Use brook in a sentence
Sentences starting with brook
- Brook trout, from Sierra Nevadas. [5]
- Brook Farm, 159, 164-166, 189, 191. [6]
Sentences ending with brook
- His conversation with those gentlemen flowed on as sweetly and peacefully and musically as any summer brook. [5]
- Mr. Cooke led them to a bar he had improvised by the brook. [9]
- He moved about self-consciously, awkwardly, until at last there was a sudden silence over by the brook. [11]
- He was just in the act of throwing a clod at a mud-turtle which was sunning itself on a small log in the brook. [5]
- The house was full of books, mostly queer books, "in languages nobody knows what," as Aunt Hepsy said, which made Philip open his eyes when he went there one day to take to the old man a memorandum-book which he had found on Mill Brook. [4]
- He spied us from his elevated position before we had crossed the brook. [9]
- Fay littered the court with Jane's books and papers, and other toys her fancy improvised, and many a strange craft went floating down the little brook. [13]
- The facts had been slowly, quietly gathered, one by one, like pebbles from the empty channel of a brook. [6]
More example sentences with the word brook in them
- I was satisfied with my Red Brook Seedlings. [9]
- A romantic gorge, with a brook flowing in its bottom, approaching Palmerston North. [5]
- In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon Grabern. [2]
- Before we started, we stooped beside a brook that leaped lightly down the ravine, and drank a little rum and water. [11]
- At this point we have an episode: Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
- Beyond and below was the spring-house, and there was the place where the brook dived under the ruined wall,--where Dorothy had wound into her hair the lilies of the valley before she sailed for London. [9]
- Now a witness was called who testified that he found Muff Potter washing in the brook, at an early hour of the morning that the murder was discovered, and that he immediately sneaked away. [5]
- Every running brook urged me to hasten, and the lofty mountains seemed like jealous barriers. [10]
- The road wound upwards, by the valley of a brook, through the hills, now wooded, now spread with pastures that shone golden green in the evening light, the herds gathering at the gate-bars. [9]
- A brook came tumbling down the mountain-side and skirted the most thickly settled portion of the village. [6]
- Comyn was taken to his house in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, in Sir Charles's coach, whither I insisted upon preceding him. [9]
- She sent off to Brook Street for Lord Comyn, who came at once, and, in half an hour the dear fellow was set out for Dover. [9]
- All this took time, for the Mississippi is not a French brook, like the Seine, the Loire, and those other rivulets, but is a real river nearly a mile wide. [5]
- And time and time have I walked from here to Brook Street without recognizing a step of the way, lifted clear out of myself by the sight of her devotion. [9]
- Making our way through the low growth and bushes of the valley, we came into a fine open forest, watered by a noisy brook, and after an hour's easy going reached the serious ascent. [4]
- Its banks, and those of the brook are respectably adorned with blooming oleanders, but the unutterable beauty of the spot will not throw a well-balanced man into convulsions, as the Syrian books of travel would lead one to suppose. [5]
- The quiet of the woodland, the song of the birds, the tumbling brook, the smell of the rich earth, replenishing its strength from the gorgeous falling leaves, had soothed him. [11]
- I sang in the trees beside the brook, and my voice was even a little better than in the days when Dennis first came to my father's house. [11]
- And then, as the sunlight was filtering through and turning the brook from blue to crystal, we came upon the Celebrity. [9]
- Somehow or other, the rootlets, which are its tentacles, find out that there is a brook at a moderate distance from the trunk of the tree, and they make for it with all their might. [6]
- For six miles the road runs by Doe River, here a pretty brook shaded with laurel and rhododendron, and a few cultivated patches of ground, and infrequent houses. [4]
- When I cross the old bridge where the brook overflowed, She will flash full in sight at the turn of the road. [6]
- We procured for the horses a light meal of green oats, and for our own dinner we drank at the brook and the Professor produced a few sonnets. [4]
- On Saturday morning, the heat being unusual, they ended their game by common consent at the fourth hole and descended a wood road to Silver Brook, to a spot which they had visited once before and had found attractive. [9]
- She herself had taught him to brook no restraint, to follow impetuously his loves and hates, and endurance in these things was moulded in every line of his finely cut features. [9]
- Shortly after, we struck the roaring brook that issues from the Pass to the south. [4]
- We could not stop to rest two or three hours out from our camp, of course, albeit the brook was beside us. [5]
- Come, let us speed--my impatience will not brook further delay. [5]
- In the distance, Silver Brook was gleaming amidst the meadows. [9]
- Old Nonna had shed many tears during good Pepe's speech, and he was trying to comfort her when George suddenly sat up, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands, stretched himself, and then, agile as a brook trout, sprang out of bed. [10]
- She left the sawmill on John's Brook to her right; she turned into a wood-path. [4]
- I-I was always satisfied with my Red Brook Seedlings, Sam. [9]
- Turning from the road, through a lane and crossing a shallow brook, we reached the dwelling of one of the original McGregors, or at least as good as an original. [4]
- Tom had been restless and full of chafings and repinings; conscience-smitten, too--he could not meet Amy Lawrence's eye, he could not brook her loving gaze. [5]
- But I always regretted that I did not take along a fishline, just to "throw in" the brook we passed. [4]
- Now he was prepared for the fury of a jaundiced, self-willed old man, who could ill brook being thwarted. [11]
- These were the periodical just spoken of as a possibility realized, and the industrial community known as Brook Farm. [6]
- She knew every path and hilltop within miles of here, and every brook and spring, and she used to talk about that mountain just as if it was alive. [9]
- Ripley, George: a party, 149; The Dial, 159; Brook Farm, 164-166; on Emerson's limitations, 380. [6]
- As we dipped our faces in the brook the next morning my client laughed softly to himself between the gasps, and I knew that he had in mind the last consummate touch to his successful enterprise. [9]
- Snaring "suckers" out of the deep meadow brook used to be about as good as any that I had. [4]
- Now the murmur of the brook was perceptible, and its tiny sound touched the thirsty souls of the travellers as rain falls on dry grass. [10]
- Beside the shore of the brook sat a young man, about eighteen or twenty, who seemed to be reading some favorite book, and who had a remarkably noble countenance--eyes which betrayed more than a common mind. [5]
- Despite the protests of Banks and Fitzpatrick, and of Mr. Fox (who arrived early, not having been to bed at all), I jumped into a chaise and drove to Brook Street. [9]
- For a quarter of an hour she went on at a slapping pace, clearing the moose-bushes with bound after bound, flying over the fallen logs, pausing neither for brook nor ravine. [4]
- Orion, however, had not looked as though he meant to brook such an insult to his father or let it pass unpunished. [10]
- It owes its name to this brook, which rises in our own meadows, and I suppose you would like to know why our village is called Keilhau? [10]
- In a moment more I was in a brook newly formed by the rain. [4]
- But the next moment her vinaigrette was rolling down the bank towards the brook, and I was after it. [9]
- The desire in me to which my father had referred, which would brook no opposition, which twisted and squirmed until it found its way to its object? [9]
- I suppose a man who lived within hearing of a murmuring brook would find his life shortened if a sawmill were set up within earshot of his dwelling. [6]
- Beyond that, and lower still, a lilied pond widened out of the sluggish brook with a cool and rustic spring-house at one end. [9]
- It seemed to Janet indeed a torrent as she clung to the side of the gatehouse as one might cling to the steep bank of a mountain brook after a cloud-burst. [9]
- I threw pebbles into the brook, and wished I had held my tongue. [9]
- There was a hill pasture, down on one side of which ran a small brook, and this pasture was full of woodchuck-holes. [4]
- Thereafter he led her horse to the brook, which floweth through the woods down to the meadow-land, and bid her ride along in the water so far as she might, to put the hounds off the scent. [10]
- At other times, he would entreat him--not unkindly--to be gone, and would not brook him near. [12]
- To his delight he found a tiny brook of swift-running water. [13]
- That day when he crossed it, in advance of his company, he was heard to say in a low voice, as if greeting some object of which he was shyly fond, "So, little brook, do I meet you once more? [4]
- The passions which had tortured it and driven it hither and thither through a wayward life had fled: the power gone that would brook no guiding hand, that had known no master. [9]
- But as he had the brook Cherith, and the bread and flesh in the morning and the bread and flesh in the evening which the ravens brought him, so she had the river and her secret store of books. [6]
- Behind it he had made a dam in the brook, and put in a water wheel that ran his workshop. [9]
- And verily I had good cause to be thankful and of good cheer; I was in health as sound as a trout in the brook, and had good chances for making the most of those humble gifts and powers wherewith I was blessed. [10]
- When she had gone a couple of miles, and the dogs were evidently gaining again, she crossed the broad, deep brook, climbed the steep left bank, and fled on in the direction of the Mount-Marcy trail. [4]
- And now you give me Red Brook Seedlings? [9]
- It is, as Franklin, in 1763, wrote to Mary Stevenson in London, "that petty island which, compared to America, is but a stepping-stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one's shoes dry. [4]
- A silence, except for the music of the brook over the broken dam. [9]
- Some vague longing for such a refuge was in Cynthia's heart as she gazed upon that silent place, and then the waters had already begun to run westward--the waters of Tumble Down brook, which flowed into Coniston Water above Brampton. [9]
- The brook that flowed from the spring to the sea ran beneath it, and the maid-servants were in the habit of washing the household linen in its swift current. [10]
- The Brook Farm experiment was an index of the state of mind among one section of the Reformers of whom he was writing. [6]
- The Upper Lake discharges itself into the Lower by a brook which winds through a mile and a half of swamp and woods. [4]
- It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi. [5]
- None of his companions approached him, for each felt that what was passing in his soul at this moment would brook no careless intrusion. [10]
- Long after the camp had gone to bed, I lay on the pine-needles above the brook, shielded from the wind by a break in the slope, and thought of the strange happenings of that day. [9]
- At length we came to the damp shade where the brook dived under the corner of the wall. [9]
- We crossed the brook which furnished David the stone that killed Goliah, and no doubt we looked upon the very ground whereon that noted battle was fought. [5]
- I left the brook at a tannery, and a most singular fellow was in the shed shovelling bark. [9]
- He bathed his bleeding feet in the brook which flowed then where Farringdon Street now is; rested a few moments, then passed on, and presently came upon a great space with only a few scattered houses in it, and a prodigious church. [5]
- This is his benevolent summing up:-- "The founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in. [6]
- The bubbling brook belonged to the wild, rushing, mighty river. [10]
- He was standing at the very margin of the brook, hemmed in by cliffs, and was bending down to it, but before he had moistened his lips he drew back: just because he was so thirsty he resolved to deny himself drink. [10]
- The lake rose and fell with a mighty rhythm, and the little brook hurried madly over the stones to join it. [9]
- Behind the hotel, and across the brawling brook, was another level-topped, wooded range exactly like it. [5]
- We missed him an hour from the camp, and then found him some distance away, by the edge of a brook, and with no umbrella to protect him from the fierce sun. [5]
- You see, the alpenstock is his trophy; his name is burned upon it; and if he has climbed a hill, or jumped a brook, or traversed a brickyard with it, he has the names of those places burned upon it, too. [5]
- As he spun along behind Pepper on the Leith road that climbed Willow Brook on the afternoon he had made the appointment, Austen smiled to himself over his anticipations, and yet---being human-let his fancy play. [9]
- They were to a certain extent synchronous,--the Magazine beginning in July, 1840, and expiring in April, 1844; Brook Farm being organized in 1841, and breaking up in 1847. [6]
- We had built a camp for the night, in the heart of the woods, high up on John's Brook and near the foot of Mount Marcy: I can see the lovely spot now. [4]
- Finally we reached a brook, sneaking along beneath the underbrush as though fearing to show itself, and we followed its course. [9]
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