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    1. · Don’t brood about losses or failures, take corrective actions for the future


    2. They weren’t interested in me for myself, just as a brood mare


    3. It takes me a few moments to remember: My sister Chryssa reacted exactly in the same way when she visited us the other day, together with her husband and her baby boy! What's the matter with all hens and they don't want me to touch their brood? Are they afraid or what?


    4. And these powers brood over cities, nations, and areas


    5. Jake said the dragons were a good brood


    6. these weird black spots brood quietly on the maps


    7. the madly copulating brood,


    8. All that remains of this story is to say that both Archibald and his darling young lady were married, that they inherited her father's vast fortune, and that, in between location shoots, premieres and promotional tours, they lived happily ever after with an enormous brood of normally featured offspring


    9. lay motionless as the brood ran in terror


    10. to having a brood of grandchildren around my feet

    11. to hatch their brood


    12. Gone were the philosophical tones; it was not a brood, I told


    13. Ideal for brood mares in the last few weeks of pregnancy to strengthen contractions and reduce the risk of haemorrhaging


    14. “What else? Trouble! We have another missing child—this time one of the Parfinns’ brood


    15. While the vast brood of children scattered, Millin poured two cups of water for his guests and bade them sit


    16. Ironbristles just smiled and put his hands on his waist, beaming proudly, “Yep, me maw told me I was the smartest one of the brood! Why, let me tell you, little girl, when I was a wee sprat, I was gonna—”


    17. A mother was expected to defend her brood and to keep her home safe, just as a wolf mother protects her cubs


    18. He wondered if they were petitioners or junior members of the royal brood


    19. Nisaba’s hand had slipped from his own and she now drifted over closer to her mother, who, suddenly alerted, looked to gather in her brood, but of course Mashu was too big for that now


    20. yard with her brood of five kids, letting them play in a small plas-

    21. Ellen, especially, continued to grieve and brood, her long, moody musings broken only by fits of stormy, passionate weeping


    22. But swapping salt fish for fish and chips didn’t curb Aunt Beryl’s breeding, and within seven years’ time she had had a brood of five additional children, for four additional men


    23. His brain told him that he should let her walk out, let her brood over the way she had treated him yesterday, but his soul, his soul pleaded for the opposite, his soul told him to make her stop, make her stay anyway he knew how to


    24. It is said that this small coastal town, of three thousand inhabitants during the months of tourism and two thousand and four hundred during the rest of the year, is located in Alaska’s most idyllic brood of nests and that enjoys abundant wild life


    25. My young brood of three girls was growing up in my birthplace, Ithaca, NY


    26. 34 "Jerusalem Jerusalem that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings and you refused!


    27. “But I didn’t like it! I don’t want to back there again! You frightened me!” I was puzzled by Nuke’s extreme reaction, but later I realized the situation had triggered the lingering fear generated by his traumatic birth and a potentially deadly encounter with furious reptilians who were trying to protect their brood


    28. But it did not good to brood about that)


    29. survey the damage she and her brood of offspring and pets had inflicted on our home in just


    30. “Standards may have slipped in other departments, but as far as us chickens are concerned, we still run a professional, well ordered brood

    31. That news set off a chorus of nervous clucking, and Chardonnay led the brood out of the farmyard


    32. She’s only looking after the interests of the brood


    33. Chardonnay had worked on the farm for years, a model member of the brood who had worked her way steadily up the ranks through hard work, dedication and an unswerving obedience to the rules of the roost


    34. Not to the Mother Hen, the leader of his brood


    35. Chardonnay and the chickens were tiring, and Dawes and Katya were getting the better of their battle with the brood


    36. But now Chardonnay and her brood lay scattered on the ground, exhausted by battle


    37. But hopefully our brood can give us some eggs


    38. It’s not a good thing to brood


    39. At the age of fourteen he had escaped a Dundee slum and swarming brood of siblings by attaching himself to a touring theatre company run by Alwyn and his wife, who were then in their early thirties


    40. His older sister’s divorced and offloads her brood on us far too often, and his older brother’s being sued for maintenance by at least two women

    41. That said, He slowly disappeared, as did the last rays of the sun, which prompted Muktilo to say, “The hour doth brood with mischief, Sire


    42. Without sin they’d have no reason for their existence, so they aren’t going to stop telling everyone that gays are the devil’s brood


    43. repeat them; but otherwise, to brood over them, to be always filling our


    44. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion


    45. With Noah's brood and two by two,


    46. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones the teachers of truth! How often would I have gathered your children together even as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, but you would not let me do it! Behold, your house is about to be left to you desolate! You will many times desire to see me, but you shall not


    47. Cynthia’s sister Mary looked after Terry and her own brood of four children all under the age of six


    48. warbler brood out of the nest


    49. abandoned at the clinic, and a brood of kids


    50. And to her straggling brood the partridge calls;












































    1. Her sad and lonely inner child wandered the dark corridors of a huge adult world, while at the same time she could feel the steam head pressure of outrage building in the magma chambers that brooded darkly in the spaces between her quiet outward persona and her molten core


    2. As he sat in the darkness of his quarters he brooded over why it had all gone so disastrously wrong, how the wormhole generator could have collapsed so terminally that no effort – even after days of rebuilding – was able to recreate anything like a stable field (although he did suspect his supervisors were deliberately not making the effort to have it restored)


    3. As he tore at the flesh of the scrawny squab he'd found under a nearby tree, he brooded on his misfortune


    4. Meanwhile, that threatening sky he'd painted, reddish-brown clouds with blackness behind on the verge of unleashing a storm, brooded over the two of us


    5. If she had been alone, and had brooded over everything, she would have been in an even worse sulk and temper—but somehow the others were so calm and sensible and cheerful


    6. brooded about physical ailments, his body soon became as strong and vigorous


    7. Utter silence brooded over all


    8. Only the age-old silence brooded over the mysterious ruins of Kuthchemes, but Fear was there; Fear quivered in the mind of Shevatas, the thief, driving his breath quick and sharp against his clenched teeth


    9. Over all brooded a silence as sinister as that of a sleeping serpent


    10. Primordial silence brooded over the jungle, in which his yells sounded brittle and hollow as mockery

    11. Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur


    12. She lifted the bolt on the secret door, and a few moments later they were in the streets and hurrying away from the silent square where brooded the age-old shrine of Hanuman


    13. He brooded for an instant, scowling with the intentness of his thoughts; then seized Sancha's olive shoulder in a grip that made her wince


    14. A silence as absolute as that of the forest brooded over the walls and minarets


    15. The same enchanted quiet brooded over all


    16. Grim and horrific it brooded there, like the shadow cast by one of the apish gods that squat on the shadowy altars of dim temples in the dark land of Stygia


    17. Over all brooded the citadel, like a condor stooping above its prey, intent on its own dark meditations


    18. ” He brooded a bit in silence, then looked up and smiled at them


    19. Back home in Canada Harry brooded


    20. I brooded about it and could not sleep

    21. I brooded on how I could take a peek inside


    22. When she realised that he had no idea of what she was talking about, she related to him how her gay friend, the boy that Siri had verbally abused, had brooded over his sexuality for months following the incident in the restaurant


    23. Though her air implied happiness, internally she brooded


    24. You could see the Cerrillos Hills, flanked by the huge rock mastiff called Devil’s Throne; beyond them, the Jemez Mountains brooded on the far horizon


    25. De Maisonneuve brooded over that for a few seconds, then relented with a sigh


    26. Remember in Genesis, the spirit of God "brooded over the abyss"; and when the word was spoken, the spirit moved


    27. An hour a day, and with two years left I brooded on my time constraints


    28. As I walked I brooded over Andrei, trying to undo the knots


    29. "Though I sincerely hope that he does," Juko brooded


    30. While in the sitting room, my heart started collapsing as I brooded over my wife’s attitude

    31. “Is that what the revolution has been reduced to – a soup kitchen?” a sitting shadow brooded


    32. This year the manoeuvres are up our way, so that we are blest with more than our usual share of attention, and wherever you go you see soldiers, and the holy calm that has brooded over us all the summer has given place to a perpetual running to and fro of officers' servants, to meals being got ready at all hours, to the clanking of spurs and all those other mysterious things on an officer that do clank whenever he moves, and to the grievous wailings of my unfortunate menials, who are quite beside themselves, and know not whither to turn for succour


    33. For the rest of the night they brooded on and off like this, only making the odd comment here and there, but returning to their tumbling thoughts when a lull in conversation took place


    34. The valley brooded in sullen lushness; and the branches of broom they carried with them in the carriage cut through the sombre background like a golden knife


    35. He had brooded in silence over a


    36. It was a conspiracy, she brooded


    37. You have brooded too


    38. "The phrase is the height of sarcasm," brooded Olin


    39. As he sat that February evening he brooded over the fact that Jarad Hortmuller had for the second time escaped from the Concord prison, strangling a guard to death and obtaining his weapon in the process


    40. She’d brooded most of the day on this

    41. He puzzled, and even brooded, but mostly questioned the wretched vacancy within his heart


    42. She often brooded and tried to analyze past quarrels deep and fading in her memory and this introversion far from helping her, threw her deeper in depression


    43. Except for Hitler… There, Hitler sat and brooded over the past and wanted justice, revenge for all the mistreatment and injustice done to Germany since it had lost the Great War


    44. brooded the Old Tower


    45. angle, the palace brooded over the nearby town


    46. She sat in the back of my mind and brooded, and waited, and brooded some more


    47. We drove in silence for a while, and I let the music flow through me, relaxing and soothing, while he brooded, lost in thought


    48. He brooded with relish, in profound secret, over the image of a girl--virtuous, poor (she must be poor), very young, very pretty, of good birth and education, very timid, one who had suffered much, and was completely humbled before him, one who would all her life look on him as her saviour, worship him, admire him and only him


    49. Jarvis, "really nothing that I want to know"; but she brooded over it


    50. Day and night she brooded over them with tireless devotion and anxiety, leaving John to the tender mercies of the help, for an Irish lady now presided over the kitchen department








































    1. This happens when you are not brooding about past or planning about future or when you have no ambition to fulfill


    2. now an expectant air in the hallway, a brooding air, and an absence of sound


    3. It was only later, wrapped in permanent night, that I asked the big questions of a closed and brooding door


    4. If ever one of us awoke with that brooding depression that was never far from the surface smile, the other always seemed to rally round and, with care and light-hearted humour, would lift the mood


    5. When it came to the reading of their father’s will, however, Danny found, in a rather brooding sort of way, that the world of flesh and bone took on a sudden fascination


    6. however, Danny found, in a rather brooding sort of way, that the


    7. The door is unlocked and Davie enters the lab, still brooding over the novel use that the waste disposal system is being put to


    8. She was struck by a sudden sense of how far away this tiny world was from the so-called civilised society she was used to, far both literally in that it was some miles from the nearest town and also mystically with its silent brooding landscape


    9. The trees had an oppressive, brooding,


    10. Blackforest was a brooding expanse of towering

    11. Those few brief seconds of lunacy, of boisterous, burning Bedlam, subside and the world returns to its normal silent, brooding state


    12. The old farm house looks cold and uninviting, brooding over the loss of past generations of pig breeders


    13. Instead it was Lesahr, the brooding descendant of Elven kings who was left with her on these nights


    14. a forbidding aspect as it lay brooding beneath the rough


    15. The children scampered on without a word, but eyeing the brooding trees as they clutched each others arms and hands


    16. His face featured a prominent jaw, along with an aquiline nose, brooding lips, eyes that went straight to their mark like arrows, and a closely trimmed dark beard


    17. Brooding in expression, he took a deep breath, then recited:


    18. Why waste any of it brooding over things that have already done their worst?”


    19. Her eyes had a veiled and brooding look


    20. Adem’s sense of him through the kigare was that he was brooding in his depths of flame

    21. She stared back at him, exploring his face, running over the brooding eyes and dark eyebrows


    22. Adem wondered if his brooding was a sign of his friend’s symptoms returning or that he was just concerned over the problems they faced


    23. He stumbled onwards with a heavy heart, brooding just like his Battle Angel, the two of them descending into endless circles of flames


    24. Silence followed, his sense of Math Mathonwy was that he was brooding in a cloud of flames


    25. Fire had always been a strength amongst the Low Realm Angels though the brooding in flames seemed to result from their inevitable descent into madness


    26. A selfish indulgence into self-pity, and he cursed himself for brooding over his own career


    27. Overhead the starlit heavens glistened, brooding


    28. Archer sat by the rude hearth of his Big Rattle camp, brooding in a


    29. Les would always remember her like that, standing there like an idol in some deserted temple, brooding in the rain


    30. Since leaving Bocas del Toro, Sylvia had been brooding about her deteriorating friendship with Caroline and how to tell her without argument that the horse business was finished

    31. A natural deep-water harbour showed why the city was here, a small metropolis plopped right down into the midst of huge ruins, crumbling walls, and pagan temples brooding in the rarified air


    32. Only a brooding, deeply rumbling sound like stones carrying the echoes of thunder could be heard, and it could only be coming from the ascending mass of the Disciplinarium


    33. He did so politely, trying to appease the machine’s brooding mood, his voice trimmed and clipped to something an ambassador would use to convey assurance and calm:


    34. In order to self-replicate, just like good little von Neumann machines ought, they had been designed to breed and to provide nesting and brooding care to their offspring


    35. Their faces were severe, deep gazes and brooding expressions


    36. Even with the Dark brooding in the horizon


    37. I was always nervous when alone with him like this: he had a brooding silence that boded badly for me


    38. Ivanka's heavy face, brooding but handsome, stared straight ahead


    39. He opened the door to a side room and an older (perhaps sixty years old), dark, brooding man with cold, penetrating eyes entered the room


    40. anger with ease as his brooding eyes tracked the helicopters; his

    41. island rose up stark against the horizon, with brooding colours,


    42. Over at the far end of the swamp was a brooding rock with


    43. M: Give your heart and mind to brooding over the ‘I am’, what is


    44. I rose an eyebrow at her “You’re brooding most of the time my love


    45. He was to be to them a father, a harsh and brooding, but just and solicitous father


    46. Penn was with them, looking sullen, brooding over a


    47. brooding considering what a hell of a night I had been through


    48. Brooding over his cup of coffee, Harry muttered that


    49. A screaming jet of cerulean water blasted from the foundations of the great stone pillar, up the brooding furnace, through the eternally-burning stove, and out the top of the Circle of the Sun


    50. Writing letters had not stopped the headmaster brooding on the evils of the world, and he was furious that his evening should be disturbed by this personification of depravity














































    1. Leona packs away the sound desk, running cables back up to the wings of the stage, while Ted broods quietly at the far end of the bar


    2. * Always broods about the past and the old friends 155


    3. Clinging to the animals and carts that bore their broods, the women were dragged stumblingly


    4. This is extremely rapid development for a parrot--an adaptation to raise as many broods as possible in an environment where food and water are unpredictable


    5. An air of mystery broods over Stonehenge, located in the English county of Wiltshire


    6. Now, grieving as never before, she has no choice but to cast us from her, as she'd done with her first three wayward broods


    7. technocants? These immortals with their infinite bloodprints, how much energy will they and their broods consume during the limited and laborious lifetime of your tech-nonabled child – a child without the privileges inherited by the immortals and their eternally entitled kin


    8. He broods over these things for far too long – and by broods he means plans


    9. it the same as the setting hen broods over the eggs and you can make it a reality


    10. But a woman broods

    11. Nixon broods and sips from a glass of twenty-year-old Ballantine scotch


    12. Unhappy he, who, on the brink of misfortune, broods over ideas like these!


    13. "Our poor Ned broods about all the things he can't have


    14. He rests his head of sorts on a hand of sorts and broods


    15. (In the cone of the searchlight behind the coalscuttle, ollave, holyeyed, the bearded figure of Mananaun Maclir broods, chin on knees


    16. A polite married women called to nurses and small children and gathered their broods together to take their departure, and groups of girls started off, laughing and talking, toward the house to exchange gossip in the upstairs bedrooms and to take their naps


    17. Frequently, brown and withered country women with broods of towhaired silent children spent the night there, women widowed by the war, dispossessed of their farms, seeking relatives who were scattered and lost


    18. At least, Scarlett tried to excuse herself that way but honesty forced her to admit that Melanie loved children and would Wade and the neighbors’ broods


    19. For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars


    20. Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say—here, HERE lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these

    21. Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings


    22. This serenity broods over the city; and the shock of wars, earthquakes, tidal wave and stupendous fires has not shaken it


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    Synonyms for "brood"

    brood cover hatch incubate dwell grizzle stew pout sulk bulk large hover loom flock run class family kind line lineage issue litter progeny young muse dwell on grieve fret ponder ruminate over set sit sigh gloom languish repine

    "brood" definitions

    the young of an animal cared for at one time


    think moodily or anxiously about something


    hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing


    be in a huff and display one's displeasure


    be in a huff; be silent or sullen


    sit on (eggs)