97 Verbs to Use for the Word brooks

Willie led his father as straight as he could, but I don't know how often they crossed the little brook before they came to where, from the old stone shaft, like the crater of a volcano, it rolled over the brim, an eruption of cool, clear, lucid water.

I certainly expected a larger river where I found only a clear quick brook.

At the end of this field ran a swift little brook, clear and musical, open to the sky in places, and in others hidden under flowery banks.

So there was no fear at all, but only an eager wonder, when they followed up the brook next day to watch at the wolf's den.

They carry it in a bag, or a hollow leathern girdle; and when they reach a brook or pond, they take a spoonful of the dry meal, and then one of water, to prevent its choking them.

"Soyou quite understand, my Porges?" "Yes, yesOh I understand!" "Where the little bridge spans the brook,the trees are thicker, there.

What man who has smelled the first fragrance of the earth, has heard the birds on their northern flight and has seen an April brook upon its course, will withhold his credence even though the jest be plain?

He feigned a retreat, and allured Audley to follow him with precipitation; but when the van of the royal army had passed the brook, Salisbury suddenly turned upon them, and partly by the surprise, partly by the division of the enemy's forces, put this body to rout; the example of flight was followed by the rest of the army; and Salisbury, obtaining a complete victory, reached the general rendezvous of the Yorkists at Ludlow.

About his chequered sides I wind, And leave his brooks and meads behind, And groves, and grottoes where I lay, And vistas shooting beams of day: Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal: The mountains roundunhappy fate!

" Thus, presently, having forded the brook, they struck into the forest; first went Walkyn, axe on shoulder, teeth agleam; next strode Sir Pertolepe, head high, 'twixt pale-faced Roger and silent Beltane, while the bowman followed after, calling upon St. Giles beneath his breath and crossing himself: and ever and anon Walkyn would turn to look upon their scowling captive with eyes that glared 'neath shaggy brows.

meats of noblest sort And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.

"He called His legions, angel-forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa where the Etrurian shades, High over-arched, embower.

Heavy freshets from the mountains that swelled their rushing brooks into annual torrents, and snow-drifts that covered five-rail fences a foot above the posts and blocked up the turnpike-road for weeks, caused this congregation fully to appreciate Parson Manners's favorite hymns, "There is a land of pure delight," and "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand.

[The SWANS are seen swimming down the brook.]

Sheepskin and bourka are dispensed with, as we ride lazily along under a blazing sun through pleasant green plains of maize and barley, irrigated by babbling brooks of crystal-clear water.

On Saturdays I never left to wander far away I hovered near the kitchen door on Mother's baking day; The fragrant smell of cooking seemed to hold me in its grip, And naught cared I for other sports while there were sweets to sip; I little cared that all my chums had sought the brook to fish; I chose to wait that moment glad when I could scrape the dish.

The green, grassy, deeply-shadowed lawn lay behind the mansion, sloping down into a dark, deep dell, across which brawled a tiny brook long since absorbed by the thirsty earth thrown out from many foundations of stores and tenements and great warehouses hard by; a dell where once roses, lilacs, guelder-globes, and calacanthus-bushes, grew with a vigor that I have nowhere seen surpassed.

Two gentlementhat means you and me, Dick; and 'The Willows' means running brooks, or ought to, if they are any sort of respectable trees.

I counted fifteen brooks on the north-east side which feed the Catarman, and about the same number of feeders of the Calbayot on the south-west side.

Burn, the name of the village-master, and the site of his school-house, and Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow; The wretched matron forced in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread; (and to this day the brook and ditches, near the spot where her cabin stood, abound with cresses) still remain in the memory of the inhabitants, and Catherine's children live in the neighbourhood.

The tree overhung a clear brook, and the lizard could see his reflection (alung) in the water.

I leaped the little brook in the valley and strode hastily up the opposite slope.

They form a pretty brook.

When we rode down into Turkey Canyon, however, we found a place where beavers had dammed the brook.

A long howl of pain replied to the detonation, and Dingo disappeared between the double row of bushes that bordered the brook.

97 Verbs to Use for the Word  brooks