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
On my way up to dinner, I literally ran against King, he was in a brown study, and I in a hurry.
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny
Dicky handed over the baby, whose wizen face was now relaxed in sleep, and slowly disencumbered himself of the ungainly jacket, staring at the wall in a brown study.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
Sometimes when he saw Dennis holding his forehead in a brown study, he would rub his long gaunt arms over his own brow with a wistful look that brought a smile to the lad's face.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
But he strolled down the dark street in a brown study, when suddenly there rushed at him in the darkness something which nearly upset him outright, and lo!
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
