in a brown study
Example Sentences
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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
Well, she was walkin’ ’cross-lots in a brown study an’ a red-striped morey waist, speakin’ this out loud as she went.
From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret
Why, how now, bully, in a brown study?
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
She passed some of her time in caring for her child, some in reading books sent from Innsbruck by Agenor; but for the most part she sat motionless in a brown study.
From Judith Trachtenberg A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil
"What are you in a brown study about, Olive?" she said.
From The Man with the Pan Pipes and other Stories by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)
