Washington shook his head and dropped into a brooding silence.

Now and then he lapsed into a brooding silence, watching her.

His earlier black mood, the brooding silences, seemed to be at an end.

"I think she would have liked you," he said, before trailing off into brooding silence.

Quentin had nothing to say, but kept to himself in a kind of brooding silence.

He stared at me in brooding silence for a moment.

There was a brooding silence in the long, packed room.

He sat down abruptly and plunged once more back into a brooding silence.

They sat in brooding silence for a moment, then eyed each other.

They'll pick him up,' my father said again, after a long and brooding silence.