," said the Fakir, "brooks no delay.

It was impossible to believe that my father himself would have acted thus; but he was not a man to brook interference, and I did not see how to introduce the subject, what to say.

The German military character brooks no opposition; the Turks like to postpone till to-morrow what should be done to-day.

"You see, though we are very young, we are gentlemen, and cannot brook an insult from strangers.

They would not brook even the menace of oppression.

I cannot brook a Rival in my Love, the rustling Pole of my Affection is too strong to be resisted.

He, six times consul, fit for peace or war, Sits drooping here, content to brook disgrace, Who glad to fight through follies of his foes Sighs for your shame, whilst you abide secure.

The answer is: because the unification of Germany was only possible through the instrumentality of Prussia, which would not brook the rivalry of Austria, and therefore the latter had to go.

Mr. Long had remarked, that all the insurrections and suicides in Jamaica had been found among the imported slaves, who, not having lost the consciousness of civil rights, which they had enjoyed in their own country, could not brook the indignities to which they were subjected in the West Indies.

She tried to hold him from her, but he pressed her to him with a dominance that would not brook resistance.

To an active and vigorous understanding she united a strength of will which would brook little control, together with much energy and fearlessness; and the propensity to follow the vain inclinations of the unregenerate heart displayed itself in an indulgence in much that was inimical to the restraints of Christian principle.

I cannot brook Thy absence.

The cars were overdue, and Haynes, whose haughty spirit could not brook the idea of being passed by jeering plutocrats, propounded a scheme.

"To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are the indications of a great mind.

We consider it to be inconsistent with our self respect any longer to brook the spirit of superiority and dominance which has systematically ignored and disregarded the sentiments of thirty crores of the innocent people of India on many a vital matter.

How does she brook her strange imprisonment? Ast.

His opening and closing the Debate; his taking on himself that great Enterprize at the Thought of which the whole Infernal Assembly trembled; his encountering the hideous Phantom who guarded the Gates of Hell, and appeared to him in all his Terrors, are Instances of that proud and daring Mind which could not brook Submission even to Omnipotence.

He was a stern man and overbearing and would brook no contradiction.

He would have given all he dared spend to have staid away, for he felt both too fierce and too tremulous to brook the criticisms that were likely to be made.

Virtue can brook the thoughts of age, That lasts the same through every stage.

Foppingtonall must overboard, he positively swearsand that ancient mariner brooks no denial; for, since the tiresome monodrame of the old Thracian Harper, Charon, it is to be believed, hath shown small taste for theatricals.

Dryden was not likely, of many men, to brook this tone of affected superiority.

He was not a man to brook ungenerous treatment.

King had stepped in at a moment when Brodie was in no mood to brook any interruption or interference.

A handsome mulatto woman, about 18 or 20 years of age, whose independent spirit could not brook the degradation of slavery, was in the habit of running away: for this offence she had been repeatedly sent by her master and mistress to be whipped by the keeper of the Charleston work-house.