in a brown study
Example Sentences
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Most people spend between 30 and 47 percent of their waking hours spacing out, drifting off, lost in thought, woolgathering, in a brown study or building castles in the air.
From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2014
“Don’t let us talk of dying,” said Hume, who had been in a brown study.
From The Golden Rock by Glanville, Ernest
I was in a brown study, and thinking of my favourite Richard, when poor Olive's sobs roused me.'
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
But no footman was there to see his lordship sunk in a brown study.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
But she was rather in a brown study at her lessons that morning.
From Little Miss Peggy Only a Nursery Story by Molesworth, Mrs.
