Word: brooding
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...white trash are authentic but attractive. Old Man Roper, unregenerate patriarch, had fathered a rascally and shiftless brood. Thomas lived off in the swamp by himself, distilling shinny and drinking what he did not have to sell. Bart had not been improved by going to the War. He got a half-wit girl in trouble, killed her father and pinned the murder on her. Only decent ones in the family were Rachel, who took good care of Old Man Roper and her pining sisters, and Cully, her half-nephew, who liked engines, planned to be a mechanic...
...full sisters. Example: Omaha and Flares. Two horses with the same mother but different fathers are half-brothers or half-sisters. Example: Petee Wrack and Gallant Fox. Two horses with different mothers but the same father are "by the same sire." Example: Twenty Grand and Bold Venture. Because a brood mare is bred once a year, and a stallion many times, the thoroughbred strain is considered to be, by most thoughtful breeders, a matriarchy. Another popular misconception regarding the thoroughbred horse is that all thoroughbred horses are race horses. Today thoroughbred blood is being used everywhere by private and commercial...
...Union [the U. S.], which merits our gratitude in so many ways for its reiterated historic acts of benefit and help throughout our existence as a rebellious [Spanish] colony and as a republic full of worries and troubles." The new President promised amnesty to Cuba's vast, stormy brood of political prisoners and exiles but warned: "It is necessary that the morbid state of cruel insanity of killing each other shall not re-turn." No contemporary Cuban has taken more lives than Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista, whose oversized (14,000) Army gives him the sinister status...
...took news of his discovery to plump, grey-haired Lady Lindsay, wife of moose-tall Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Lady Lindsay suggested telephoning to the Department of Agriculture. One of the Department's entomologists told the worried gardener that the insects were part of a huge and famed brood-Brood X-of periodical cicadas known scientifically as Tibicina septendecim and popularly as "17-year-locusts." The entomologist said that the insects would do little or no harm to flowers and shrubs, would make a fearful racket later on when they began to mate. Meanwhile there was nothing...
...earnings very fair (?6,000 advance royalties on one book). Now & again he made a quick trip back into aristocratic society or home to Sparkenbroke Hall, to tell his still-hopeful wife politely that he no longer loved her, to sniff the fragrance of his native woodland and brood awhile in the interior of his family vault...