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Example sentences for "brown study"

  • You were in such a brown study that I had to call you by your name to rouse you.

  • Nan fell into a brown study, and then woke up with a little gasp.

  • Nan gave her a little hug; but she left the answer to Phillis, who went at once into a brown study, and only woke up after a long interval.

  • If he was in any sort of a study as he paced the rest of his way home, it was not a brown study; and if his steps were slow, it was not that they flagged any more.

  • In a sort of brown study he was slowly pacing up one of the emptying business streets, when his hand was seized by some one, and Winthrop's startled look up met the round jocund well-to-do face of the German professor.

  • Her mother was inaccessibly entrenched in a brown study; her father contemplating fate in the vinery.

  • It hardly seems possible that a man could be so completely enveloped in a brown study that he would err in the matter of a wife and five children, but such was the case with Martin Luther.

  • You come on a wheelbarrow suddenly when it is in a brown study, and you undertake to straddle it, so to speak, and all at once you find the wheelbarrow on top.

  • One day the proprietor came up stairs and discovered me in a brown study, whereupon he cursed me in a subdued Presbyterian way, abbreviated my salary from $26 per month to $18 and reduced me to the ranks.

  • Alec paced up and down the lower hall in the twilight for an hour, thinking so intently that sometimes he frowned, sometimes he smiled, and more than once he stood still in a brown study.

  • Mac, waked out of a brown study by the laughter, in which the elders joined.

  • Valentine, left in his chair of state, sat on in a brown study.

  • Strolling back to Timberdale Rectory from posting the letter at Salmon's, John Tanerton fell into a brown study.

  • At supper he put down his knife and fork perpetually to fall into a brown study; and I am sure he never knew a word of the reading afterwards.

  • The Squire, leaning on the gate, appeared to be looking after him: in reality he was deep in a brown study.

  • They had done their work for first lesson, and Tom was in a brown study, brooding like a young William Tell, upon the wrongs of fags in general, and his own in particular.

  • He fell into a brown study, during which his pipe went out.

  • Orde fell into a brown study, occasionally throwing a twig or a particle of earth at the offending lump in the turf.

  • With his hand covering his lips and his eyes upon the ground, he fell into a brown study.

  • Within ten minutes he had visited Palestine, paid his compliments to the ancient herbalists, and landed again in his own coach, to find in his late audience a somewhat distraite daughter and a friend in a brown study.

  • He was stirring his tea, in a brown study, nor did he note that Vashti's eyes were resting on him with an amused smile.

  • That is why the Commandant sat in a brown study.

  • The Commandant stood for a minute or so in a brown study, eyeing the box.

  • Guy fell into a brown study, not unnoticed by those anxious eyes, which lingered oftener upon his face than on that of any of her sons.

  • No service was held in them yet, but it would be held when the drowned bishop, who sat outside in a brown study, could only hit upon the name of the Lord that was to be served, and then all the Draugs would go to church.

  • He took to walking about all by himself in a brown study.

  • A brown study, you know, is sitting perfectly still and thinking very hard.

  • Then for a long, long time he sat in a brown study.

  • So Sammy Jay in his turn went into a brown study, and Peter watched him anxiously and a little hopefully.

  • Once or twice she spoke harshly to Louis; she fell at other times into a brown study; and when she thought I was not watching her, her face wore a look of deep anxiety.

  • After that he kept such a silence, falling as it seemed to me into a brown study, that he went away without so much as bidding me farewell, or being conscious, as far as I could tell, of my presence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brown study" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bronze medal; brown and; brown bear; brown bird; brown coat; brown eyes; brown fricassee; brown precipitate; brown steed; brown stock; brown sugar; browned flour; brownish color; brownish gray; brownish grey; brownish yellow; but the; cantus firmus; dead flat; good journey; great esteem; greater number; making laws; mentioned here; serious illness; thyn herte