brooded

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Brooded London's Financial Times: "The unions have, at the very least, crippled the goose which has laid many golden eggs."

From Time Magazine Archive

Brooded Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel: "Ollenhauer as a responsible spokesman for Germany is a dreadful thought."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the deep afternoon, when westering calms Brooded above the streets of Rome, and hushed Their noisier clamor, at her orisons, In San Domenico, Francesca knelt.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

Brooded by the sun, the earth hatched her offspring; the promise and the potency of all terrestrial life was in the earth herself; her womb was fertile from the first.

From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John

Brooded during the last four years on her imagined wrongs and figured out a neat revenge.

From Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)