They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding
rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh.
Meantime, after much splashing, Robin had gotten to his feet and stood gazing about him all bewildered, the water running from him in pretty little
rills. At last he shot the water out of his ears and spat some out of his mouth, and, gathering his scattered wits together, saw the stout Friar standing on the bank and laughing.
Down the sides of every great rib of pure ice poured limpid
rills in gutters carved by their own attrition; better still, wherever a rock had lain, there was now a bowl-shaped hole, with smooth white sides and bottom of ice, and this bowl was brimming with water of such absolute clearness that the careless observer would not see it at all, but would think the bowl was empty.
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.
It was a place to quote Alastor in, and nothing but a bad memory prevented my affrighting the oaks and
rills with declamation.
They kept along it for two days, during which, from the contribution of many
rills and brooks, it gradually swelled into a small river.
Turn, O miserable, 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.
Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring
rills in a thaw.
He paused a moment, letting his eyes drop from the muffled head of his guest, down along the row of moldy buttons confining the blanket overcoat, to the greenish cowhide boots powdered with snow, which had begun to melt and run along the floor in little
rills. He took an inventory of his guest, and appeared satisfied.
Sparsit's white stockings were of many colours, green predominating; prickly things were in her shoes; caterpillars slung themselves, in hammocks of their own making, from various parts of her dress;
rills ran from her bonnet, and her Roman nose.
Bhaer considered her the most beautiful woman living, and she found him more `Jove-like" than ever, though his hatbrim 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.
A vine loaded with grapes was trained and grew luxuriantly about the mouth of the cave; there were also four running
rills of water in channels cut pretty close together, and turned hither and thither so as to irrigate the beds of violets and luscious herbage over which they flowed.
