brown study

NOUN
  1. a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness
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How To Use brown study In A Sentence

  • As they seated themselves at table Brahms, who had been in a brown study, suddenly proffered the company an extemporaneous criticism of Ivan's music, which he tore into miscroscopic bits, and flung upon the winds of sarcasm; after which he perorated elaborately upon his own power and the perfect academic accuracy of his style. The Genius
  • While the silent or brown study kind of awayness is perhaps the main type, other kinds are also observable. Behavior in Public Places
  • But before he could turn to remonstrate she was volubly bidding him not to go off into a brown study over some plesiosaurus, and forget all about his charge, or make a mistake and introduce her to the dinotherium, instead of Professor Sara, a Princess
  • I didn't speak to him as he seemed to be in a brown study.
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