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"Rill" Quotes from Famous Books

... I had a quiet tomb, Beside a little rill; Where birds, and bees, and butterflies, Would sing ...

— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... genius the sterility; Mighty projects countermanded; Rash ambition, brokenhanded; Puny man and scentless rose Tormenting Pan to double the dose. Rebuild or ruin: either fill Of vital force the wasted rill, Or tumble all again in heap To weltering Chaos and ...

— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... an English landscape even in mid-winter. Large tracts of smiling verdure contrasted with the dazzling whiteness of the shaded slopes and hollows. Every sheltered bank, on which the broad rays rested, yielded its silver rill of cold and limpid water, glittering through the dripping grass; and sent up slight exhalations to contribute to the thin haze that hung just above the surface of the earth. There was something truly ...

— Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving • Washington Irving

... her foot in time to the rhythm. She was not sure whether a rill was a fountain or a stream, so she decided, as there was no dictionary convenient, to think of it as like the creek where it crossed the road at the foot ...

— Mr. Pat's Little Girl - A Story of the Arden Foresters • Mary F. Leonard

... a stay of twenty minutes, had buttoned up his great-coat again and pulled down his hat, and told Mrs. Chuff that there was no use in his remaining any longer, when, all of a sudden, a little rill of blood began to trickle from the lancet-cut ...

— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu

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