单词 | water brook |
释义 | > as lemmaswater brook water brook n. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xli[i]. 1 Like as the hert desyreth the water brokes. 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XI. xiv. xii. 275 Some travellers even describe them [sc. New Holland and New Guinea] as abounding with..pleasant and wholsome water-brooks. 1841 ‘An Indian Officer’ Society in India I. xx. 207 England, for which..his soul panted even as the hart for the waterbrooks. 1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 99 The cool water-brooks which traverse the slopes. 1962 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 134 My realm of summer is become a realm Of fields be-rimed and waterbrooks in spate. 1988 E. Friberg tr. Kalevala xxi. 182/2 It flowed on like a river, Sparkling like a water brook. < as lemmas |
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