How To Use Brook In A Sentence

  • So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room. Moderately Shocked
  • On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game. Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season?
  • I befriended a couple of the kids, and together we built a raft that we would row down the Dodder as far as the great waterfall in Donnybrook.
  • From up stream came the babble of the brook like dainty laughter.
  • Driving from Brooklyn to Oregon next week; What weird should I espy? Boing Boing
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  • Wellbrook was a chunky, solid man in his fifties with big bushy eyebrows. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • Brooklyn itself was fine but calling 278 an expressway is a laugh. First we take Manhattan, then we..well...we go to Brooklyn.
  • Brooks found the use of the word terminate very unsettling. Act of Treason
  • The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
  • He has also worked with symphonies and chamber groups from the Brooklyn Philharmonic to Zurich's Ensemble Fur Neue Musik.
  • This was the last mill, the brook now wending its way towards the Severn at Minsterworth.
  • Then, his body was put into a barrel filled with cement, whereupon he was dumped into the ocean off Brooklyn.
  • This Greek congregation afterwards bought a church in Brooklyn (St. Elias, 1892), and there was no Ruthenian church in Manhattan until the Greek Catholic church of St. George was opened in 1905. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • When you see a place like Las Vegas, Phoenix or Orlando you're talking about what happened earlier in the decade so it's not necessarily a yardstick of what's going to happen over the next two or three years," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Population Shift Swells Southern and Western Cities
  • Both men are from Brooklyn, both have children named Satchel, both are basketball fans, devout Knicks supporters, and both have made the clamorous city of New York their sound stage.
  • Castro brooked no opposition to his régime, and many Cubans started to flee the island, first by the hundreds, then by the thousands.
  • Brooke's poems were published in 1911, and after a year wandering in the North America and the South Seas, he was commissioned into the Royal Navy.
  • The intentions were good, which is why Brooke couldn't really fault him.
  • No one cares for me, though I think the brook is sometimes sorry, and tries to tell me things. Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories
  • Brooks managed to squeeze 'peripatetic', 'equanimity', 'homeostasis', 'sojourner', 'grandiloquent' and 'didactic' into the brief 850 word article on the inner workings of Obama's mind, exposing a fragile psyche of his own, and a desperate need to validate his position as a national talking head. Ben Cohen: David Brooks and Big Words
  • Mom, a proud coupon queen, toddles to her little local library in Brooklyn every day, to Web-surf for freebies, coupons and rebates.
  • She was born Ella Goldberg in Kherson, Ukraine in 1896, and at the age of ten came to live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Virginia Sanchez-Korrol: Of Teachers and History: A Brooklyn Memoir
  • Brooks and colleagues also found variability in the number of latent infections among contacts of 21 patients with TB.
  • The eliminationist project is in many ways the signature of fascism, partly because it proceeds naturally from fascism's embrace of what Oxford Brookes scholar Roger Griffin calls palingenesis, or a Phoenix-like national rebirth, as its core myth. Crooks and Liars
  • Brooks's to hear a rechauffe of these things, or assist at the incense offered to Charles, or his benediction and salut to those he protects. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • You should not put rose-colored glasses on," says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution. More move, but not long distance
  • BROOKS: You know, you look at these two parents -- you know, you look up the word narcissist and you ` re going to see Richard Heene ` s picture in the dictionary. CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2009
  • It's got an on-air team led not only by Chow, as the host, but highbrow art experts such as gorgon auctioneer Simon de Pury, who will mentor the 14 artists competing for a cash prize of $100,000 and a solo show at the prestigious Brooklyn Museum of Art. Judges and guest judges include New York gallery owner The latest from teenvogue.com
  • Though I’m lucky, I suppose; the area where I live (Brooklyn) is lousy with freelancers, so delivery guys don’t give me any funny looks when I answer the door in jammies or look like I just woke up from a nap (though I usually don’t nap; I apparently just look sleepy when I’m really in the Zone with wordcount). Admitting to an infection of words «
  • Although players such as Brooking will not likely be moving anywhere, the second tier of available backers is no group of slouches.
  • Republicans may begin focusing on cutting the budget and repealing President Obama's health-care law once the new Congress is seated in January, says Thomas Mann, a political scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Big Republican Gains Predicted in US Election
  • children skating on a frozen brook
  • danza," which is kin to Mexican airs and to the Cuban "guaracha" and may be compared to a flowing brook, now gliding along serenely, now rushing in cascades. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
  • The Coalbrookdale Company had smelted its last iron in the area by 1821, and that year had dismantled the Resolution steam engine that pumped water up the dale to power the furnace bellows.
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  • We were in San Massimo, above Rapallo (Liguria), at an amusing (the walls are lined with originals of comic strip panels, in several languages) and rather excellent restaurant called U Giancu (thanks to Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery for the recommendation), where we ate: What Fred Ate Last Night - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
  • BROOKS: Well, let ` s uncage the lawyers and talk about what those down the line could be. CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007
  • You have succeeded in dividing the readership, you have brought in sympathetic readership from another blog, as was your intention, to support your position, and start your verbal donnybrook." and Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A.
  • Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness. The Egoist
  • To have real control over how all those people, under a lot of stress, and with very limited experience, are protecting the sanitariness of the product, is just very, very difficult," Hassebrook says of the meat industry. Undefined
  • Mr. Middlebrook," he continued, "is aware that I bought this yawl from a ship-broker in Hull, for a special purpose -- Ravensdene Court
  • Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion. The Dop Doctor
  • There was no crusading journalist, no nonprofit group taking up his cause, just Inmate 95A2646, a high-school dropout from Brooklyn, alone in a computerless prison law library. A Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
  • In addition, the embassy suggests that late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke call Bos to make sure he "gets" the message. Wikileaks: America's Failed Attempts To Pressure Dutch Into Staying In Afghanistan
  • Mark Pauline and Rod Brooks have advanced further than most in creating personas for machines, because the creatures are fully embodied.
  • He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
  • Thousands of dead fish were the result of toxic chemicals being dumped in this brook near Coleford.
  • Nice to see you downplay the progress made by FPU, or the properity in communities like Corner Brook, Grand Falls, Buchans, Labrador, the bases, etc . The Newfoundland Nationalist orthodoxy
  • ‘Scramble’ is the right word for this donnybrook.
  • On sultry evenings the Club adjourned to the brook for aquatic exercises, and the members sat about in airy attire, frog-like and cool. Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
  • Van Wyck Brooks and Charles Van Wyck Brooks, enl. and rev. ed., pp. 131–32 (1935). Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-81)
  • I'll curate it with a one-off Brooks fishbone saddle Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind
  • Brooklyn schools are the Appalachian cousins of the Baby Ivies and take great pride in the number of their Manhattan applicants.
  • A small crystalline brook gurgled over worn round stones as it ran to its destination.
  • Barely ninety minutes after being given the boot by that bogtrotter sergeant, she was sipping coffee in the RTE studios in Donnybrook, yakking to Gaffney while some other guy did sound checks on her mike. The Priest
  • The exacting task of tracing the course of the Potomac to its headspring was undertaken by William Mayo and Robert Brooke acting for the Crown, and Benjamin Winslow and John Savage acting for Lord Fairfax.
  • Brooke didn't figure he was talking to her, nor cared for her opinion on the subject, but she spoke up anyway.
  • He won't brook any criticism of his work.
  • The second mile is a huge drop into Brooklyn, and by about halfway, in the borough of Queens, 12 flat miles are followed by a climb, a drop and another steep climb.
  • Doctors at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge said they had developed a successful desensitisation programme which builds up tolerance in patients by slowly exposing them to tiny doses of peanut.
  • It is a major drain on police resources in Swindon, and the newspaper has recently reported problems in Toothill, Freshbrook, Stratton and Highworth.
  • Brooke nudged him and looked pointedly in the direction of the man in the elevator with them.
  • It was really too cruel and not handleable when it all stopped in one day, and she was back in her kitchen in Brookline and the phone wasn't ringing and there was no schedule and no staff and no Secret Service. What it Takes: The Way to the White House
  • Brooklyn artist Nicolas Touron , 40 years old, said he is willing to cut the program some slack, calling the out-of-state trips a "glitch," typical of an endeavor just getting under way. Local Compost, via Delaware
  • Housing estates like Sallybrook on the Clonea Road took a pasting that is certain to have cost many homeowners substantially in terms of the damage caused.
  • He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded cleuch, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered. The Monastery
  • Keep to the right of a small brook and climb steps to reach a stile at the top end of the woodland.
  • Minstrel shows drew a good audience and visiting theater companies played at the Brooks Opera House.
  • Annie Allen's another one of Brooks's very ordinary, totally undistinguished characters.
  • Restored unused shovelhead to Hallowbrook and alternate Tong model. WorthPlaying.com - All about games!
  • Brooke could hear Walker's disappointed sigh, but she just couldn't do it.
  • Thus, in the middle of the dinner party, Miles announces that the team of solicitors he works for is called "Nasty, British and Short"; Anna, who bonded with Miles years before over repartee like "you can go assonate yourself", explains puns to Brooke with examples including "there's no business like slow business". There but for the, by Ali Smith – review
  • Despite the taunts of a young cabin boy from Brooklyn who told us how seasick we would get, none of the flyers suffered.
  • Everybody says, "When you have kids, you really get away from yourself." But really, it's the most selfish thing I've ever done. It's like, Okay, I'm going to create unconditional love for myself, and I'm going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I'm going to get it. Brooke Shields 
  • They will brook no argument, these people. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's unlikely they could do it night after night in a production that travels and stuns the world, as Brook's actors did.
  • By the way, speaking of tonight's debate which I did watch, and will doubtless re-watch, at least in part, I was reminded of nothing so much as that scene from "Broadcast News" wherein Albert Brooks, as Aaron, says ""I say it here, it comes out there" and then, swacked, ends up singing ""I can sing while I read! I think I'm going to have to stop watching "American Idol."
  • Though my Brooklyn hometown is lousy with lovely craft beers such as Cigar City's mango-hinted Jai Alai IPA, Sixpoint's bracing Crisp lager and Firestone Walker's balanced, citrusy Union Jack IPA, there are hundreds of brews I'd sacrifice a pinkie to sip every day. Food Republic: 5 Craft Beers Worth Traveling For
  • Predatory fish in the ecozone include the lake sturgeon, brook trout, lake trout, northern pike, muskellunge, largemouth bass, sauger, and walleye.
  • This cow, from the broad horned Norfolk breed and sired by a bull of the Bakewell breed, was considered extraordinarily fine and became known as ‘The Westbrook Heifer.’
  • Holbrooke returns to his Wall Street investment banking job with mission accomplished.
  • You could take off the Brooklyn Bridge's asphalt, remove half of the cables, make the piers a little narrower, make the span shorter, and you would still have a quite viable bridge.
  • There was nobody around, just a babbling brook and a canopy of green. Times, Sunday Times
  • Buffet recipes include a giant cheese and spinach pie that Brooks calls the ‘ultimate spanakopita recipe.’
  • I taught myself to swim in Leg of Mutton pond, skated on Pen Ponds when they froze, sledged in Petersham Park when it snowed, built dams across the brook, and learnt to ride a bike on the path to Bog Lodge.
  • The Brookes keeper performs an acrobatic save to keep Oxford off the score sheet in what was a disappointing game for the home team
  • Although the early history of ironmaking and ironworking in Kingston is lost to us, it is clear that by 1728, iron was being made by direct reduction and converted to products on a triphammer at the ‘Old Forge,’ a bloomery on Hall's Brook.
  • A mere hint of the enormity of what lay ahead was at Brookhaven in Mississippi, my first stop on the Lampton / Lambton trail.
  • Mr. Brookfield was afterwards appointed Censor of Plays on the strength apparently of having himself written one of the "riskiest" plays of the period. Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions
  • • Details have been hard to come by about what happened when Rebekah Brooks, leaderene at News International, broke bread around Christmas with James Murdoch, head honcho at News Corp, and David Cameron, head honcho from No 10. Hugh Muir's diary
  • But then Brooks’s counterfactual is pointless, because you can’t choose to marry someone you can be happy with. Matthew Yglesias » Eternal Recurrence
  • However, they were rewarded soon after as Brook touched down a pushover from ten metres.
  • A Christmas window display in the shop of Messrs Tipping and Lee, coal merchants, Brook Street, Ilkley, was burned out through the fusing of an electric fairy light which formed part of the decorations.
  • This was a breakthrough exhibition for painter Greg Stone, who has long been a mainstay of the thriving arts community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
  • At the three-hankie end of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," Francie Nolan and her kid brother look out from their tenement rooftop to the skyline of Manhattan. From Dinaw Mengestu, A 'How To' With Few Answers
  • One day a young female began to wash the sand from the sweet potatoes by plunging them in a small brook that ran through the beach. Cultural Anthropology
  • Ambassador Richard Holbrooke into the council chamber.
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  • [2] "Almost prehistoric" was the verdict of the distinguished film editor Ralph Rosenblum, who worked on The Producers and has reminisced none too flatteringly about his sole collaboration with Brooks, whom he characterizes as a bullheaded amateur who had no idea how to use the resources of the camera to create humor. Double Take
  • He was very excited and animated when he was brought to the new Keyspan Park in Brooklyn to throw out a first ball at the Mets minor league home of the Brooklyn Cyclones.
  • This house would be planted, if possible, neare to some riuer, or fresh running brooke, but by no meanes vpon the verge of the riuer, nor within the danger of the ouerflow thereof: for the one is subiect to too much coldnesse and moisture, the other to danger. The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments
  • Middle possibly must surmount landform and so on mountain ridge, jungle, desert, snowfield, brook, canyon one kind of outdoor activities.
  • A film about celebrated pizza man Domenico DeMarco, of Brooklyn's Di Fara Pizza, will be paired with pies from the shop. A Theater Where Eating Is Definitely Allowed
  • So it came as no surprise when meteorologists determined late Friday that the storm that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens a day earlier spawned two tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph. Authorities: 2 Tornadoes Struck NYC During Storm
  • Brooks Brothers is classic, ponk,” he says as he fingers his repp tie. At the Brooks Brothers Hip Hop Summit
  • Four of their core Western classical-oriented members also play as Brooklyn Rider - longtime NPR Music staff favorites - and other master musicians in this adventurous band include the Galician gaita bagpipe dazzler Cristina Pato as well as pipa Wu Man. News
  • Thanks for disabusing us of our unsophisticated illusions, Mr. Brooks.
  • Or is that a babbling brook? Times, Sunday Times
  • A system of ponds, brooks, and waterfalls originally ran through wooded gorges into 60-acre Prospect Lake.
  • His first job had been on the beat as a Brooklyn policeman in 1917.
  • There in the bottom of the brook was a seam of amethyst crystals that averaged perhaps to be one half inch thick and a inch long.
  • A cyclist was knocked off his bike on Brook Hill a couple of weeks ago.
  • And to draw the last of my title quaternity into the discussion, Edward Tufte proposes as a “grand truth about human behvior that, as Van Wyck Brooks said, “It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and the unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up.” AKMA’s Random Thoughts
  • We're going to futz around Brooklyn and then go out for drinkage and reminiscing about how we used to play croquet at the university cemetery while drinking G&T's and quoting liberally from Heathers.
  • The idea of a little town nestling between two babbling brooks is a beautiful one and we owe it to ourselves to keep it as beautiful as possible.
  • Holbrooke also ruled out any chances of the US playing the role of an 'intermediator' between India and Pakistan. Dailyindia.com News Feed
  • The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
  • David Brooks, as loyal an administration fugleman as you will find, asks, Would it be illegal for more people on the left to actually be happy that a story slurring Americans may turn out to be unproven? Rotten fruit
  • Still hearing there's a good chance Brian Westbrook makes a decision today, and I continue to think his hometown Skins are the team to beatless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®Jason La Canfora Brian Westbrook, Redskins still possible, but do they need him?
  • Also inhabiting Ecoregion 61c are several species that are threatened in Pennsylvania, including the eastern sand darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) and the northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) (Cooper, 1985, pp. 179, 182). Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
  • Jaelyn whispered in Brooke's ear as Hugh walked, no, strutted into the room.
  • Quantum dots - tiny crystals of semiconductor materials that fluoresce, or emit light, in response to photoexcitation - have enormous potential for use in a wide range of fields from solar energy conversion to computing and medicine," said Mircea Cotlet, a physical chemist at Brookhaven's PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Brooks posits a natural, readerly desire for endings as a structuring principle in narrative, which proceeds as a ‘movement toward totalization under the mandate of desire’.
  • Although brook trout and lake trout are not known to hybridize in nature, hybrids between these species, known as splake, are produced in hatcheries and stocked for sportfishing. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • Brook flows beneath that bridge will a bridal pass churchwards over its span, for there, but for such a crossing, Eadmund the king might have bided safely till Ingvar the Dane had passed and gone. Wulfric the Weapon Thane
  • Making daps and T-shirts rather cheaply, and selling them quite expensively, would be my guess, but according to the company spokesman Charlie Brooks: "What we say at Nike is that we are amplifying the voice of the athlete. On the scent of the Seventies with James Hunt and Barry Sheene
  • When Philbrook challenged this arrangement and lost at the district court level, he appealed.
  • The trout of the brooklets are in a class by themselves.
  • Just fancy, I'd begin with a clear leap over that chief's head -- the one there wi 'the feathers an' the long nose that's makin 'such hideous faces -- then away up the glen, over the stones, down the hollows, shoutin' like mad, an 'clearin' the brooks and precipices with a band o 'yellin' Redskins at my tail! Twice Bought
  • And the army green fatigue acket had never seen the inside of Brooks Brothers. Breakfast In Bed
  • An informal beginning to the Afghan "rollout" -- D. C.-speak for a coordinated but segmented sales job of a new initiative to Congress, the media and diplomats of other nations -- will come in Brussels tomorrow, when Holbrooke will brief NATO allies privately on the strategic review ordered by Obama. The Torch
  • Meanwhile, the race among the leaders continued to ‘come together in a tight pack,’ Brooks says.
  • One-plant cultures of a single species developed vegetatively, occupying shallow brooks with a stony ground covered with sand, are typical.
  • Studying at the art institute, located in the center of the city, Brook looked forward to the mad rush and exciting life of the city.
  • Similarly, despite the efforts of Scott and Paxton to "straighten" The Brick Foxhole, the homosocial and potentially homoerotic bonds between men represented by Brooks could not be completely excised from Crossfire. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • The label raised the bar for fashion houses, who are usually happy to secure one big name, when they lined up the actresses alongside singer Carrie Underwood and model and actresses Brooke Shields and Lauren Hutton to pose with designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka. Entertainment - Female First
  • Whitewashed houses back onto a brook lined with poplar and walnut.
  • The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook.
  • Now we Americans are getting a strong taste of what it must have been like to live in the totalitarian Soviet Union, fascist Italy, or nazi Germany, where the controlled press and media spouted the imperial line and brooked no protests. Think Progress » Santorum to GOP: Stimulus hypocrisy ‘does undermine your credibility.’
  • There is a public footpath and small brook between our boundary wall and the hedge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two straight nights in a row of non-stop dancing can really work the legs, and Brooke was a little sore.
  • Every so often I notice a fireworks display off in the distance; sometimes near the East River, sometimes near the Brooklyn beaches.
  • Onlookers used to the swagger of pre-Red Millbrook days hardly recognised the dimmed round-shouldered slinker as the wolf of the tracks, the sexual predator that had set alarmed mothers scurrying protectively after their chicks. The Elvis Latte
  • Brooke-Rose's first four novels also share with Spark's work an effort to integrate intellectual pursuits with questions of self-definition.
  • It was a sovereign country and a democratic one, and would brook no interference in its internal affairs.
  • The championship leader headed a pack of very closely matched cars as Damien Faulkner, Tim Harvey and Jason Templeman all lapped within six tenths of a second of Westbrook's fastest time.
  • The play has two characters, upper class Mrs Holbrook and charwoman, Mrs Chicky.
  • Some drip, some trickle or dribble whereas some sound like a natural brook. Times, Sunday Times
  • All this time, Brooks moans and whines, but he is inspired without hardly realizing it.
  • Processing faunal material in the Brooklyn College zooarchaeology lab (Courtesy Brooklyn College) Working With Fish Bones
  • In his recent editorial in The New York Times entitled "The Question-Driven Life," columnist David Brooks wrote about his encounter with Philip Leakey, a man he describes as "gripped with some sort of compulsive curiosity. George Heymont: The Artist's Urge to Proselytize
  • He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall. Bedlam
  • ‘In a strange way, we've had two presidents and two presidencies,’ said Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution, who has been an adviser to four presidents.
  • Reiss used his Brooklyn home as security for the loan.
  • The added plus is that you live in a Mafia neighborhood like Bayridge, Brooklyn, you're supersafe. "You have a trifecta — gangsters, Italian-Americans, New Jersey — wedded in the popular American imagination."
  • Those figures would brook no argument. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ade and Brooks exchanged blows yesterday and they were severely punished today.
  • Jews pray at the Mount of Olives, matzoh is baked in Brooklyn, and thousands of rabbis pose for a group photo. Christian money guru mixes faith, funds - Faith- msnbc.com
  • That report contains provisional proposals for the construction of major flood alleviation works within the Edgware Brook and Silk Stream catchments.
  • There was a sloshing sound as freezing brook water cascaded from above.
  • Now whether that word hath origin in a Greek term meaning a conflict, as the best-read boys asseverated, or whether it is nothing more than a figure of similitude, from the beating arms of a mill, such as I have seen in counties where are no waterbrooks, but folk make bread with wind — it is not for a man devoid of scholarship to determine. Lorna Doone
  • I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength. Brooke Shields 
  • a gay city life for them, while the froggery was in a quiet brook in our quiet old garden. The Story Hour
  • Male speaker It's basically a massive brick structure carrying the water of the Bear brook through Aylesbury.
  • In a tense final he was beaten by the championship's number two seed Bobby Brook.
  • Journey to Sea Gate, Brooklyn for an authentic Russian "banya" experience. Relaxation For Every Budget: New York Spa Getaways
  • Two female Romance language instructors were tossed out of their Brooklyn high school after being caught "undressed" in an empty classroom, sources told the Daily News Tuesday. WN.com - Business News
  • A consoling fact for the loser, though potentially ominous for the winner, is that defeated finalists in the past – including JLS and One Direction, both chart-topping acts – have often done better than some who took the Cowell crown; Leon Jackson and Steve Brookstein spring to mind. TV review: The X Factor final
  • Persephone is a multi-media-musical play within a play featuring Julia Stiles (of the Jason Bourne films and Oleanna on Broadway) in the title role, which last week finished it's premiere run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). G. Roger Denson: Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM
  • One of the groups that really gets hit is the other kind of lamprey," Andrews said, adding that the northern brook, silver and American lamprey are three native species vulnerable to the effects of the chemical. RutlandHerald.com
  • Brooks's husband, Charlie, a race-horse trainer, even runs an alternative medicine "kriotherapy" centre at Champneys, the country house resort in Tring, which uses sub-zero temperatures to treat ailments. Champneys: the spa that helped secure Sir Paul Stephenson's fate
  • Tofano was nowise moved by these words from his besotted intent; wherefore quoth she to him, 'Harkye now, I can no longer brook this thy fashery, God pardon it thee! The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • One day a young female began to wash the sand from the sweet potatoes by plunging them in a small brook that ran through the beach. Cultural Anthropology
  • The dearest book of my childhood, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, includes Francie's first period, but again, the novel's no upper: shortly after first blood Francie is assaulted by a pervert in a tenement hallway. Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
  • The journey starts at her local Brooklyn sanitation division, then explodes into the world-wide business of waste disposal, which seems 1) very profitable and 2) largely an exercise in staving off the inevitable. Nightstand inspection! Who's reading something awesome? | EW.com
  • Ruby knew it from the moment her excitement wore off, somewhere on the long, clanky elevated ride across Brooklyn. DIAMOND RUBY
  • The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
  • I well remember the first occasion on which I saw a spotted forktail; I was walking down a Himalayan path, alongside of which a brook was flowing, when suddenly from a rock in mid-stream there arose a black-and-white apparition, that flitted away, displaying a long tail fluttering behind it. Birds of the Indian Hills
  • When the handsome Hollywood actress Brooke Shields, left, starred as Roxie Hart in the West End musical Chicago over the summer, she picked out a bijou house in Marylebone as her home.
  • Finally, for both Wimsatt and Brooks a defining characteristic of poetry was irony.
  • Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn.
  • Roxy and Virgie, in their clean Sunday suits, loitered around the bridge behind the store, or strayed a little way up the Manokin brook, hearing the mocking-bird rend his breast in all the ventriloquy of genius. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • Mr. Brooke I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his opening expression of sympathy.
  • England (following Brooke and Miller, 1852) these designations have been reversed, calamine being used for the carbonate and smithsonite for the silicate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Few things are as sweet as our belle, Brooke Parkhurst, unless of course, you've tasted her fruit galettes.
  • Blue Ridge streams have a distinct fish fauna, with some containing brook trout, the only salmonid native to Tennessee. Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)
  • The white fish -- a kind of chub -- was caught in the Yukon by the Yapik Eskimos and smoked at Acme Smoked Fish Corp, an old-fashioned, family-run business in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Lorna Sass: The Hidden Cost of Being 100% Locavore
  • He grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a well-to-do family, a letterman in three sports and the most popular boy in the senior class at Erasmus High.
  • Intent on being as bold, brash and undeterred as possible and brooking little nay-saying from any quarter, she even felt free to jump the gun on movies made by directors whom she championed. David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic
  • He expected the same from his editors and would brook no editorial interference. Times, Sunday Times
  • December 3, 2008 26 pp. of recycled neocon lite rubbish from Richard Haas and Martin Indyk, under the imprimatur of the Brookings Inst.: 03 « December « 2008 « Niqnaq
  • The firm, nut-flavored boletus are more blue-collar and not as coveted by connoisseurs, but they go better with brook trout. Fool’s Paradise
  • Its crystal type have anatase, brookite and rutile.
  • Of course, no one looks quite as good as the scenesters at Brooklyn loft parties.
  • I occasionally write for a satirical youth magazine based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
  • Rather, the founders idolized G-d alone -- faith in Him was stamped even on our money -- and brooked no shallow, hollow substitutes, Hollywood superstars included. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama's Soulless Obsession With Science and Math
  • Although he controls only a tiny share of the basketball franchise, his stake is trumpeted loudly in promotional materials for the related Atlantic Yards arena project, and he was prominently featured at its groundbreaking in Brooklyn, along with Governor Paterson. Matt Sledge: Aqueduct Report: Jay-Z Was Clueless
  • Although, he was actually autochthonous to Brooklyn, not California.
  • The internal life of their organizations was manipulated from the top and brooked no dissent.
  • The impression received is that Brooke-Rose had simply given up trying to integrate the conceptual content of her novel with its story.

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