Tarzan sat in a brown study for a long time after he finished reading the letter.
I snapped out of my brown study and looked up.
Every few minutes, I'd fall into a brown study.
Sidney collapsed out of her brown study and stared up at the face.
He came out of his brown study with a jerk.
I fell into a brown study as I walked on, and a voice at my side made me start.
He dropped into that brown study of his again.
Because I actually like and appreciate life too much now to wish myself into some brown study in order to write a stupid song.
Caught in my own brown study, I'd missed a couple of sentences.
So he'd withdraw, just go off and sit in a brown study.