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Dark clouds were brooding over the city.
He's the deep brooding type.
He sat brooding over his troubles all day.
When a patient of this class, however, goes out for the sake of exercise only, it does not in general produce so good an effect, as might be expected; for he is continually brooding over the state of his health: there is no new object to arrest his attention, and he is constantly reminded of the cause of his riding.
The Fork-tailed Petrel is a close sitter, remaining brooding over its egg until dragged out.
Of late he had observed that her mind was greatly occupied; she was brooding over something; he feared that it might be something to do with the Associated Dressmakers' financial position.
’” From this it seems clear, as{119} Captain Verner says, that this plover has learnt that with judicious damping, the sand and the sun will do the hatching, thereby removing the necessity of having to spend long days and nights brooding over the eggs.
Memories beset his brooding brain.
Rest suddenly possessed the discreet vaulted cell, rest of warm and brooding air.
It had dropped into a watchful and brooding expression,-most likely when all the things about her had become transfixed,-and it looked as if nothing could ever lift it up again.
It happened so to catch her fancy that she took it up in a low brooding voice as if she were singing in her sleep.
In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking,-of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style,-of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food,-of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,-of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,-in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.
I told her so, as she sat brooding after this outburst.
I believed not too, for, although in my brooding state I had taken no especial notice of the people behind me, I thought it likely that a face at all disfigured would have attracted my attention.
Soon, likewise, my old native town will loom upon me through the haze of memory, a mist brooding over and around it; as if it were no portion of the real earth, but an overgrown village in cloud-land, with only imaginary inhabitants to people its wooden houses and walk its homely lanes, and the unpicturesque prolixity of its main street.
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