They are fat, gray men with fishy eyes and large waistcoats, and they sit smoking cigars and brooding on what they are going to do to the market next day.
He had been broodingon this all night, and he wanted to go on brooding now.
There is a didactic tint to the piece, which is informed with the author’s characteristic irony, cynicism, broodingreflection and resigned acceptation.
The strange milieu breeds in both an intellectual languor that vents itself in long discussions, in brooding contemplation, mirages of the spirit.
We could see, through breaks in the igapo, extensive lagoons beyond, with the high jungle brooding over empty silver areas.
Thenceforward, and until I reached the ship again, I was dominated by the lofty, silent, confused, and brooding growth.
Shame that had been brooding over him in the darkness, fled away.
He relapsed into the gloomy brooding in which I find him so often plunged, and from which he emerges only to cast wandering looks about.
The latter, although plunged in brooding sadness, still preserved his affection for me.
I had some misgiving that you sat here brooding all alone.
Obscurely yet deeply disturbed by the blind stirring of emotions I could not clearly analyze, I sat brooding there.
If I had let him play and rooked him, he wouldn't have had the opportunity of brooding over difficulties and putting an end to them.
The very next afternoon Colonel Stuart was brooding silently over nothing at all in his private office-room, passing the time, as it were, out of mischief, till he went to dine with John Raby.
The long, silent days spent in brooding over her father's altered demeanour were too great a strain on her nerves, and she began to exaggerate the position.
The clumps of tall tiger-grass shot arrowlike against the velvet sky, and every now and again a faint rustle at their roots told of something watching the intruder; a brooding partridge may be, perhaps a snake with unwinking eyes.
He's fallen into a brooding melancholy, and I can't altogether trust him.
The gayest crowds cannot quite disturb the brooding peace which is like the promise of sleep and rest at sunset.
The brooding of McTee would excite no suspicions in the mind of Harrigan, but the quiet of the Irishman would be sure to excite the suspicions of the other.
They floated over all the valley; they separated and swung motionless above it as though they were mysterious multiple souls of firebrooding over the dying shell that had held them.
As I gazed upon them I wondered to what secret place within theirbrooding immensities the little metal mysteries had fled.
Norhala waited, silent, brooding until we passed her; then glided behind us.
So thick they fell that now the brooding luminaries were dim aureoles within them.
When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity?
Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
And she had misgivings and fears which she dared not acknowledge to herself, though she was always secretly brooding over them.
His mother sat by his side stroking his hair and gazing at him in fond, brooding love.
He became melancholy, then moody, and finally fell into the habit of sitting for hours among the crowds which swarmed the gambling rooms, brooding over his secret.
It was the solitude brooding in his imagination, making it start in fear at every sound.
While I lay there brooding over my mutilated spirit, left to lick my wounds like a wounded animal, I realized that I had been in an encounter with the evil conscience of Society, the victim of their hatred of those who suffer.
Fear held you; rage hardened your heart; dread of death as your punishment; angry brooding on what you believed was a terrible injustice done you--all these drove you to panic.
Sitting near one another they remained silent, restless-eyed, brooding above the battle-scarred world.
Soliman, sore, sullen, and unapproachable, dwelt in his palace brooding over the misfortunes which had been his lot since the death of Ibrahim.
Around him is the calm of the dreamless bivouac: the brooding wings of eternal rest have spread their hush above him.
He thought of going out to his club and a concert, but did nothing, after all, but sit brooding over the fire till midnight, alternately hugging and hating his solitude.
Robert was no sooner alone than he put down his pipe and sat brooding over the fire.
The dreaming city seemed to be still brooding in the autumn calm over the long succession of her sons.
All the time he was away she had sat brooding by herself in the drawing-room, divining with a bitter clairvoyance all that scene in which he was taking part, her being shaken with a tempest of misery and repulsion.
He spent a brooding and miserable hour in the vicar's study afterward, making up his mind as to what he should do.
She had not heard him speak in public since that last sermon of his in Murewell Church, every detail of which by long brooding had been burnt into her mind.
Long after Elsmere, who had stayed talking awhile on other things, had gone, Langham sat on brooding over the empty grate.
That we should be prisoners in a place where death had wrought so swiftly such tremendous havoc was quite enough to fill our souls with a brooding melancholy.
Then, lips compressed, boyish gaze fixed on the passing landscape, he sat brooding until at last the conductor opened the door and shouted the name of his station.
His softly warbled salute to the sunrise differs from his lovely even-song just as widely as the rapturous melody of his courting days differs from the more subdued, tranquil love song to his brooding mate.
The devoted male brings dainties to his broodingmate and helps her feed {86} their family.
A little girl I know actually stroked the pretty head of a mother bird as she sat brooding in her exquisite nest, and a week later {72} carried one of the young birds all around the garden on a rake handle.
Bradford Torrey used to visit a vireo that would drink water from a teaspoon which he held out to her while she sat brooding on her nest.
On the other side of the hedge, as she flew over, the grass was clean and full of flowers, and half-way up the field stood a brooding elm that cast a patch of shadow.
All day his castle hung over him like a cloud, not nebulous and evanescent only, but brooding darkly, boding storms, such as the orange blossoms dread.
But it was in the eastern sky that the greater splendour was; for the low rays streaming across lit up some stormy clouds that were brooding behind the mountain and turned their gloomy forms to an astounding purple.
In their cold savagery the inhuman mountains decked themselves out like gods with colours they took from the sunset; then darkened, all those peaks, in brooding conclave and disappeared in the night.
They lingered brooding for a time on the joys that might be hers--the joys of the mother of a chief over territory as well as hearts.
A brooding melancholy settled upon her reveries; the prospect of a life spent in the narrow circle to which she had endeavored to re-accustom herself, became unendurable.
Do you wonder that for half the night I sat up brooding and alive to the faintest sounds!
The fire in the grate burned dimly, shedding its lingering glow on the face of the master of the house as with bowed head and folded hands he sat alone and brooding before its dying embers.
A weird twilight scene of clustered shadows brooding above articles of musty grandeur.
