brook

I hear the drone of Tibetan bowls mixing with an insect chorus, scattered yawns, and what sounds like a flowing brook.

Henry will brook no defiance, no matter how allusive, and so Cromwell must die under the shadow of an axe.

He told how his father, a police chief in small-town Iowa, was fired because he stood up to the local good-old-boy network, refusing, on principle, to brook their petty tyrannies.

But some parents, wisely, can’t brook a surveillance state in their home and choose to not inform their kids of this bit of the lore.

Water rose so quickly in a brook in the town that it caused the wall holding it back to collapse, sending water gushing into the street in seconds along the streets.