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Brooke

brʊk
WordNet
View of the Heber's Ghyll brook near Ilkley
View of the Heber's Ghyll brook near Ilkley
  1. (n) Brooke
    English lyric poet (1887-1915)
Illustrations
Landscape with windmill. In the foreground a brook.
Landscape with windmill. In the foreground a brook.
A brook flows through a forest on the left. A path runs to the right and the entrance gate can be seen in the distance. A man is standing at the entrance gate. The letter D is depicted at the top right.
A brook flows through a forest on the left. A path runs to the right and the entrance gate can be seen in the distance. A man is standing at the entrance gate. The letter D is depicted at the top right.
Landscape with half-timbered house and brook, with a standing wax girl with a bucket.
Landscape with half-timbered house and brook, with a standing wax girl with a bucket.
John the Baptist baptizes Christ with water from a brook. The Holy Spirit comes down to Christ in the form of a dove. A group of men are lining up to be baptized by John as well.
John the Baptist baptizes Christ with water from a brook. The Holy Spirit comes down to Christ in the form of a dove. A group of men are lining up to be baptized by John as well.
Forest landscape with Elijah resting on a rock along the brook Kerit, across the Jordan, where he settled during a protracted drought. In the margin a Bible quote from 1 Ki. 17 in Latin.
Forest landscape with Elijah resting on a rock along the brook Kerit, across the Jordan, where he settled during a protracted drought. In the margin a Bible quote from 1 Ki. 17 in Latin.
Brook in Bolton Woods
An overgrown Gothic ruin by moonlight, on the left a brook and landscape with pine trees in the horizon. In the front right, a monk sits on a stone, lost in thought. This is the ruin of the abbey of Villers-la-Ville near Brussels.
An overgrown Gothic ruin by moonlight, on the left a brook and landscape with pine trees in the horizon. In the front right, a monk sits on a stone, lost in thought. This is the ruin of the abbey of Villers-la-Ville near Brussels.
Porcelain soup plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, black and gold. In the center the arms of the Sayer, Woodhave and Brooke families, with as a helmet mark an arm holding a dragon's head; a spearhead border around the weapon. On the wall a honeycomb pattern with a stylized lotus, interrupted by lobed cartouches with a fruit branch (pomegranate, peach). On the rim again the helmet mark, fruit branches, symbols of happiness (ruyi-scepter, lotus stem) for the 'three friends of winter' (pine, prunus, bamboo), finger lemon on an artimisia leaf and a piece of fruit in a bowl; on the edge also a narrow band with a decorative pattern. Four flower sprays on the back. Some chips in the rim. Coat of arms porcelain with enamel colors.
Porcelain soup plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, black and gold. In the center the arms of the Sayer, Woodhave and Brooke families, with as a helmet mark an arm holding a dragon's head; a spearhead border around the weapon. On the wall a honeycomb pattern with a stylized lotus, interrupted by lobed cartouches with a fruit branch (pomegranate, peach). On the rim again the helmet mark, fruit branches, symbols of happiness (ruyi-scepter, lotus stem) for the 'three friends of winter' (pine, prunus, bamboo), finger lemon on an artimisia leaf and a piece of fruit in a bowl; on the edge also a narrow band with a decorative pattern. Four flower sprays on the back. Some chips in the rim. Coat of arms porcelain with enamel colors.
Quotations
Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
W. Secker
Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
William Shakespeare
John Dryden
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
William Shakespeare
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Idioms

A shallow brook babbles the loudest - People who are loud and talk a lot usually have nothing of substance to say. This contrasts with "Still waters run deep." Other versions are "Shallow brooks babble loudest" and "Shallow brooks are noisy."

Usage in the news

A second man has been arrested in connection with the horrific murder of Cathouse beauty Brooke Phillips, RadarOnline.com has learned. radaronline.com

Sexy Brooke Phillips Worked At The Moonlite Bunny Ranch. radaronline.com

Brooke Phillips At The Moonlite Bunny Ranch. radaronline.com

The man arrested in connection with the shocking murder of pregnant Cathouse prostitute turned reality TV star Brooke Phillips and several others was a champion wrestler and cage fighter, RadarOnline.com has learned. radaronline.com

KEVIN DIAZ and JENNIFER BROOKS, Star Tribune. startribune.com

Drama Directed by: Frank Lloyd Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin. mountainx.com

The Good News Celia Brooks Brown balances the freshness and crunch of raw carrot, cucumber and cherry tomatoes with soft, smoky eggplant seasoned with a lime juice, soy and chile dressing. foodandwine.com

Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including what Tuesday's telling primaries mean for the general election and the road ahead for financial reform. pbs.org

Shields and Brooks on Rand Paul Comments, Dangers of Centrism . pbs.org

Last week, Brookings published a paper by my colleague, Jonathan Rothwell, focused on the extent to which low-income kids are concentrated in low-performing schools, as measured by test scores. tnr.com

Holly Brook didn't have a problem fitting in. spin.com

When 15-year-old future silent film star Louise Brooks heads to New York in 1922, she takes with her a 36-year-old chaperone . csmonitor.com

Brookings fellow Gary Burtless explains how Barack Obama could win even if the economy doesn't improve. usnews.com

David Brooks on President Obama's constantly delayed promises of tackling the deficit. tnr.com

Mirroring Brookhaven National Laboratory's Computational Science Center, Stony Brook University announced today it plans to establish its own Institute for Advanced Computational Science. libn.com

Usage in scientific papers

We analyze the length of the geodesics using the method developed by Brooks and Makover in .
The length of closed geodesics on random Riemann Surfaces

In () Brooks and Makover showed that the Cheeger constant of random Riemann surfaces is bounded from below.
The length of closed geodesics on random Riemann Surfaces

FG would like to thank Chris Brook, Victor Debattista, Elena D’Onghia, Adriano Fontana, George Lake, Anatoly Klypin and Matthias Steinmetz for helpful and sometimes intense conversations.
Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation I: Star Formation, Feedback, Resolution and Matching the Tully--Fisher Relation (among other things)

FG was a Brooks Fellow when this pro ject started.
Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation I: Star Formation, Feedback, Resolution and Matching the Tully--Fisher Relation (among other things)

Part of this research was done during my visits to Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France and the 3rd Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics at Stony Brook University, NY. I thank these institutions for their kind hospitality.
Black hole entropy and topological strings on generalized CY manifolds

Usage in literature

He is like a little brook making beautiful some meadow or strip of woodland; but only mighty rivers reach the ocean. "American Men of Mind" by Burton E. Stevenson

Nothing here but a little brook flowing in. "Days Off" by Henry Van Dyke

The porter told Mr Brookes who I was, and left me. "Japhet in Search of a Father" by Frederick Marryat

The Cascade Brook here falls over a precipice of about 150 feet. "The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864" by Various

Go through the forest, and cross the brook. "Field and Forest" by Oliver Optic

A friendly magistrate sentenced Brooks to a nominal fine and so forestalled further prosecution. "The Negro and the Nation" by George S. Merriam

Those who succeed in jumping across the brook continue round the course and jump again, this time increasing the width of the brook. "Games and Play for School Morale" by Various

That was why they made their home in the low meadow, where Broad Brook ran deeper and more quietly than in the hillside pasture. "The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse" by Arthur Scott Bailey

Ned Brooke was hanging around as usual, watching us furtively. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have left my family brooks a long time since, and I'm going on my travels to be somebody. "The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851" by Various

Usage in poetry
And down to you the happy brooks,
A hundred laughters, come
To find in your pellucid depth
Peace, purity, a home.
"Immortal Eve - III" by Manmohan Ghose
The brook that down the valley
So musically drips,
Flowed never half so brightly
As the light laugh from her lips.
"A Laugh -- And A Moan" by Abram Joseph Ryan Author object (8)
As the rain comes from the cloud,
And the brook from the ground;
As suddenly, low or loud,
Out of silence a sound;
"Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author object (294)
I saw a noble—looking maiden
Close Dante's solemn book,
Go, and return with linen laden,
And wash it in the brook.
"Two Visions" by Alfred Austin Author object (26)
"IS she sitting in the meadow
Where the brook leaps to the mill,
Leaning low against the poplar,
Dreamily and still?
"No News From The War" by Augusta Davies Webster
Struggles bring a development
That will not brook defeat;
Within us dwells an element
That makes just contest sweet.
"My Room In Boyhood's Days" by Jared Barhite