Meaning of brown studies | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“She was all right. The abuse she was suffering wouldn't hurt⟳ her. The bright sun would forget⟳ all about it. The smoggy sky would turn⟳ brown studies to gold. (What crap.)”

“Verville, author of Moyen de Parvenir, and others equally well known, among whom we will specially mention⟳ the Sieur Descartes, because he was a melancholy genius, and devoted himself more to brown studies than to drinks and dainties, a man of whom all the cooks and confectioners of Tours have⟳ a wise horror, shom they despise, and will not hear⟳ spoken of, and say⟳, "Where does he live⟳? if his name⟳ is mentioned.”

“She was pensive, she drooped; more than once she sighed unromantically through her nose; she went off into brown studies;”

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