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Brook   /brʊk/   Listen
Brook

noun
1.
A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).  Synonym: creek.
verb
(past & past part. brooked; pres. part. brooking)
1.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate.  "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"



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"Brook" Quotes from Famous Books



... slept where we could hear the salt lake speak in its anger. Then we were rulers and Sagamores over the land. But when a pale face was seen on every brook, we followed the deer back to the river of our nation. The Delawares were gone. Few warriors of them all stayed to drink of the stream they loved. Then said my fathers, 'Here will we hunt. The waters of the river ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper

... truth, notwithstanding the strict rigor with which he preserved the dignity of his stations and the hasty impatience with which he resented any affront to his person or orders, disobedience to which he could in no instance brook in any person on board, he was one of the best natured fellows alive. He acted the part of a father to his sailors; he expressed great tenderness for any of them when ill, and never suffered any the least work of supererogation to ...
— Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon • Henry Fielding

... forest, and the Cossack companies, trailing their lances and advancing one after another as if poured out of a sack, dashed gaily across the brook toward the camp. ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... she wished, as she had troubled him to come so far from home. She then told him all the matter as it really was and begged him to help her husband out of the trial put before him. He said he was ready to do so, but would brook no delay. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... Brook Farm was a serious, sober experiment inaugurated by the Reverend George Ripley with intent to live the ideal life—the life of useful effort, direct honesty, simplicity ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard


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