brooded

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Examples of brooded

  • She never brooded over her loss of power, or the loss of the changes or amusements which others enjoy.

  • He has been absent but his spirit, from wherever it may have been, has brooded over our debate.

  • A deep peace has brooded, not wholly undisturbed by some subterranean rumblings, over the course of our discussions.

  • I feel that the spirit of my pet centipede has brooded over all our proceedings to-day.

  • And then in one of the darkest hours that have ever brooded over us there sprang to leadership a statesman for whom history does not easily furnish a parallel.

  • They had brooded over it for years.

  • Nestlings are brooded for the first five days, after which the young are capable of maintaining a fairly constant body temperature.

  • The eggs usually hatch in about five weeks, and are brooded by both parents.

  • The hatchlings are brooded for approximately 12 to 14 days and then fledge at that time.

  • Here fertilisation takes place and the larvae are brooded for ten to fourteen days.

  • Day reportedly brooded almost continually over the end of his pitching career.

  • Fertilisation is internal and the eggs are brooded inside the mantle for a week before emerging as free swimming nauplius larvae.

  • Young chicks are brooded continuously, with the female brooding during the night and the duties being shared during the day.

  • Fish that investigate this get showered in glochidia which have been brooded within the mussel's mantle cavity over the winter period.

  • The eggs clump together and may adhere in a viscous mass to the adult's spines and be brooded there.

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