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  • n  a small stream

  • Instead of a mighty torrent "deep and wide," as the gospel songs proclaim, much of the river is a thin rivulet of brown slime largely obscured by reeds.
  • On the flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles .
  • On top of that, the "California" Corvette sucked its pitiful rivulet of horsepower through the straw of a torque-sapping three-speed automatic transmission.
News & Articles

  • Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve is really wild
    Editor's note: Each Sunday throughout the summer, Lancaster Newspapers interns report on a hiking trail they experienced firsthand.Tucquan Creek's rugged beauty has been lauded for more than 100 years."Here the stream is a gentle rivulet, there a miniature whirlpool, and again it rushes through a ro...
    July 7, 2013 - Lancaster Online
Quotes

  • President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in GMA news.tv
    In a Declaration of Trust he issued on October 16, 2007, Mr Arroyo said he only bought the property as a trustee and that the land remains "the exclusive property of Rivulet."
  • Bandaru Dattatreya in Hindu
    The accident spot has neither a river nor a rivulet, it was a small culvert which was washed away in flash floods following breaching of two irrigations tanks,BJP national secretary, Bandaru Dattatreya, who was also former Minister of State...

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