brown study
Example Sentences
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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 Department of Agriculture came out of a brown study and announced its June estimates for 1925 grain crops.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Langerdale paused for several moments and seemed wrapped in a brown study, from which my impatience aroused him.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
