a. 1552. Leland, Itin. (1907), II. 145. The streates have streamlettes of springes almost yn every one renning.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 330. The river Medway branching itself into five streamlets.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, I. 313. And hence the Streamlets seek the terrass Shade.
1799. Wordsw., Fountain, 21. No check, no stay, this Streamlet fears; How merrily it goes!
c. 1820. S. Rogers, Italy, Feluca, 15. A streamlet, clear and full, ran to the sea.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, x. 210. Our path … crossed several streamlets.
transf. and fig. 1855. Bailey, Mystic, 5. Time’s sand-dry streamlet through its glassy straits Flowed ceaseless.
1862. Smiles, Engineers, III. 263. Horizontal tubes, through which the heated air passed in streamlets.
1867. Proctor, in Intell. Observer, Aug., 2. The Milky Way again subdivides, a branch running off at an angle of 20°, and losing itself in a narrow streamlet.
1871. Sir W. W. Hunter, in Skrine, Life (1901), 196. I found great difficulty in getting at the streamlet of fact in a desert of verbiage.
1874. C. A. Davis, in Spurgeon, Treas. David, IV. 350. The streamlet of practical daily effort.
