24 Verbs to Use for the Word brink

This stream I traced down through its many dells and gorges, meadows and bogs, reaching the brink of the main Tuolumne at dusk.

I will try To gain the torrent's brink.

The railway follows the Columbia's brink the entire distance to within a few miles of the city.

Be ever just, Thou god of shepherds, Pan, for her dear sake That loves the rivers' brinks, and still doth shake In cold remembrance of thy quick pursuit; Let me be made a reed, and, ever mute, Nod to the waters' fall, whilst every blast Sings through my slender leaves that I was chaste!

Antony, as if becoming more and more infatuated as he approached the brink of his ruin, spent his time while the expedition remained at Samos, not in maturing his plans and perfecting his arrangements for the tremendous conflict which was approaching, but in festivities, games, revelings, and every species of riot and dissolute excess.

Mere human voice reach that incomprehensible outermost brink!

Bob Brownley's great brown eyes were closed, his clasped hands had dropped against his wife's head, and in dropping had unloosed the glorious golden-brown waves until in fond abandon they had coiled around his arms and brow as though she for whom he had sacrificed all was shielding his beloved head from the chills and dark mists of the black river that laps the brink of the eternal rest.

They then poured on water from the river on whose brink it lays.

In Eden's green retreats, A water-brookthat played Between soft, mossy seats, Beneath a plane tree's shade, Whose rustling leaves Danced o'er its brink Was Adam's drink, And also Eve's.

By so steering as to drop the skidding wheels on the outside into each gully, the sliding of the machine received a series of violent checks and we missed the brink of the ravine by a few inches.

The log, slightly rolling, as if intoxicated, neared the brink of the falls.

Thrice daily in their polished cup Its crystal waters sink; Thrice daily do they rise again And overflow the brink, Since Pliny's day no more, no less, Unchanged in rhythmic loveliness.

But just opposite us, on a little shelf of soil, there was a rude mill, and a group of superb walnut-trees, overhanging the brink of the largest torrent.

"I pace the river's icy brink, This dreary Christmas Eve," she said, "And watch the dying sunset sink From pallid gold to ashen red.

For the right understanding of the whole scene, the student must remember that Hamlet is philosophizingfollowing things out, curiously or otherwiseon the brink of a grave, concerning the tenant for which he has enquired'what woman then?'but received no answer.

The edges are formed of huge blocks of well-wrought stone, so accurately levelled that the 'hauz' overflows all round its brink, making a pleasant sound of running water.

Whether the weed was a sort of ocean-hasheesh, or wholesome aliment, I never knew, but certain it is that, from the moment its juices passed my lips, a strange and delightful quietude stole over my weary senses, fast lapsing, as these had seemed, into, unconsciousness when I left my place to seek the ocean's brink.

Half god, half brute, within the self-same shell, Changers with every hour from dawn till even, Who dream with angels in the gate of heaven, And skirt with curious eyes the brinks of hell, Children of Pan, whom some, the few, love well, But most draw back, and know not what to say, Poor shining angels, whom the hoofs betray, Whose pinions frighten with their goatish smell.

It is the gentle laugh, not violating, but just humanising, that very solemn kiss; the quip that just saves passion from toppling over the brink into bathos, that mark the skilful lover.

This solitary exception was a Hindu carrier who chanced to tumble off the brink of a chasm in the Himalayas.

For thy kindness to me shown, Never from thy banks be blown Any tree, with windy force, Cross thy streams, to stop thy course: May no beast that comes to drink, With his horns cast down thy brink; May none that for thy fish do look, Cut thy banks to damm thy Brook; Bare-foot may no Neighbour wade In thy cool streams, wife nor maid, When the spawns on stones do lye, To wash their Hemp, and spoil the Fry. God.

But as the moon, which all too soon Sinks down the west for me, To other eyes appears to rise And glide on fair and free, So the frail boat in which I float, Though tempest-worn it be, May cross life's brink, and seem to sink, Yet sail another sea.

Closed round their heads reluctant eddies sink, And wider rings successive dash the brink.

The horses were sure-footed, but now and then a gust would come that made them and us strain against it, to avoid being dashed against the rock on one side, or hurled off the brink on the other.

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  brink