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    1. in literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972


    2. A little shallow brook flowed around the site on the north and east


    3. As the dark approached once again they found a keltoid clump that was on an island in the brook, which was now a stream


    4. The fireplace was between the front door and the village end of the brook


    5. I squelched through swarms of midges and climbed through tall grasses and even jumped a surprising brook all without confrontation


    6. There was a camp fire going around the bend in the brook and they could hear voices


    7. They could look out over the little brook that wound thru the flat of Yoonbarla Vale


    8. When it was built, the brook ran to the edge of the patio stones, so it had dropped at least three feet in the three and a half thousand years this house had stood here


    9. The view of the fields and the brook and the mountainside in Wescarp was better than these plain block walls


    10. His walls were festooned with screens and he had a brook driving an escapement driving a big tracking mirror on a suntower collecting light that was conducted thru thick fiber bundles to his components with outlets all over the room, most of them in use

    11. A brook carved fanciful shapes into the rock, and he was admiring it from it’s mossy bank when he came to a thick plank spanning it


    12. Of course now he knew that the row of trees along the brook are houses lining the street, facts that were invisible in the view the last time he’d seen it


    13. “It’s a good thing there’s a brook down the bottom of this hill


    14. She grabbed the lunch sack and his knife and went down the hill toward the brook


    15. By now he had his tackle tied to a big root across the brook ready to pull the wheels around


    16. Two great living shaftwoods as the pillars between the street and the brook


    17. Beyond here the street widened out so the brook gurgled thru a wide green and there was a wide street on either side


    18. I found after I came about two miles up, that the tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little brook of running water, very fresh and good; but this being the dry season, there was hardly any water in some parts of it—at least not enough to run in any stream, so as it could be perceived


    19. On the banks of this brook I found many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass; and on the rising parts of them, next to the higher grounds, where the water, as might be supposed, never overflowed, I found a great deal of tobacco, green, and growing to a great and very strong stalk


    20. The next day, the sixteenth, I went up the same way again; and after going something further than I had gone the day before, I found the brook and the savannahs cease, and the country become more woody than before

    21. Klowa and Luray found a place out in the back of a keda field on the far side of the clump of jungle beyond the brook


    22. They did not brook any arguments


    23. It was separated from the tiny path that served this side of Yoonbarla Brook by a high wall of trellis choked with all the spice vines they'd had on it since she'd owned the place


    24. They had almost three acres of land down in Yoonbarla Vale, the little finger of the great valley that followed Yoonbarla Brook up towards the falls for over three miles


    25. Their farm was in a meander of the brook, two thirds of the way up the vale and on the steeper, sunnier, south side


    26. The brook is about thirty feet wide and three or four feet deep at this point


    27. No one piped water on this side of the brook, so they had a tank and a new rotary pump with wind-wheel that Dara had put in to replace the old lever-squeak thing that must have been teased along since sometime in the 40's


    28. But as she crossed the brook, the bright sun showed Nerissa an ill omen


    29. Late into the afternoon, Nerissa stopped to rest at a brook that bubbled down the slope


    30. She was in luck, because the lane she traveled came to a large cave not far from the brook

    31. industrial buildings and modest new estates, plus a watercourse that at first couldn't decide if it was a brook or a drain but soon became wider and


    32. He loves to hear the little brook a-


    33. In France, the great easily submit to a considerable degree of inequality in a tax which, so far as it affects them, is not a very heavy one; but could not brook the arbitrary assessment of an intendant


    34. And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine


    35. Notice that the story said that David went to the brook to pick five smooth stones


    36. A progressive (also read: liberal) stance maintains most if not all of the following propositions, and will in most cases brook no opposition to them


    37. Directly in front of him chuckled the brook, about two metres across, and thirty millimetres deep


    38. He went stalking farther up the trail by the babbling brook


    39. Looking forward to seeing you this weekend at Holly Brook House, directions given below, bring a guest, etc


    40. He mentioned the name of a woman called Susan Blackburn and Norman Brook as having something to do with the danger

    41. "Tonight, I think we should leave the forest for the safety of the brook


    42. They were heading for the safety of the brook, far away from the forest


    43. 40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he


    44. 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind


    45. abide at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him, and when David came near to


    46. to them, They be gone over the brook of water; And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem


    47. destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron


    48. 4 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there


    49. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook


    50. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land














































    1. curiosity that brooked no flight or fancy


    2. It was still a struggle to have That Career, even though achieved in a meritocracy that brooked no barriers of social class


    3. Soffen turned away looking at some distant place known only to her, and when she finally responded, it was with an insistence that brooked no argument


    4. She opened her mouth to scream and, at once, strong hands that brooked no gainsaying picked her up and held her tight


    5. “Fetch rope,” he said, in a tone that brooked no disagreement


    6. “Really? You can sit here now and tell me, with honesty in your heart and in spite of your dreams last night, that the Lord of the Lammas Lands would have brooked a refusal from you and let you live? You could have walked away from his bed and still continued to serve him, unharmed and whole?”


    7. The look in his eyes brooked no refusal, so I slipped it into my wallet


    8. was repeated over and over in a harsh voice that brooked no refusal until, with astonishing docility, both men and women, no longer in lust, wandered with tired perplexed faces to the nearest mat and returned to their apartments


    9. a tone that brooked no doubt of their veracity


    10. As he helped Falcon finish strapping her ankle to the splint with the ace bandage, he spoke up in a tone which brooked no argument

    11. Ignoring her negative responses, Joel firmly overruled her, in a tone which brooked no argument


    12. Conrad also informed her in a tone of voice which brooked no argument, that he wanted to see her again, at the end of the two weeks, so he could re-examine her ankle, assess how it was mending, and then replace the temporary cast he’d just put on her leg, with a permanent walking one


    13. As he walked, Joel continued to talk to her, using a matter-of-fact, but implacable tone of voice which brooked no argument


    14. The man’s regally held shoulders turned as he faced me and said in a voice that brooked no arguing, “On the contrary it is of great importance, what you have accomplished


    15. All this, you will remember, was put forward in a tone that brooked no contradiction


    1. ’ She said, her tone brooking no argument


    2. "No!" I was brooking no arguments


    1. among the stones of the brooks


    2. All of the land that any of them had purchased with their bits of metal was well into the rural land, the only small holds were right along the brooks out here, the land they discussed was high on the plateaus between


    3. 1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God


    4. It was green and lush with lazy little brooks choked with lesh weed and luse


    5. Most people who were here played in the bigger pools along the brooks


    6. Like the ones Brooks and Burroughs and Tolkien and Simmons wrote? What if there actually could be people at other worlds?"


    7. There were brooks of fresh water running throughout the island and, with storms such as the one that delivered me there, I should have scarcely been surprised


    8. Henrietta was wearing her low heeled or rather flat shoes and a long skirt and a dark sweater and I was pumping along in my Brooks Brothers racing jacket


    9. 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;


    10. 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter

    11. 24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks


    12. 1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God


    13. 7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,


    14. I have had the privilege of working with Bill Brooks, who I think has invented the most powerful selling


    15. 14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,


    16. 7 For the Lord your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;


    17. In that year Phillips Brooks, Wm


    18. The words of command are spoken in a way that brooks no disagreement and he struggles to obey


    19. 7 And you shall declare to that they prepare for me groundsoil and water for I will go out in my anger against them and will cover the whole face of the Earth with the feet of my army and I will give them for a spoil to them: 8 So that their killed shall fill their valleys and brooks and the river shall be filled with their dead till it overflow: 9 And I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the Earth


    20. “But what if they are true?” Isabella says in a tone that brooks no response

    21. David Brooks in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal (May 15), titled his


    22. Garth Brooks was a super star in the music industry


    23. We drove through the Brooks Range and over the Atigun Pass without any


    24. At times the atmosphere was damp, indicating the proximity of hidden brooks


    25. They relied solely on animal trails and rows of polished stone demarcating seasonal brooks


    26. I said moo, bitch, moo! Shove your processed all beef patty cunt in my face and make me eat you out between the sheets of two powder milk biscuits as the bacon gravy cum wet-spot dries on my chin in the ambiance of Garth Brooks and GPC second hand nicotine


    27. His Presence is an intense purity, and a fiery type of devotion that brooks no


    28. Brooks as the Senior Analyst and


    29. ID/GU team fully emerged during April 2005 with HIV disease review and the analyst incharge was Cydney Brooks and Sylvia Marecki


    30. A study by Carol Brooks Gardner (1980) focused on the function of men's street

    31. Morton had told her to contact DS Colin Brooks at Solihull and find out what she could but to be cautious


    32. No further action! No reason given! DS Brooks was shepherding the case through court for the police so he was spitting blood when he was told the DPP were not going to prosecute


    33. Brooks has nothing personal against Tennant, though


    34. If anything to do with him pops up in the system Brooks gets notified straight away


    35. ‘Why does Brooks think they dropped the case?’ asked John Strait


    36. ‘Thanks for the heads-up John,’ she said, ‘As soon as you’re sure about Tennant can you let Gary Hayes know, and ask him to contact DC Colin Brooks at Solihull? He’s expecting the call


    37. The car containing DS Colin Brooks from Solihull police and his two passengers pulled into the incident room’s car park behind the church hall


    38. DS Brooks had called ahead when they were minutes away, and Detective Superintendent Demery and DC Gary Hayes were standing in the car park waiting for them as he parked up


    39. DS Brooks knew Tennant’s background


    40. ‘Fifty or sixty!’ said DS Brooks, raising his voice towards her, ‘and you expect us to believe it was for collectors!’

    41. dressed in his Brooks Brothers grey pinstriped suit with light green


    42. (The problems encountered in the development of the OS/360 are legendary, and are described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month - a book that has become a classic of software engineering


    43. Wait for the great debate between Richard Dawkins and William Lane Craig (who I am not a huge fan of) or Daniel Dennet and some missional church leader like Rice Brooks or K


    44. I passed by Faneuil Hall Marketplace, which was a melting pot of designer labels, including the safari stock, the classic khaki persuasion and the Brooks Brothers and Sisters who strolled along with their hands in their pockets anx-234


    45. Brooks Brothers was


    46. Jotbathah is described as “a land of brooks of water” and was


    47. Several minutes later after reaching one of the small, slow moving, babbling brooks which ran through the backside of their property, Paul began to hear the distinct crunch crunch crunch crunch sound of a good size, four-legged animal heading in his direction


    48. Brooks abruptly interjected before he had a chance to finish what he was about to say


    49. Brooks offered Mrs


    50. Brooks said, shaking Ellen’s hand












































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    Synonyms for "brook"

    brook creek abide bear digest endure put up stand stick out stomach suffer support tolerate put up with submit to branch burn rill rivulet run runlet

    "brook" definitions

    a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)


    put up with something or somebody unpleasant