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Sentences ending with brood

There were neither signs nor sounds save Nature's own, the hoot of the wood-owl, the distant bark of a mountain wolf, the whir of a partridge as she left her brood. [9]
The island of Sark lifted a green bosom above her perpendicular cliffs, with the pride of an affluent mother among her brood. [11]
Above the arches of the roof he heard a loud, grunting laugh, and a voice, that sounded like the hoarse howl of a dog, cried several times: "Here we have the Wendelin brood! [10]
She sat down in a chair, the trance of the passionate moment still on her, and began to brood. [11]
He has a horribly shrill voice--but he looks like a man who will stand no trifling, and will know how to quell the venomous brood. [10]
She looked at him several times anxiously, and passed backwards and forwards behind him as a hen moves upon the flank of her brood. [11]

Sentences containing brood two or more times

Silence and solitude brood over Tahoe; and silence and solitude brood also over this lake of Genessaret. [5]

More example sentences with the word brood in them

You can lengthen your days if you do not brood on fatal things --fatal to you; if you do not worry yourself into the grave. [11]
Talent is a very common family-trait; genius belongs rather to individuals;--just as you find one giant or one dwarf in a family, but rarely a whole brood of either. [6]
Pull your courage together, and don't brood, and don't give up. [5]
They'd have time to brood over it, to get the agitators started. [9]
We have got to be ruled by strangers; and who would not rather pay small tribute to the wise and healthy Khalif at Medina than a heavy one to the sickly imperial brood of Melchites at Constantinople. [10]
Before they find their way to the main again, these harridans of nature bring forth a brood of currents which ceaselessly fret the boundaries of the isles. [11]
The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells. [2]
She would climb the rugged old hemlocks now and then for the sake of a wide outlook, or to peep into the large nest where a hawk, or it may be an eagle, was raising her little brood of air-pirates. [6]
It ill becomes the eagle's brood to coo like the dove, and you have sharp talons though you hide them never so well under your soft feathers. [10]
I think also that there are special influences which work in the brood lake ferments, and I have a suspicion that some of those curious old stories I cited may have more recent parallels. [6]
Instead of serried rows of bees sealing up every gap in the combs and keeping the brood warm, he sees the skillful complex structures of the combs, but no longer in their former state of purity. [2]
You bungling louts ought to protect me against the foul brood that peoples this city, and their venomous jests. [10]
And the brood of Rameses shall learn whether your husband's son will let himself be ill-used and scorned without revenging him self. [10]
And yet if my easily persuadable brother governed at Alexandria, I believe the shrewd priests might succeed in stamping him as a worshipper of that magnified schoolmaster, who punishes his untutored brood with fire and torment. [10]
There is at least one mind somewhere which will brood, and wear, and decay itself to the killing-point and produce that tragedy. [5]
Was it a jackal that had plunged into the dense growth to surprise a brood of water-fowl; was it a hyena trampling through the thicket? [10]
When Hadrian was in the humor to brood and be silent the whole day long, he never disturbed him by a word; but in these moods the Emperor found his favorite's society indispensable, for the mere consciousness of his presence soothed him. [10]
I tried all in my power to dislodge this burdensome brood of all ages and colors, but in vain; every night my sleep was disturbed by horrible choruses of four-footed animals, and feline war-cries and songs. [10]
What right had I to sit down and brood over my miseries? [11]
Jane had now, however, no leisure to brood over the coils that were closing round her. [13]
But he left her to brood over his ingratitude, and she suffered him to go heavy and unfriended to meet the chances of the day. [8]
As quickly as he could he turned round with an exclamation of "Accursed brood of vipers! [10]
Of visitors they had few, if any, and the young wife was left alone to brood upon her wrongs. [11]
He cared nothing for public opinion, and, as an independent bachelor, desired nothing except "to be let alone," for he professed the utmost contempt for the corrupt brood yclept "mankind. [10]
What a strong feeling of inward satisfaction must impel a bird, so full of activity, to brood day after day over her eggs. [1]
In these wet days had he begun to brood a little? [9]
She des sit dar an' brood, an' brood--an' she use' ter de bes' company, to de quality. [9]
The refractory young brood down there were being kept well in hand, and it was entirely owing to his effectual measures that they had contented themselves with that one whistle. [10]
The aristocratic doves brood badly, and we put their eggs under birds of more ordinary breed. [10]
What would he brood about, should you say? [5]
Other rewards were bestowed upon it, for no other bird could hatch a brood of young ones in winter, and it also had the power of lessening the fever of those, who cherished it. [10]
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. [7]
The wife looked at the yellow brood drawing close to their mother, and her eyes grew wistful. [11]
Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard. [2]
Will any one accuse me now of injustice if I punish the accursed brood that has grown up in this den of iniquity with all the rigor that it deserves? [10]
I confess to a tender feeling for my little brood of thoughts. [6]
Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it. [2]
In the year 184-, a melancholy proof was afforded to the inhabitants of Rockland, that the brood which infested The Mountain was not extirpated. [6]

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