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Example sentences for "brook"

Lexicographically close words:
brooding; broodingly; broodings; broods; broody; brooked; brooklet; brooklets; broom; brooms
  1. Little Friend the Song Sparrow had tucked his head under his wing and gone to sleep among the alders along the Laughing Brook and Redwing the Blackbird had done the same thing among the bulrushes.

  2. From over in the Green Meadows rose the clear lilt of Carol the Meadow Lark, and among the alders just where the Laughing Brook ran into the Smiling Pool a flood of happiness was pouring from the throat of Little Friend the Song Sparrow.

  3. Accordingly Fra Giovanni entered the wood, and fared on by the side of a brook that ran clear and singing on its way.

  4. Thou art its dayspring, and the song of birds, and the water-brook flowing from the hills?

  5. Brook that I kneel above; Brook of my love.

  6. From Lord Frederick's chambers he went straight to Colonel Tempest's lodgings in Brook Street.

  7. When the landlady in Brook Street had told him that Colonel and Captain Tempest had gone to Brighton that morning, he had been too much taken aback at the moment to think of asking for their address.

  8. It took the shape of a card with John's name on it, who had come to Brook Street to inquire after his uncle.

  9. In 1841 he joined for a few months the socialistic community at Brook Farm, but soon tired of it, and in the next year he m.

  10. Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the Narrow Seas, they into the main ocean, and thus the ashes of Wicliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.

  11. In July he removed to lodgings at Mrs. Angel's, a sack-maker in Brook Street, Holborn.

  12. The present foundation is new with the exception of the stone wall on Brook street which formed part of the original foundation.

  13. Our Indian lad tried to climb the tree, but was driven back by swarms of stinging ants; the poor little fellow slid down in a sad predicament, and plunged into the brook to free himself.

  14. About half a mile from the house where I lived, it crosses a brook flowing through a deep dell by means of a long rustic wooden bridge.

  15. Half-a-mile of this shady road brought me to a small open space on the banks of a brook or creek, on the skirts of which stood a conical hut with a very low doorway.

  16. Brook salmon, California brook, and German trout are the principal kinds raised here.

  17. After walking a long time they came to a little brook that trickled across the path, and here Ojo sat down to rest and eat something from his basket.

  18. With this she began amusing herself by leaping across the brook and back again.

  19. He got out his pail, which was a big one, and seated himself on the roadside, a grassy, comfortable spot near the brook which runs below into the pond.

  20. It fell happily upon a mellow autumn day, and as I drove out I saw the apples ripening in all the orchards along the road, and the corn was beginning to look brown, and the meadows by the brook were green with rowen.

  21. Having finished his luncheon he went down to the brook and got a drink, and then sat down comfortably with his back among the ferns of the roadside, crossed his legs, and lit his pipe.

  22. People who could not abide the idea of a cow in the kitchen gladly welcomed one into the parlor when painted in connection with the above purling brook and several shade trees.

  23. I would not undertake to describe at length the joys of brook fishing, because I tried it only once.

  24. They were speckled and had rudimentary gills and suggestions of fins, and he said they were brook trout--and I presume they were; but if they had been larger they would have been sardines.

  25. I would say that the best way to land a brook trout is to go to a restaurant and order one from a waiter in whom you have confidence.

  26. On this occasion I was chaperoned by an old, experienced brook fisherman.

  27. The old man had now turned round towards him, and as I had crossed the brook and was approaching the party from the side, I could now see the old man plainly in the full glare of the fire.

  28. As they approached the water, they saw something that looked like a large cricket jumping towards the brook as if it were going in.

  29. Garden of Olives, and had arrived at the brook of Cedron (John xviii.

  30. Mount Olivet, separated from Jerusalem by the brook of Cedron, was a Sabbath day's journey from the City (Acts i.

  31. Mine eye cannot brook the sight of him, and indeed I am in affright of him.

  32. Therewith she fell to kissing his feet; and this her fashion pleased him, so that his love for her redoubled and he became unable to brook severance from her a single hour.

  33. Now lies[454] our way along one of the margins hard; Steam rising from the rivulet forms a cloud, Which 'gainst the fire doth brook and borders guard.

  34. If this brook rises,' he was asked by me, 'Within our world, how comes it that no trace We saw of it till on this boundary?

  35. Had the brook flowed to the very edge of the Seventh Circle before tumbling down the rocky wall it is clear that they might have kept to the embankment until they were clear beyond the edge of the sand.

  36. Acquacheta: The fall of the water of the brook over the lofty cliff that sinks from the Seventh to the Eighth Circle is compared to the waterfall upon the Montone at the monastery of St. Benedict, in the mountains above Forli.

  37. The bank: Not that which confines the brook but the inner limit of the Seventh Circle, from which the precipice sinks sheer into the Eighth, and to which the embankment by which the travellers have crossed the sand joins itself on.

  38. And sure enough, the blood was streaming through his hair like a brook among underwood.

  39. Comyn was taken to his house in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, in Sir Charles's coach, whither I insisted upon preceding him.

  40. They forced him to be reminded that the nature of his wife was not a brook run dry; its leaping waters were merely turned away into another channel.

  41. Do they slit the stems and cast them into the near brook and watch them form into ringlets and floating hair--as of a water spirit?

  42. Thereupon Dave and Phil related how they had gone up the brook to the vicinity of the cliff, and there heard the words between Link and the so-called wild man.

  43. I'd like to see what this brook looks like beyond the falls.

  44. When the moving-picture manager had departed, the boys set out to fish along the brook that flowed into Mirror Lake.

  45. The cry came from the shore at a point where the brook ran into the lake, and looking in that direction, those in the rowboat saw Jessie, Laura, and Belle just emerging from behind some brushwood and rocks.

  46. I hear her laughing--hasn't she got the jolliest little giggle--like our brook when it bubbles over.

  47. Visited a family in Brook Street, where I read the twenty-first chapter of Job, and several other passages of Scripture, I made some remarks as I read, the people frequently lifting up their eyes when the name of Jesus was mentioned.

  48. Visited an old woman in Brook Street, named Brennan, who is confined to her bed.

  49. I have seen a record of a run on the Bound Brook route of four cars, ten miles in eight minutes.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abide; accept; admit; allow; bear; beck; bide; bourn; branch; brave; brook; burn; channel; condone; countenance; creek; crick; digest; disregard; endure; feel; fresh; gill; have; ignore; indulge; kill; lump; overlook; permit; persevere; race; river; rivulet; run; runnel; stand; stick; stomach; stream; subscribe; suffer; support; sustain; swallow; take; tolerate; tributary; watercourse; waterway