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- noun Plural form of
brookside .
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Examples
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And she always wore things in summer which gave out cunning suggestions of shady brooksides, and managed -- in that theatrical way of hers -- the effect of bringing a breeze in with her.
Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918
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Eat of the Lotus by the brooksides sparingly, unless thou wouldst have surcease of memory, which is to become a child of Daphne.
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_Preferred Habitat_ -- Escaped from gardens to brooksides, marshes, and low meadows.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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_Preferred Habitat_ -- Moist open woods and thickets, brooksides.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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What if I could pray aloud or to myself as I went along the brooksides a cheerful prayer like the birds?
The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879
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Catbirds still practice their feeble improvisations and mimicries in the thickets along the brooksides as evening comes on, and of the multitudes of robins a few are certain to be heard warbling before the day is over.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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The sun shone clear and hot, and the guests in the garden were glad to rest in the shaded places of promenade along the brooksides and under the beeches and soaring pines of the avenues.
The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866
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= -- In various soils and situations, fertile slopes, brooksides, rocky hills.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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And the last foxglove-bells are nearly fallen; and over all my fields and by the brooksides are coming up the burdock, and the coarse and vainly white aster, and the black knapweeds; and there is only one flower left to be loved among the grass, -- the soft, warm-scented Brunelle.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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On south-sloping brooksides should smile in the light,
The Frost Spirit and Others from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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