Brooks
[bruks]
Definition
(noun.) United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963).
Typist: Stacey--From WordNet
Examples
- This was the company of Captain Horace Brooks, of the artillery, acting as infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Brooks and springs formed in this way are constant feeders of rivers and lakes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Over babbling brooks they took impossible leaps, which seemed to keep them whole days suspended in the air. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I explained to Brooks briefly what I had discovered and what I was about to do. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You are Brooks,' said the gentleman. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She strayed absorbedly on, over the brooks. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Streams usually carry mud and sand along with them; this is particularly well seen after a storm when rivers and brooks are muddy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- No reinforcements had yet come up except Brooks's company, and the position we had taken was too advanced to be held by so small a force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Sherman