Brooded
[bru:did]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Brood
Typist: Rachel
Examples
- How I grieved that he brooded over pain, and pain from such a cause! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Antiquity brooded above this region, business was banished thence. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Again Madame Olenska brooded silently; then she said: After all, it was to be expected. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In silence, but without respite, she had brooded over these scenes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It brooded upon the _Revanche_, the return match with Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We have sat through the long watches of the night while Edison brooded on the real solution of the swarming problems. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was over these few worthless papers that she brooded and brooded. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Rachel