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Germany has been brooding about her mines for years.

From Time Magazine Archive

A scientist who thought up this murky question, and has been brooding over it, is Biologist Raymond B. Cowles of the University of California at Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I've noticed that he has been brooding and preoccupied of late, not at all like himself," said Douglas.

From Michael O'Halloran by Stratton-Porter, Gene

I'm afraid he has been brooding on the future a good deal.

From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

All day long she has been brooding miserably over her lover's danger, and dwelling with foolish persistency upon future dangers born of her terrified imagination.

From Rossmoyne by Unknown