| Robert Browning turns away from us in a glowing brown study, like a Rembrandt etching. |
| After that awakening, I walked around in a brown study, trying to think of an appropriate response from us women. |
| He pushed his index fingers against his lower lip and remained in a brown study for a full two minutes. |
| And, at one time, I got so much into the habit of rapping that I used to catch myself doing it involuntarily, as a man in a brown study may rap with his fingers. |
| The second movement, grave and poetic, is Brahms in a brown study. |
| Convention has him as an artist perpetually alone in a brown study, perhaps because he comes before us this way in the self-portraits, but even at his death Rembrandt's much-forgotten daughter Cornelia was with him. |
