ice-brook

This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.

Dracula 2003

This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats - these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind - work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.

The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001

For a moment or two he heard nothing but the ripple and plash of the ice-brook descending the side of the berg fifty yards away; but with the burial of his enemy, the lad's self-control had deserted him, and he burst into a passionate outbreak of sobs and tears.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

The lad received the usage of a sword in the forging, extremes of furnace and ice-brook.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, self-command and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats -- these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind -- work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.

Dracula 1897

This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.

Dracula Bram Stoker 1879

I believe the old reading changed to _ice-brook_ is right.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746