In people's eyes the cabbage question no longer brooded.
He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears.
It was not enough that he brooded while she went to bathe and exercise.
The boy grew up in this dismal place and brooded on his mother's wrongs.
The fear and restraint which brooded amongst the denizens of the air began to affect all life.
He drove a stake to mark the spot where the killdeer hen brooded in the corn field, so that he would not drive Nancy over the nest.
Life in an isolated village, or a lonely country-house, presents many little occurrences which sink into the mind of childhood, there to be brooded over.
I told her whole crowds, as long as she kept the door shut, and the idea didn't seem to have struck her before; at least, she brooded over it for the rest of dinner.