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Definition of Riverets
1. riveret [n] - See also: riveret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riverets
Literary usage of Riverets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"Yet the south side is not without brooks and riverets, which empty themselves
into the Sea; yea, ... Neither do the brooks and riverets premised give ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The Hand is watered with very many other Rivers, and riverets and Springs without
number, or names, but those that give or take names of the Villages and ..."
3. A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1895)
"Azure riverets branched. Drayton uses the same phrase in The Baron's War, cvi,
56, 2 : " Whose violet veins in branched riverets flow." 196 14. Prevented. ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"The Hand is watered with very many other Rivers, and riverets and Springs without
number, or names, but those that give or take names of the Villages and ..."
5. A General History of New England, from the Discovery to MDCLXXX.: From the by William Hubbard (1848)
"Yet the south side is not without brooks and ||riverets,|| which empty ...
Neither do the brooks and || riverets|| premised, give way to the frost in winter ..."
6. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"The Hand is watered with very many other Rivers, and riverets and Springs without
number, or names, but those that give or take names of the Villages and ..."
7. A Brief Description of New York: Formerly Called New Netherlands, with the by Daniel Denton (1845)
"... yet the South-side is not without Brooks and riverets, which empty themselves
into the Sea; yea, you shall scarce travel a mile, but you shall meet with ..."
8. Caledonia: Or, A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain, from by George Chalmers (1890)
"The river now assumes the name of the Dee, which seems to be much discoloured by
the mosses that supply it with many riverets, and which appears to ..."
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