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This was a misfortune of which, with all her brood,
The Claverings 2005
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"You both came," she said, and she spoke in the tone of a mother of chickens who has found two young and precocious ducklings in her brood,
The Island of Faith 1937
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He talked of the sins of his misspent life, and then he seemed to brood,
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There now dwells the bat with her light-shunning brood,
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lewis Spence 1914
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Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood,
Present Crisis 1912
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On grievous thoughts and cares of home must brood,
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood,
The Present Crisis 1909
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When the nations lie in blood, and their kings a broken brood,
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904
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There shall be countless linked handsnamely, the Northeasterners, and the Northwesterners, and the Southwesterners, and those of the interior, and all their brood,
299 1900
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Of spirits bravely-pitched, earths manlier brood,
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