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rivulets

n. (plural of rivulet English)

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Rivulets is the nom de plume of minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson.

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Hatch stared, barely able to breathe, he heard a clink, then a rush, as a rotten sack burst and a stream of gold doubloons poured out, running in rivulets among the piled treasures.

Dew dripped from the overhanging branches, glistened on the white wildflowers gleaming in the hedgerows, ran in little rivulets down the grassy banks at the sides of the lane.

The forest sagged with the rain, each leaf dripping, rivulets running in to streams, streams running down to the lake.

As the army made its disorganized retreat, flowing off across the sand in gradually dwindling streams, a black lake draining into rivulets and animated puddles, the colonel lost interest in the corpse and went pattering over the boards and beneath the metal door and up the leg of a barstool, then onto a trouserleg and higher, until he was gazing at a pair of enormous eyes directly above him.

Gabriel finally looked up, his hair running in rivulets down his high forehead.

Here, the culture line was not a single stream, but a myriad of rivulets spread over the wide boundary between stagnation and chaos.

The rivulets of water seemed to be trickling faster now, and Hatch guessed it must be raining heavily up top.

She was soaked to the skin, rain running in thin rivulets from her chin, elbows, and hands.

Kaneka, and we hung back accordingly as she greeted her people, majestic as a queen, tears running in rivulets down her stern, dark face as she ordered the treasure-chests thrown open and her goods dispersed.

It was halted only by a series of muddy rivulets which stood across its path and acted as a firebreak.

In the darkness, the sluggish rivulets were not distinguishable from open patches of terrain, and two of the shipmen were lost by drowning in the slow mud drains before the leader called a halt and decided to remain in the same spot until daybreak.

He became a much smaller, broken figure draped in rivulets of melted metal, a figure that grew ever smaller as jags of lightning leaped off his body and dissipated.