Sentence example with the word 'brooked'

brooked

Last update: July 4, 2015


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The striking and universal success which crowned his work on the Suez Cknal gave him an absoluteness of thought which brooked no contradiction, a despotic temper before which every one must bow, and against which, when he had once taken a resolution, nothing could prevail, not even the most authoritative opposition or the most legitimate entreaties.   [Please select]

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There was a commanding tone in her shrill voice that brooked no delay.   [Please select]

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The impertinence of newspaper comment on the military will not be brooked UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATEVER.   [Please select]

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Joe's authoritative tone brooked no delay, so he sprang into the tree like a monkey.   [Please select]

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Yet the imperious nature of the other brooked not even so pointed a rebuke.   [Please select]

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The matter upon which we had come was not one that brooked delay.   [Please select]

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It was evident that he had brooked her refusal as long as he could.   [Please select]

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Wade looked down into the heated face, into the burning eyes; and through the darkness of passion that brooked no interference with its fruition he saw this youth's stark and naked soul.   [Please select]

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The idea of her ever taking off her hat, even figuratively, to John Breen, was not to be brooked,--not for an instant.   [Please select]

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