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Example sentences for "little brook"

  • I was following a little brook, which led me by its singing to a deep dingle in the very heart of the big woods.

  • Down at the lower end of the same deer path, where it stopped at the lake to let the wild things drink, was a little brook.

  • One morning as she sat by a little brook, thinking sadly, she suddenly saw a young stranger approaching, and got up quickly, intending to avoid him.

  • Night overtook him at the foot of a great rock, and he fell asleep on a bank of moss, lulled by the music of a little brook.

  • On consulting her mother, they decided that after a day at Meteghan they would go on to Little Brook, and spend at least two or three days there--if possible at the Hotel Paris, which the teachers recommended.

  • You will stay in Little Brook a week," said the two Connecticut teachers, bidding them good-bye.

  • We must find time to read Longfellow while we are at Little Brook.

  • To retire into a lonely wood behind his father's house, and teach a little brook, which ran through it, to take a thousand fantastic forms, was to Charles the sweetest recreation he could enjoy.

  • Little brook, sing to me, Sing about a bumble-bee That tumbled from a lily-bell and mumbled grumblingly Because he wet the film Of his wings and had to swim, While the water bugs raced round and laughed at him.

  • He knelt at a little brook to slake his thirst, but did not stop long there.

  • Then at a word from Ross all halted at a beautiful glade, across which ran a little brook of cold water.

  • The brooch had come undone as she spoke, and a sudden gust of wind blew the Queen's shawl across a little brook.

  • Alice had seated herself on the bank of a little brook, with the great dish on her knees, and was sawing away diligently with the knife.

  • We encamped among some trees by the side of a little brook, and here during the whole of the next day we lay waiting for Bisonette, but no Bisonette appeared.

  • We were encamped by the side of a little brook in an extensive hollow of the plain.

  • And after it had been considering the matter a few hundred years, it sent a little brook down to inquire.

  • She found some fine eel grass in a little brook, and she was eating the green stems, and thinking how nice it was, when all at once she heard a funny noise.

  • It got smaller and smaller, until it was like a little brook, with rushes bending over it, while the water whispered to the green stems.

  • There was a little brook running in and out among the trees, and it sounded like music when it went over the stones.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little away; little before his death; little closer; little comfort; little dears; little disappointed; little doubtful; little drop; little food; little grim; little hesitation; little hole; little honey; little horn; little interest; little juice; little laugh; little lemon; little mother; little orange; little rabbit; little remarkable; little start; little supper; little wood; wherein thou