"Broody" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exploded once, quite as abruptly as had the giant powder. After that he chewed tobacco and drove in broody silence. ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... world that he was past bothering about explaining things or being surprised at anything. But he seemed to get a new idea about me; he came back to the steps again, and watched my brush for a while, as if he was thinking, in a broody sort of way, of throwing up his practice and going in for house-painting. Then he ...
— Over the Sliprails • Henry Lawson |
