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in literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972
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A little shallow brook flowed around the site on the north and east
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As the dark approached once again they found a keltoid clump that was on an island in the brook, which was now a stream
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The fireplace was between the front door and the village end of the brook
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I squelched through swarms of midges and climbed through tall grasses and even jumped a surprising brook all without confrontation
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There was a camp fire going around the bend in the brook and they could hear voices
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They could look out over the little brook that wound thru the flat of Yoonbarla Vale
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When it was built, the brook ran to the edge of the patio stones, so it had dropped at least three feet in the three and a half thousand years this house had stood here
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The view of the fields and the brook and the mountainside in Wescarp was better than these plain block walls
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His walls were festooned with screens and he had a brook driving an escapement driving a big tracking mirror on a suntower collecting light that was conducted thru thick fiber bundles to his components with outlets all over the room, most of them in use
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A brook carved fanciful shapes into the rock, and he was admiring it from it’s mossy bank when he came to a thick plank spanning it
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Of course now he knew that the row of trees along the brook are houses lining the street, facts that were invisible in the view the last time he’d seen it
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“It’s a good thing there’s a brook down the bottom of this hill
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She grabbed the lunch sack and his knife and went down the hill toward the brook
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By now he had his tackle tied to a big root across the brook ready to pull the wheels around
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Two great living shaftwoods as the pillars between the street and the brook
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Beyond here the street widened out so the brook gurgled thru a wide green and there was a wide street on either side
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I found after I came about two miles up, that the tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little brook of running water, very fresh and good; but this being the dry season, there was hardly any water in some parts of it—at least not enough to run in any stream, so as it could be perceived
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On the banks of this brook I found many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass; and on the rising parts of them, next to the higher grounds, where the water, as might be supposed, never overflowed, I found a great deal of tobacco, green, and growing to a great and very strong stalk
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The next day, the sixteenth, I went up the same way again; and after going something further than I had gone the day before, I found the brook and the savannahs cease, and the country become more woody than before
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Klowa and Luray found a place out in the back of a keda field on the far side of the clump of jungle beyond the brook
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They did not brook any arguments
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It was separated from the tiny path that served this side of Yoonbarla Brook by a high wall of trellis choked with all the spice vines they'd had on it since she'd owned the place
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They had almost three acres of land down in Yoonbarla Vale, the little finger of the great valley that followed Yoonbarla Brook up towards the falls for over three miles
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Their farm was in a meander of the brook, two thirds of the way up the vale and on the steeper, sunnier, south side
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The brook is about thirty feet wide and three or four feet deep at this point
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No one piped water on this side of the brook, so they had a tank and a new rotary pump with wind-wheel that Dara had put in to replace the old lever-squeak thing that must have been teased along since sometime in the 40's
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But as she crossed the brook, the bright sun showed Nerissa an ill omen
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Late into the afternoon, Nerissa stopped to rest at a brook that bubbled down the slope
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She was in luck, because the lane she traveled came to a large cave not far from the brook
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industrial buildings and modest new estates, plus a watercourse that at first couldn't decide if it was a brook or a drain but soon became wider and
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He loves to hear the little brook a-
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In France, the great easily submit to a considerable degree of inequality in a tax which, so far as it affects them, is not a very heavy one; but could not brook the arbitrary assessment of an intendant
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And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine
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Notice that the story said that David went to the brook to pick five smooth stones
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A progressive (also read: liberal) stance maintains most if not all of the following propositions, and will in most cases brook no opposition to them
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Directly in front of him chuckled the brook, about two metres across, and thirty millimetres deep
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He went stalking farther up the trail by the babbling brook
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Looking forward to seeing you this weekend at Holly Brook House, directions given below, bring a guest, etc
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He mentioned the name of a woman called Susan Blackburn and Norman Brook as having something to do with the danger
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"Tonight, I think we should leave the forest for the safety of the brook
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They were heading for the safety of the brook, far away from the forest
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40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he
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9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind
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abide at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him, and when David came near to
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to them, They be gone over the brook of water; And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem
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destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron
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4 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there
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6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook
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7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land
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to the brook Kishon, and killed them there
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6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook
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The ethereal beauty of the asters in the moonlight, the glimmer of the little spring, the soft croon of the brook, the wavering grace of the brackens all wove a white magic round John Meredith
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The Glen brook bore down a freight of gold and crimson leaves, like fairy shallops
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found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord; And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook
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Nan and Di had been picking spruce gum with Faith and Una in the manse woods and the four of them were now sitting on a fallen pine by the brook, all, it must be admitted, chewing rather vigorously
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4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook
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15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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2Kin 23:6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people
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22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook
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She and Una took their story books to Rainbow Valley and read, while Carl investigated bugs along the banks of the brook, and all three were happy until they suddenly realized that it was twilight and that the old Bailey garden was uncomfortably near by
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7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head
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have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows
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Waters: See also River, Brook, Ocean and Sea: Flowing in the Holy Spirit; nations of the earth; restlessness; note if there is an undercurrent or
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Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned
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Number 6 Elm brook was a two story large detached property with brown bricks and a large garden
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13 Listen to me, you holy children, and flower as a rose growing by the brook of the field,
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She moved until her fingers found the cool brook, and she paused to bring the water up in her hands and drink
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She stood and waded through the brook; then stayed still for a moment and strained her ears for the sound of footsteps through the rushing of the water
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But as she turned, the smell was overwhelmed by the fearful stench emanating from the one on the other side of the brook
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40 Then Timotheus said to the captains of his host, When Judas and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first to us, we
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footmen and horsemen came against them: However there was a water brook between them
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A beautiful brook meandered underneath and a small signpost announced the location of „Brookdell Cottage’
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toward the east over against Ekrebel, which is near to Chusi, that is on the brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians
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stream of water that flowed down the small brook beside
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8 And Abram and all belonging to him rose up from the brook Mitzraim and came to Egypt; and they had scarcely entered the gates of the city when the guards stood up to them saying, Give tithe to the king from what you have, and then you may come into the town; and Abram and those who were with him did so
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34 And Abraham still rebuked Satan, and Satan went from them, and seeing he could not prevail over them he hid himself from them, and he went and passed before them in the road; and he transformed himself to a large brook of water in the road, and Abraham and Isaac and his two young men reached that place, and they saw a brook large and powerful as the mighty waters
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35 And they entered the brook and passed through it, and the waters at first reached their legs
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36 And they went deeper in the brook and the waters reached up to their necks, and they were all terrified on account of the water; and while they were going over the brook Abraham recognized that place, and he knew that there was no water there before
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62 And now I have left him in the mountain of the brook of Jabuk, him and all belonging to him; he lacks nothing
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72 And these messengers went on the road to meet Jacob, and they met him in the road of the brook on the opposite side of the brook Jabuk, and Jacob said when he saw them, This camp is destined to me from God, and Jacob called the name of that place Machnayim
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47 So the whole present passed on in the hands of his servants, and went before him on that day, and he lodged that night with his camps by the border of the brook of Jabuk, and he rose up in the midst of the night, and he took his wives and his maid servants, and all belonging to him, and he who night passed them over the ford Jabuk
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48 And when he passed all belonging to him over the brook, Jacob was left by himself, and a man met him, and he wrestled with him that night until the breaking of the day, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint through wrestling with him
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49 And at the break of day the man left Jacob there, and he blessed him and went away, and Jacob passed the brook at the break of day, and he halted on his thigh
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50 And the sun rose on him when he had passed the brook, and he came up to the place of his cattle and children
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51 And the blood flowed plentifully in the city, and it was like a brook of water, and the blood flowed like a brook to the outer part of the city, and reached the desert of Bethchorin
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53 And they followed the track of the blood and came to the wall of the city of Gaash, and they saw the blood issue from the city, and they heard the voice of crying from the inhabitants of Gaash, for it ascended to Heaven, and the blood was continuing to flow abundantly like a brook of water
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47 And it was after this that the brook of Egypt was filled above all its sides, and all the inhabitants of Egypt went out, and also the king and princes went out with timbrels and dances, for it was a great rejoicing in Egypt, and a holiday at the time of the inundation of the sea Sihor, and they went there to rejoice all the day
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24 And Esau rose up and returned to Jacob, and did all that Nebayoth the son of Ishmael had advised; and Esau took all the riches that Isaac had left, the souls, the beasts, the cattle and the property, and all the riches; he gave nothing to his brother Jacob; and Jacob took all the land of Canaan, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, and he took it for an everlasting possession, and for his children and for his seed after him forever
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32 And the children of Israel took the land of the two kings of the Amorites, sixty cities which were on the other side of Jordan, from the brook of Arnon to Mount Herman
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23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had
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23 And they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it between two on a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs
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24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence
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21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount
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23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he
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willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days
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8 And Abram and all belonging to him rose up from the brook Mitzraim and came to Egypt; and they had scarcely entered the gates of the city when the guards stood up to them saying Give tithe to the king from what you have and then you may come into the town; and Abram and those who were with him did so
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34 And Abraham still rebuked Satan and Satan went from them and seeing he could not prevail over them he hid himself from them and he went and passed before them in the road; and he transformed himself to a large brook of water in the road and Abraham and Isaac and his two young men reached that place and they saw a brook large and powerful as the mighty waters
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35 And they entered the brook and passed through it and the waters at first reached their legs
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curiosity that brooked no flight or fancy
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It was still a struggle to have That Career, even though achieved in a meritocracy that brooked no barriers of social class
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Soffen turned away looking at some distant place known only to her, and when she finally responded, it was with an insistence that brooked no argument
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She opened her mouth to scream and, at once, strong hands that brooked no gainsaying picked her up and held her tight
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“Fetch rope,” he said, in a tone that brooked no disagreement
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“Really? You can sit here now and tell me, with honesty in your heart and in spite of your dreams last night, that the Lord of the Lammas Lands would have brooked a refusal from you and let you live? You could have walked away from his bed and still continued to serve him, unharmed and whole?”
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The look in his eyes brooked no refusal, so I slipped it into my wallet
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was repeated over and over in a harsh voice that brooked no refusal until, with astonishing docility, both men and women, no longer in lust, wandered with tired perplexed faces to the nearest mat and returned to their apartments
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a tone that brooked no doubt of their veracity
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As he helped Falcon finish strapping her ankle to the splint with the ace bandage, he spoke up in a tone which brooked no argument
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Ignoring her negative responses, Joel firmly overruled her, in a tone which brooked no argument
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Conrad also informed her in a tone of voice which brooked no argument, that he wanted to see her again, at the end of the two weeks, so he could re-examine her ankle, assess how it was mending, and then replace the temporary cast he’d just put on her leg, with a permanent walking one
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As he walked, Joel continued to talk to her, using a matter-of-fact, but implacable tone of voice which brooked no argument
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The man’s regally held shoulders turned as he faced me and said in a voice that brooked no arguing, “On the contrary it is of great importance, what you have accomplished
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All this, you will remember, was put forward in a tone that brooked no contradiction
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’ She said, her tone brooking no argument
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"No!" I was brooking no arguments
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among the stones of the brooks
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All of the land that any of them had purchased with their bits of metal was well into the rural land, the only small holds were right along the brooks out here, the land they discussed was high on the plateaus between
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1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after thee, O God
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It was green and lush with lazy little brooks choked with lesh weed and luse
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Most people who were here played in the bigger pools along the brooks
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Like the ones Brooks and Burroughs and Tolkien and Simmons wrote? What if there actually could be people at other worlds?"
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There were brooks of fresh water running throughout the island and, with storms such as the one that delivered me there, I should have scarcely been surprised
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Henrietta was wearing her low heeled or rather flat shoes and a long skirt and a dark sweater and I was pumping along in my Brooks Brothers racing jacket
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15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter
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24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks
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1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God
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7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away,
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I have had the privilege of working with Bill Brooks, who I think has invented the most powerful selling
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14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
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7 For the Lord your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
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In that year Phillips Brooks, Wm
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The words of command are spoken in a way that brooks no disagreement and he struggles to obey
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7 And you shall declare to that they prepare for me groundsoil and water for I will go out in my anger against them and will cover the whole face of the Earth with the feet of my army and I will give them for a spoil to them: 8 So that their killed shall fill their valleys and brooks and the river shall be filled with their dead till it overflow: 9 And I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the Earth
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“But what if they are true?” Isabella says in a tone that brooks no response
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David Brooks in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal (May 15), titled his
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Garth Brooks was a super star in the music industry
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We drove through the Brooks Range and over the Atigun Pass without any
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At times the atmosphere was damp, indicating the proximity of hidden brooks
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They relied solely on animal trails and rows of polished stone demarcating seasonal brooks
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I said moo, bitch, moo! Shove your processed all beef patty cunt in my face and make me eat you out between the sheets of two powder milk biscuits as the bacon gravy cum wet-spot dries on my chin in the ambiance of Garth Brooks and GPC second hand nicotine
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His Presence is an intense purity, and a fiery type of devotion that brooks no
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Brooks as the Senior Analyst and
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ID/GU team fully emerged during April 2005 with HIV disease review and the analyst incharge was Cydney Brooks and Sylvia Marecki
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A study by Carol Brooks Gardner (1980) focused on the function of men's street
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Morton had told her to contact DS Colin Brooks at Solihull and find out what she could but to be cautious
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No further action! No reason given! DS Brooks was shepherding the case through court for the police so he was spitting blood when he was told the DPP were not going to prosecute
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Brooks has nothing personal against Tennant, though
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If anything to do with him pops up in the system Brooks gets notified straight away
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‘Why does Brooks think they dropped the case?’ asked John Strait
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‘Thanks for the heads-up John,’ she said, ‘As soon as you’re sure about Tennant can you let Gary Hayes know, and ask him to contact DC Colin Brooks at Solihull? He’s expecting the call
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The car containing DS Colin Brooks from Solihull police and his two passengers pulled into the incident room’s car park behind the church hall
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DS Brooks had called ahead when they were minutes away, and Detective Superintendent Demery and DC Gary Hayes were standing in the car park waiting for them as he parked up
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DS Brooks knew Tennant’s background
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‘Fifty or sixty!’ said DS Brooks, raising his voice towards her, ‘and you expect us to believe it was for collectors!’
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dressed in his Brooks Brothers grey pinstriped suit with light green
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(The problems encountered in the development of the OS/360 are legendary, and are described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month - a book that has become a classic of software engineering
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Wait for the great debate between Richard Dawkins and William Lane Craig (who I am not a huge fan of) or Daniel Dennet and some missional church leader like Rice Brooks or K
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I passed by Faneuil Hall Marketplace, which was a melting pot of designer labels, including the safari stock, the classic khaki persuasion and the Brooks Brothers and Sisters who strolled along with their hands in their pockets anx-234
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Brooks Brothers was
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Jotbathah is described as “a land of brooks of water” and was
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Several minutes later after reaching one of the small, slow moving, babbling brooks which ran through the backside of their property, Paul began to hear the distinct crunch crunch crunch crunch sound of a good size, four-legged animal heading in his direction
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Brooks abruptly interjected before he had a chance to finish what he was about to say
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Brooks offered Mrs
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Brooks said, shaking Ellen’s hand
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“I’m Chuck Taylor and this is Scout Brooks
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Your friends, Scout Brooks and Chuck Taylor, are not who you think they are
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His claimed, and highly emotional, priority of protecting Rebekah Brooks will be sorely tested in the upcoming weeks
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Maybe Mrs Brooks will be the next concession Murdoch trades to restore his reputation
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Certainly Mr Murdoch’s daughter who said that Brooks had ruined the paper’s reputation (her words were more colourful than mine), would play the Brooks card sooner rather than later
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David Brooks in his book “The Social Animal”, tells the story of an academic study at Stamford University when 3 separate teams of randomly chosen students were selected to solve a complex math’s problem, that required group interaction
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Make the female lines like brooks that have dried up in
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have been treated so badly by a totalitarian regime that brooks no
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Aaron sees a few famous actors who enter the store including Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, and Mel Brooks
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Brooks found that religious belief was the strongest predictor of giving to
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I don’t pretend to know what happened to Brooks VanReit before any of this
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It had its origins in a manner of speaking more than a decade before when the attractive Rebekah Brooks was appointed editor and led a campaign to name and shame paedophiles and seeking public access to the Sex Offenders Register which was now known as Sarah’s Law
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In 2003 Brooks took over editorship of The Sun newspaper and was replaced at the News of the World by the man who would later become the spin doctor for the Prime Minister, Andy Coulson
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pre-game speech and attempted Herb Brooks impression
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Garth Brooks and Chris LeDeau, and "Ghost Riders In the
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The brooks glide down the hillsides
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Then tomorrow I can go on to Deadhorse (this would suit me, as I'd planned to go there from Fairbanks, because it's the nearest settlement to the part of Brooks Range that I want to visit), and as it is unaffected by all the smoke, I can easily fly from there to the camp
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With great difficulty, Greg has managed to fly to Bettles, a settlement on the southern side of Brooks Range
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The whole point of being here is the hunt for Dall sheep and caribou in Brooks Range
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Brooks Range is the most northern part of the Rocky Mountains and lies entirely within the Arctic circle
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It was named in 1925, after Alfred Hulse Brooks, the leading Alaskan geologist of the United States Geological Survey, from 1903 until his death in 1924
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Everywhere else on Brooks Range the temperature is rising; but at Kavik they are still having heavy frosts
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The prospectors needed a base close to Brooks Range, enabling them to safely get to the oil-fields beside the mountain, whenever they wished
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We establish yet again that Brooks Range is covered in snow, which would make spotting the sheep in their white coats rather difficult, so Greg decides to take our equipment straight to the caribou and bear-hunting camp, and we must wait for him here
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Many researchers have tried to decipher the pattern of movement of the Brooks Range caribou, but so far there has been no study that has bee of any practical value to a hunter
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When hunting in Brooks Range you can't walk normally, or even in a straight line
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What would a Hungarian say if he had to carry a stag, complete with antlers, on his shoulders for 10 miles back to the hunting-lodge? How many of us would want to go stag-hunting under those regulations, and how many would try to evade them? And we haven't even mentioned the fact that 10 miles on Brooks Range is the equivalent of 50 on one of our pleasant Hungarian forest paths
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I can't remember if it was Greg, or Striker, who told me the story about their archer friend who hunted Dall sheep in Brooks Range
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When I flew to Brooks Range I could see thousands of lakes beneath me, but on this flight I can see literally tens of thousands
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At the start of my trip I had two lens covers, but I lost the rear one while battling my way through a thicket on Brooks Range
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I'm a bit concerned as, in Brooks Range, my sleeping bag wasn't really warm enough
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Greg and Striker, the great experts at Brooks Range, treated me with endless patience, even though I couldn't understand any of the local slang
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Yes, it is the legendary Alaskan mountain guide himself, with whom I shot the Dall sheep a while back in Brooks Range
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When I was in Brooks Range I questioned Greg about this boat, whereupon he became a little indignant and corrected me, saying "It's not a boat, it's a yacht
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325 caliber WSM rifle along, which I have seen already at Brooks Range
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In Brooks Range there is both the time and the opportunity to watch the bear for a longer period - there is very little plant cover for them there - but the South Alaskan coast is a more difficult place
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This was well-illustrated by Mark's case, when, during my first Alaskan hunt in Brooks Range, using his
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One is a light-build S&W model, like the one my friend Randy has, and which I shot with in Brooks Range
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� Domination brooks no difference, no differentiation from the categories of existence dictated by the dominator
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The snow capped ridges of the mountains rose up to the sky to our right, as everywhere gurgling brooks ran down from the mountains spilling their cold waters into the seas of grass on their endless journey to the sea
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For if there are some masterful spirits who can stand upon the edge of the precipice, observing—without any recoil—the millions falling in one broad unbroken stream into the fiery surges below, there, "Thick as leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa," to remain in torment forever—I was one of those, the majority of Christian spectators— who find repose for their minds alone in the feminine sleights of forgetting or overlaying the daily remembrance of the terrible fact,—that they live in a world, the certain destiny of whose dense unevangelised population—after every deduction for lunatics, idiots, and children dying in infancy—is of a character to fill the creation with everlasting dismay, and to draw from all ranks of being a shout of congratulation for those on whom the blessing of insanity or the hand of the infanticide fell
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He had called Andrea and she had brought along Brooks, Layla and the others
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” Brooks raised his eyebrows
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Dominic returned a second later and took Brooks to England leaving Holly alone in the apartment
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When they blinked back to the apartment Andrea and Brooks were already back
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Honour and virtue are the ornaments of the mind, without which the body, though it be so, has no right to pass for beautiful; but if modesty is one of the virtues that specially lend a grace and charm to mind and body, why should she who is loved for her beauty part with it to gratify one who for his pleasure alone strives with all his might and energy to rob her of it? I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of the mountains I find society, the clear waters of the brooks are my mirrors, and to the trees and waters I make known my thoughts and charms
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And if this be true, as it is, why should I now take the trouble to strip stark naked, or do mischief to these trees which have done me no harm, or why am I to disturb the clear waters of these brooks which will give me to drink whenever I have a mind? Long live the memory of Amadis and let him be imitated so far as is possible by Don Quixote of La Mancha, of whom it will be said, as was said of the other, that if he did not achieve great things, he died in attempting them; and if I am not repulsed or rejected by my Dulcinea, it is enough for me, as I have said, to be absent from her