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Example sentences for "brooks"

  • It is fed by springs beneath, and by a few brooks flowing into it.

  • Across the Jordan rose the Eastern Tableland, with its mountains and valleys and brooks and cities even as far as Damascus.

  • Sticklebacks build elaborate nests in the brooks and defend them with spirit.

  • The sunfish or "pumpkin-seed" lives in quiet corners of the brooks and rivers, preferably under a log or at the root of an old stump.

  • In the brooks most fishes are dark olive or greenish above and white below.

  • I've heard of fearful winds and darkness that come there; The little brooks that seem all pastime and all play, When they are angry, roar like lions for their prey.

  • Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  • All that we know of the circumstances of this epidemic is that the summer was one of excessive drought, that wells and brooks were dried up, and that the Thames ran so low as to make the tide at London Bridge not merely brackish but salt.

  • In course of time all the brooks of London were covered in, even the Fleet dyke itself, which used to float barges as far as Holborn bridge; but who shall say that they were more wholesome thereafter, although they were underground?

  • They sifted in gold, they glittered in green, they silvered the clear brooks that babbled down the hills.

  • It is not too high praise to say that Mr. Brooks has overcome all these difficulties without the sacrifice of a single characteristic of Richter's genius.

  • In the spring of the year, herrings come up in such abundance into their brooks and fords to spawn that it is almost impossible to ride through without treading on them.

  • There is likewise great plenty of other fish all the summer long and almost in every part of the rivers and brooks there are found of different kinds.

  • Sella still loved to haunt the springs and brooks as in her cheerful childhood.

  • The nymphs who lived each in her own tree were called dryads; those who dwelt in the springs and brooks were naiads; while those whose home was in the rocks and hills were oreads.

  • It was her delight to wander up the stream, tracing to the source in the mountains each of the little brooks that fed the larger one.

  • In this part of their walk there was a good deal of swamp land, and a number of brooks to cross.

  • In the spring these brooks make quite a show; but they get low in the summer, and generally dry up in August, unless it's a very wet season.

  • On it was represented a beautiful pleasure ground with brooks and interlacing paths, with trees and flowers of springtime.

  • On the southwestern slope are combined the luxuriant vegetation of tropical lowlands with virgin forests of fir and pine, and in meadows and beside shaded brooks grow flowers of strange beauty.

  • John Brooks had been engaged as a sawyer at Cloudy Bay.

  • He had helped her, and she was ready to help him to the limit of her power.

  • His subtle efforts to draw Haddan into a discussion of the princess and her household resulted unsatisfactorily.

  • He laughed and absently patted the hilt of his sword.

  • The driver, a stolid creature, seemingly indifferent to all that was going on, alone remained at his post.

  • Mr. Brooks says, "I have known impressionable women, touched by his sad face and his gentle bearing, to go away in tears.

  • Once Mr. Brooks "found him sitting in his chair so collapsed and weary that he did not look up or speak when I addressed him.

  • Entering the President's office late one evening, Mr. Brooks noticed the actor sitting in the waiting-room.

  • Mr. Noah Brooks relates that in company with an old friend of Lincoln's he was waiting in one of the family rooms of the White House.

  • In the mountain-forests of the middle Rhine one often finds large dross-heaps on sequestered hill tops, far from brooks and water courses.

  • On the north side are pastures and plain meadows, with brooks running through them, turning water-mills with a pleasant noise.

  • There are small sandy beaches wherever the brooks run into the sea.

  • There was no question of losing the road; for the road was a Devon lane, narrow and deep, built by the ancient Britons, so everybody says, to give them protection as they went down to the brooks for water.

  • It unites with its own the history of every log-stream in Laurentian or Himalayan forest, as it formerly linked the beaver-dammed brooks of wintry Canada with the current of trade following the Gulf Stream to Europe.

  • Last December, when Captain Brooks had attained the distinction of the longest continuous trench service of any officer of the Canadian army, he was offered a more restful position behind the lines, but he declined it.

  • Phillips Brooks and myself were among the clerical contingent, with such Americans abroad as Colonel Tom Ochiltree, Buffalo Bill, General and Mrs. Williams, A.

  • My mind goes back to the time when Bishop Brooks and myself were neighbours in Philadelphia.

  • Brooks several days before his death, dreamt he saw the body of a rifleman without a head: this apparition appeared three or four nights successively in his dreams.

  • At length she fell in with a small stream, which she rightly judged to be one of the brooks running into Black River, and which, from what she knew of the course of that river, she supposed would lead nearly in the direction she sought to go.

  • RUSH: I cannot help but express a word of gratitude and appreciation to my friend Mr. Brooks in helping me out of a serious difficulty that I had in connection with walnut culture at Lancaster.

  • Brooks on Some Insects that Injure Nuts 101 Top Working Hickories, Dr.


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