In art, the religious spirit broods over the great work of the world.

On a grassy point to the right, and a hundred rods distant, two deer were quietly feeding, while in a little bay on the left, a brood of young ducks were sporting and skimming along the water in playful gyrations around their staid and watchful mother.

I brooded in wonder at what I had seen and how little I had explained.

You will recall that once, when taken to a ruined castle, you brooded on the dungeons until a plot popped into your head.

Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care!

" "What?" He stood brooding for a moment.

By day he had a mass of rough golden hair, but now it seemed to brood above his head like a black cloud that made his face deathly white by comparison.

In one of the hymns, for instance, in our hymn-book an excellent hymn in other respects, there is a line which speaks of the Holy Spirit as possessing "The brooding of the gentle dove.

The messenger had a young brood at Aleppo, and was sent down in an uncovered cage to Scanderoon, from whence, as soon as set at liberty, she returned with all possible expedition to her nest.

The brooding over themselves and their troubles is one of the distinctive features of the whole complex.

Her soul, brooding under a weight of misery, was ready to welcome any change, should it only mean a greater misery.

Her laugh sounded strangely light and frivolous and shallow in the silence of the ages which had brooded within these walls since the days of Tamerlane.

Why talk thus? Whate'er the monster brooding in your breast I care not: fear I have none, and cannot fear

This was one of those unhealthy, pent-up cloisters, where misery stagnates and broods among the "foul congregation of pestilential vapours" which haunt the backdoor life of the poorest parts of great towns.

All the way Kurt brooded about his father's strange action.

The Scripture speaks once of the Holy Spirit of God brooding like a bird over its nest.

The atmosphere, heavy and brooding from the long exclusion of the outer air, seemed to weigh upon him with the density of matter, and to afford the stuff out of which phantasmal bodies perpetually took shape and, as he half persuaded himself, substance.

One of the brood out of Bucclough?" "A cadet of that line," I managed to admit, wonderingly.

Here black rebellion shooting from below (As earth's gigantic brood by moments grow)

The dove is the emblem of something else, pure and holy, but not of gentleness; and therefore the Holy Spirit is not spoken of in Scripture as brooding as a gentle dove; but very differently, as it seems to me.

Dead stillness brooded around the Coliseum; the pale, silvery lustre streamed through its arches, and over the grassy walls, giving them a look of shadowy grandeur which day could not bestow.

Against a copy of verses signed "B.B.," as we remember them in the hardy Annuals that went to seed so many years ago, we should warn our incautious offspring as an experienced duck might her brood against a charge of B.B. shot.

She was little more than a child in years,not yet fourteenand the loneliness and gloom of such an hour in the great house might have set an older fancy brooding on vague terrors.

Here every coming hour broods into life Some new affrightful monster.

The Barn Swallow had guided her last brood through the hayloft window, without having it closed upon her as she had feared.