But can the noble mind forever brood,
The willing victim of a weary mood,
On heartless cares that squander life away,
And cloud young Genius brightening into day? [ Campbell ]

No covenant is to be made with the serpent's brood. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other; for images are the brood of desire. [ George Eliot ]

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to brood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui. [ Hazlitt ]

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. [ Alexander Smith ]

If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace, - they sometimes suck out our life-blood like vampires. [ Mrs. Jameson ]