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For a long time Marine flyers have brooded over their treatment by the Navy, which has declined to give them the kind of a job they crave.

From Time Magazine Archive

To have brooded and pined, and made myself miserable and well-nigh broken my heart day by day for a man that was to prove so utterly unworthy as this!

From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.

Had there been in her make-up any inherent weakness of mentality, Hazel might perhaps have brooded herself into neurasthenia.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto

These two days I have brooded over it, and these two nights.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by Lespérance, John

Mr. Froude, a pure-minded man, is the last man to call back into the glare of a judicial inquest deeds of horror, over which eternal silence should have brooded, had such an issue been possible.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James