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• No doubt that was why the brook was there--so that persons coming out of the pool would not drip water on the lobby floor, and thus betray the secret entrance The occupants of the fake summer hotel surrounded them. —  028 - The Roar Devil
• Seeing a line of willows in front of me, I shouted to Peter to come along, as I thought if the brook was ahead of us I could not possibly keep close to him, going at that pace. —  Margot Asquith, An Autobiography
• Across the brook was a flimsy wooden bridge, missing several crucial planks. —  Challenging Destiny #19
• Beaver--brook, the Indian, had already disappeared in a room assigned to him at the rear of the hallway. —  168 - The Death Lady
• Both the mountains and the brook were the Indian Matteawan, the "Council of Good Fur," but the Dutch christened it Vis Kill or Fish Creek, and the more musical native name had to give way The first house on the right after crossing the stream is one of the Colonial relics of the place, but the principal buildings of interest are the Episcopal and Dutch churches. —  The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five

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