"Brooks" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can render one who is afflicted," said Bishop Brooks, "is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able ...
— An Iron Will • Orison Swett Marden
... the shortcomings of the McClintocks did not appear particularly heinous. All our neighbors were living in log houses and frame shanties built beside the brooks, or set close against the hillsides, and William's small unpainted dwelling seemed a natural feature of the landscape, but as the years passed and other and more enterprising settlers built big barns, and shining white houses, the gray and leaning stables, sagging ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... through that country of mountains, whose steep and rocky sides are overgrown with forest trees. Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish. Fiercely shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the heavy masses of snow ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... carriage-house and the like. A very pretty settlement can be made of this with fields of growing grain, brooks, water-wheels, etc. ...
— What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... Edward Brooks," said the little stranger, "but everybody calls me Sandy. Do you like Sandy ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Country • Laura Lee Hope
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