brooding

• "A Dirge for Summer" has a marked originality, and is of that deep brooding which is particularly congenial to Gilchrist's muse. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• All was quiet--brooding, ominous quiet Yet he was sure that eyes watched them from somewhere behind that blank wall He glanced at Thuvia. —  Thuvia, Maid of Mars
• And so it is that he who has followed the activities of a pair of birds through all the joys and anxieties of nest building, brooding, and of caring for the young, may well lay claim to a close acquaintanceship with them In watching a nest one will learn, for example, that with most of our small birds both parents engage in {43} the pleasant duty of feeding the young, at times shielding the little ones from the hot rays of the sun with their half-extended wings, and now and then driving away intruders. —  The Bird Study Book
• Work was for him nine-tenths reflection and meditation and poetic brooding, and he put down his sensations on canvas with great difficulty in the manner of a labourer. —  Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• The town is all right--it is not that He paused, brooding, then went on: "Last night I did not sleep--much--thinking about it. —  Terry A Tale of the Hill People

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