What is "mountain brook"

Usage examples of "mountain brook".

The press is going to be all over us for turning her loose, and if one of those guys follows her and finds out she's living with a Mountain Brook detective, our collective asses will go up in flames.

The roar of the mountain brook, dashing over its bed of pebbles, rising out of the ravine, and spreading, as it were, a mist of sound through all the forest (continuous beating waves that have the rhythm of eternity in them), and the fitful movement of the air- tides through the balsams and firs and the giant pines,--how these grand symphonies shut out the little exasperations of our vexed life!

Tudur ap Rhyss maenol lay in a cleft where a mountain brook came down into the river Ceiriog, and his boundaries were well but unobtrusively guarded in these shaken days, for a two-man patrol came out on the path, one on either side, before Cadfaels party were out of the scrub forest above the valley.

Shortly they came to a mountain brook, and left the path to follow it, not downstream toward the valley, which was predictable, but upstream.

A small mountain brook trickled from its mouth, and a dense thicket of spindly pines filled it seemingly from wall to wall.

I also began hearing, faintly and far away, the sound of running water like that of a mountain brook splashing and sliding over its rock-strewn bed.

Her eyes were brown under long black lashes, the clear brown of the mountain brook in autumn.

We cooked them for an early supper, or half cooked them, by a mountain brook, and ate one of them plus the head of the other.

And the dark liquid came spilling forth, gurgling happily like a mountain brook.