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Meanings of brood over in English

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Usage of brood over in English
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It was not in him, to sit and brood over lost happiness.
The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
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The heart would fain brood over its feeling, cherishing and protecting it.
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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A deep and solemn peace seemed to brood over the miniature lake.
The Silent Places
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They'd have time to brood over it, to get the agitators started.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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You have no longer all those painful depressing thoughts to brood over.
Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts
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Thus charitably did he brood over things that were not to happen.
Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Disco...
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He found he had bred a disposition to brood over his weakness.
In the Roaring Fifties
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She was silent, and Carlo had to brood over something as well.
Vittoria — Volume 7
9
You hoard up all your evil thoughts, and brood over them alone.
Jane Talbot
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They toss them into the waste-basket... and brood over them in silence.
Half a Rogue
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It is advisable, therefore, for one not to brood over such sorrow.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Then he went back to his room, to brood over his secret.
Frank Roscoe's Secret; Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods
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He preferred to brood over his coarseness, his caddish ingratitude, his irreligion.
The Longest Journey
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The tenderest memories brood over us, and come like a flood sometimes.
Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
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What right had I to sit down and brood over my miseries?
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 4
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But, during the ages to come, she will brood over their memory.
The American Union Speaker
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