Rivulets

And what they at first thought was long dark hair was actually blood pouring in rivulets from their scalp.

Clear rivulets of water chattered and burbled from beneath this verdant tangle, licked with streamers of algae and moss and more beautifully arranged than any ornamental garden.

Another unique feature of this coast along the West Bengal-Bangladesh belt is that it is crisscrossed by several rivers and rivulets, where the elevation of the islands is 4 to 5 metres above sea level.

Police arranged pickets on the National Highways as many rivulets were overflowing on the main roads.

Little rivulets of prior drainage are engraved, spiderweb-like, in the yellow dirt.

Nevertheless, it has recharged the underground water table and increased the flow of rivers, streams and rivulets.

Councillors pointed out at the non-functioning of wet wells, pumpsets fitted to them and overflowing sewage to rivulets and storm water drains.

Everything gave us delight: the boiling heat we tried to beat by reading ourselves into a delicious doze, the cascading downpour that thrilled us just watching the puddles it formed on the street or in rivulets running down the verandah.

The 3 steps indicate Calvary and the rivulets, channels of grace flowing from the Cross.

The other two river systems are dependent on the monsoons and shrink into rivulets during the dry season.

The plain around is extremely fertile; the soil is middling fat; but it is watered by several rivulets, which flow into the Jordan.