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1. You'll come across a little rill trickling over moss and rocks, thinking it's pristine, but sure as anything there's some shepherd upstream who's squatted down next to it
2. The first stroke already sent a rill of electricity through her skin, down her neck and into her back
3. At length Uncas, whose activity had enabled him to achieve his portion of the task the soonest, raked the earth across the turbid little rill which ran from the spring, and diverted its course into another channel
4. The whole party now proceeded, following the course of the rill, keeping anxious eyes on the regular impressions
5. More than half a mile was passed, before the rill rippled close around the base of an extensive and dry rock
6. —Or again, note the meanderings of some purling rill as it babbles on its way, tho' quarrelling with the stony obstacles, to the tumbling waters of Neptune's blue domain, 'mid mossy banks, fanned by gentlest zephyrs, played on by the glorious sunlight or 'neath the shadows cast o'er its pensive bosom by the overarching leafage of the giants of the forest
7. The entire house was tiled in golden marble, and the center of this room’s floor was divided by a rill
8. Hence he determined to abandon himself to the stream of feeling, and perhaps was surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was
9. passed through another gateway, high-arched and broad, and a rill ran out
10. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground
11. To listen to the rippling rill
12. By the old lime-tree or the rill,
13. 'Tis now the hillock now the rill
14. While she was scratching, Malásha came up and began to help her: she picked up a chip and widened the rill
15. The peasants had begun to fight, just as the water went down the rill toward the place where the old woman was trying to separate the men
16. The girls ran, one from one side of the rill, the other from the other side
17. The girls were running and laughing at a chip which was bobbing up and down the rill
18. Imagine, then, natural meadows, of various dimensions, and of every figure which the imagination can conceive, with here and there a gentle rise of ground, decked with a few scattering trees or a thick cluster of them, and bearing a tall, coarse grass, which is thin on the rises, but on the lower grounds thick and luxuriant; imagine, also, a rill of a reddish colour scarcely meandering through ground a little lower than the surrounding plain, and you will have a very correct idea of the appearance of these barrens
1. Eve was rilled with a sudden fear
1. The water cascaded, then disappeared down the sloping hillside through trees and mossy rills, a watery choir of changing volumes, sounds, and moods that brought joy and peace to my heart
2. In every state of practical, busy movement, the rills of civilization, Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by magic, The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field,
3. Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed
4. Bhaer considered her the most beautiful woman living, and she found him morèJove-like" than ever, though his hat-brim was quite limp with the little rills trickling thence upon his shoulders (for he held the umbrella all over Jo), and every finger of his gloves needed mending
5. hard-hearted animal, turn, I say, those timorous owl's eyes upon these of mine that are compared to radiant stars, and thou wilt see them weeping trickling streams and rills, and tracing furrows, tracks, and paths over the fair fields of my cheeks
6. The piano rills through its finishing measures, and then the static wallops back
7. Here and there it passed over other rills, running down
8. homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills
9. On a rainy day, even in a gently undulating country, we see the effects of subaerial degradation in the muddy rills which flow down every slope
10. At length the sun's rays have attained the right angle, and warm winds blow up mist and rain and melt the snowbanks, and the sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which the traveller picks his way from islet to islet, cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off
11. It is almost identical with that, for in the growing days of June, when the rills are dry, the grass-blades are their channels, and from year to year the herds drink at this perennial green stream, and the mower draws from it betimes their winter supply
12. Even in Calidas' drama of Sacontala, we read of "rills dyed yellow with the golden dust of the lotus