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Brook
"Brook" in a Sentence (25 examples)
His pride would not brook such insults.
We can hear a brook murmuring.
She watched the children playing in the brook.
The fallen tree arrested the current of a brook.
Did he dare to jump the brook?
He didn't dare to jump the brook.
She strode over the brook.
In my village, there is a small, narrow footbridge over a brook.
He dared not jump over the brook.
‘Without burning thirst, what is the brook for?’ Arkadź Kulašoŭ asks in his verse.
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brook no refusal
I will not brook any disobedience.
I will brook no impertinence.
how shall I brook to be the first cause of difference between a father and son, to whom the averted look and the harsh word have been hitherto unknown?
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
The norm is submission to the supposed iron laws of technological inevitability that brook no impediment.
The faith in destiny and moral certainty claimed by would-be liberators brooks no resistance, and to register objections to their devotion is to be seen as the enemy of rightness.
On just the first day of the war, more than 1,300 protesters across Russia, many of them chanting “No to war,” were detained, The Times reported, quoting a rights group. That’s no small number in a country where Putin brooks little dissent.
Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?
The girl’s spirit would brook a husband under no such conditions: she was not minded to run forward because Pen chose to hold out the handkerchief, and her tone, in reply to Arthur, showed her determination to be independent.
empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
"Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
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