Deborah Sampson

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

American Soldier

Joseph Lancaster

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

English Educator

Josh Charles

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

American Actor

Sarah Steele

I'll shout out to James L. Brooks. 'Terms of Endearment' always makes me cry. Also, 'Stepmom' always makes me cry. I guess, you know, mothers dying. It's a safe bet that I'm going to cry.

American Actress

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

American Writer

Dom DeLuise

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

Robin Lopez

Brook isn't just my brother, he's one of my closest friends. That won't change.

Ingrid Seward

The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.

Writer

Alexander the Great

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Leader

Pete Rose

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

American Baseball Player

Brook as a noun often evokes peaceful, natural scenes in literature and poetry.

Natural Imagery

A brook is smaller than a river. Use it to describe tiny streams, not large bodies of water.

Size Matters

'Babbling' is often used with brook to describe the sound of the water flowing over rocks.

Descriptive Word

When used as a verb, 'brook' implies no acceptance or tolerance for something.

Zero Tolerance

'Brook' as a verb is less common and sounds quite formal or old-fashioned in modern usage.

Less Common Verb

The verb 'brook' is seen more in literary or formal contexts than in everyday conversation.

Literary Context

 and so it just took out so many roads and mile miles of roads and bridges and it just destroyed them a lot of them are still not fixed even in the spring like this this is right near my house on broad brook and then so i'm really concerned about climate change and if i could rule the world for a day i would try to combat

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 to print and paper or to print and water to print in plastic or to print in metal so you have a very different networking structure very different hierarchical structure with the new technology coming in and then you add the third thing which is robots so the stuff that rod Brooks is doing is incredibly important

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 informally growing up my brother and I had to walk a mile and a half to the bus stop the way back was always like this big explore adventure session where we walk on the frozen brook and hopefully fall through I wasn't so bad being self-sufficient was a big part of our childhood and I didn't realize how much

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 are readers willing to devote themselves to any story the packaging doesn't really matter I mean we started from Brooks and now we have digital screens who knows where we'll end up with the important thing is the story inside the story that will capture any reader and make them fly thousands of meters are

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 be bold maya angelou and ozaki shanghai phyllis wheatley lucille clifton gwendolyn brooks joan wicks audrey lord and so many more it might feel like every story has been told before but the truth is no one's ever told my story in the way i would tell it

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 can you name me another well-known panda hmm well there's there's duncan brooks the face of the world where i'm both fun lovely photo smashing storyteller matter of fact next actually bomb on the after dinner speaking circuit

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 a really good paddler both Eric and I have whitewater backgrounds as professional characters that it's kind of funny that neither of us have actually ever been in a canoe and we are on the hunt for brook trout right now

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 study them and so i set out from long island i was at stony brook and drove down the east coast and we just would pull into a town and then we would ask where the skaters were and you could go into any

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 exciting probably not far from here in the stream or brook that we have sort of running past this area and possibly with new tiny baby little cubbies are we gonna hang around here because this is

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 looking for a mate it's the roger brooks bird wing it's got the most impressive wingspan these are incredibly rare here the simple fact that they're

Brook

A small stream of water.

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Tolerate or allow something.

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