His face was perfectly grave, but the joke was beginning to prey upon his vitals in a manner which Brooked no delay.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
Chivalrous, susceptible, with a genuine feeling for the poor man's case, and a genuine enthusiasm for social reform, a warm friend, a vindictive enemy, full of ambition both of the nobler and the more vulgar type, beset with an importunate vanity and given to primitive lusts; generous qualities and churlish throve and strove in him side by side, and governed or misgoverned a will to which opposition was almost a native and necessary element, and which yet-or perhaps rather, therefore-Brooked no check.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The idea of her ever taking off her hat, even figuratively, to John Breen, was not to be Brooked,-not for an instant.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith