brown study
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“The Potato Eaters,” the large, mostly brown study of peasants at a humble meal that scholars consider Vincent’s first masterpiece, was hung above the fireplace.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2021
Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2014
As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened to the kingdom of machismo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The helm station is quite handsome, a brown study in leather and hardwood.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was doubtless wrapped up in a brown study, and, recalling some amusing episode, indulged in laughter without realizing his surroundings.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon
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