It seemed to him that he rejoiced with the thirsty grass over which the rain-streams were running, that his heart filled with the shrunken becks as the flood leapt along them.
The river cried hoarsely to her from below, the becks in the little ghylls were full and thunderous; and beside her over the smooth grass slid many a new-born rivulet, the child of the storm, and destined to vanish with the night.
She heard the gurgling of the becks and the wayside streams, and the whistling of the boys in the barn, and the tinkling of the sheep-bells on the highest fells.
The becks ran dry and Swirtle Tarn shrank till it was little better than a farm-yard puddle.
Since the arrival of the Becks he had become more and more difficult to get on with; and Elizabeth's secret, self-denying struggle grew proportionately harder.
And as I thus turned and turned about the gibbet, what should I strike on, but a weird old wife, that sat behind a leg of it, and nodded, and talked aloud to herself with becks and courtesies.
From the Pennines and its eastern fringes, numerous becks hurry to the Eden, and from the west, by long courses with the grain of the country, many little rivers eventually reach the generous shingly bed of the same hospitable stream.
One is now among beauteous short-lived rivers and becks innumerable that almost everybody--for who has not been in Lakeland?
For west of Kenwith two becks in one chanell doo fall into it, which be namelesse, and but of a little length.
Crossing to the basement of Meg-Laundress, he made some inquiries concerning the Becks and was told all which that talkative woman knew or suspected.
The Becks must live and only by their united industry had they been able to keep even their tiny roof over their heads thus far.
Here, too, came other well-known litterateurs to see and converse with the rising poet and journalist, and perchance to go a-fishing with him in the becks and tarns of the neighbourhood.
The pools of the Fell becks abound at such times with speckled brown trout, and are visited by another poacher--the otter.
Black seams and scars picked out the dread ravines of the hills; and the fell becks tore down the slopes bearing tons of loose debris.
Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
The becks had shrunk in the shady ghylls and a thin white line was all that marked the fall where the main stream leaped down the Force Crag.
The becks began to roar in the gyhlls, and threads of foam glimmered in the mist.
They broke upon the hill tops in heavy showers, gray mist drifted about the wet slopes, the becks roared in the ghylls, and threads of foam that wavered in the wind streaked the crags.
Further to the west there are a series of beautiful dales, watered by beckswhose sources are among the Cleveland Hills.
These baby rivers are calledbecks in Westmoreland--some of the big ones, too, indeed.
Along the shore a quiet observer may sometimes startle one from his repose, and in bowery nooks or up the mouths of the becks may note the blue gleam of the flitting kingfisher.
These great waves dash back the stones and gravel brought down by the becks and spread it northwards, embanking it in a ridge under the water from this point to Fir Point opposite.
It seemed to him that he rejoiced with the thirsty grass over which the rain streams were running, that his heart filled with the shrunken becks as the flood leapt along them.
The task of the black guards who accompany these houris is anything but a sinecure, and "nods and becks and wreathed smiles" are freely bestowed on the male passers-by in spite of etiquette and eunuchs.
So he dropped Stephen, and dropped Julius; and began to talk about the fish in the becks and tarns, and the new breed of sheep he was trying in the lower "walks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "becks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
