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In the absence of brook trout, up to one of two nonnative trouts would be substituted as an intolerant species.
In England, for instance, the words brook, burn, and beck show broad regional distribution.
The stones on the bottom of the brook were flat and greenish in the wan afternoon light.
Another physical characteristic of the brook trout is an adipose fin and a caudal fin that is slightly forked.
The waters of a nearby bubbling brook lasso me in and all of the sudden whammo.
All is spread out in a picturesque wooded glen with a brook flowing serenely nearby.
When he was nine he left a two-year-old child in a brook with a cut head, and received five years in a reformatory school as punishment.
In tributaries feeding the lake, brook trout competed with young bull trout for food and in the lake, lake trout preyed on bull trout.
Resident Nick Jansen, 59, says Swindon Council is failing to maintain the brook, which runs along the rear of the estate.
Cooling a bottle of white wine in a babbling brook at your picnic site is a lovely thought, but in reality it is not a sensible one.
Iona's laugh, a sound like a babbling brook on a summer afternoon, broke the spell.
The brook beside the castle was babbling peacefully as a warm breeze swept over the meadow.
Now a gorgeous 3-mile trail runs up and over the hills, past soap-root, buckeyes, and manzanitas and across a babbling brook.
There in the bottom of the brook was a seam of amethyst crystals that averaged perhaps to be one half inch thick and a inch long.
A waterfall cascaded behind it, the tower surrounded by the pool at the foot of the falls, and a brook meandered away from it.
They have a holy duty, they say, to brook no compromise with separatists, but instead to eliminate them by military means.
Some of the predatory fish of the ecozone are brook trout and Atlantic tomcod.
A small millpond on Faunce's property powered a bellows for the furnace that the brook is named for.
Farther upstream, two branches of the river offer wilder rainbows and brook trout.
Unable to help her legally, as her case had already been dismissed at every level, brook referred her to me.
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Grand free open-air lunch under the spreading sycamores and by the babbling brook.
A swingeing St. Christopher, fording a brook with a child on his shoulders, cannot fail of attracting attention.
The Dolly Varden is the only char native to the Pacific Coast, and like the Eastern brook trout is not properly a trout.
Stone on to stone, I skipped across a brook, dowsing one leg to the thigh in its bubbling water.
Sometimes he goes to the brook and sits on a stone by a pool there, while I go wading and get my stummick wet and drippy and cool.
While luncheon is preparing in the shade of the terebinth, I wade into the brook and cast my fly along the ripples.
The carpenter bee, who lived in the big poplar by the brook, wasn't building a house for Mrs. Ladybug.
Is the stream going steadily on, or is it rather like a babbling brook, making a pleasant murmur but with little power?
At last our old friend, the brook, peeped out again from the duskiness, and we pitched our camp on the bank.
The country is one threaded on every hand by eas and brook that drop down the mountain sides at almost every yard of the way.
The rain was steadily beating on the roof, a newly made brook was gurgling and swashing past the door.
The little brook between the lakes runs along like a chain pump and contains about as many trout.
That the brook flowed from the cienaga, or marsh, where the Navajos were rendezvoused, was an easy inference.
Thus the frailty and superficiality of our own judgments cannot brook contradiction.
How could you brook to go backward, instead of forward, in those duties which you now so exemplarily perform?
They went over to Orchard Slope by the short cut across the brook and up the firry hill grove.
Then it fell over on its side, bridging blackly the white ice of the brook.
Now we shall find the brook flowing in its channel with the flood plain deposits left high and dry.
My early life ran quiet beside a babbling brook, and there I sat and fished trout and fried them over an outdoor fire.
Down the hill they thundered, over the brook and up to the scene of the contest.
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