Stews (over)

Usage examples of broods.

Voor godminds would at last be allowed to survive, and the broods would unite and begin to use their psynergies collectively.

They can offer to make peace on behalf of the colony by choosing their own broods and working toward building a better understanding between us and the Xtanians, or they can serve time--and we will draw lots for volunteers among the other colonists.

She had a pazaan of three broods, more than a dozen men and yet no lovers.

Baen was equally strict with the other broods, denying them nightly access to her, giving her one night to rest undisturbed every other night.

They had retreated for three generations, about thirty thousand human years, raising their broods on cold nestworlds around red dwarfs, conserving, holding back for the inevitable conflicts.

From the rear of one great temple stretched a low black passage which Carter followed far into the rock with a torch till he came to a lightless domed hall of vast proportions, whose vaultings were covered with demoniac carvings and in whose centre yawned a foul and bottomless well like that in the hideous monastery of Leng where broods alone the High-Priest Not To Be Described.

Watchers have spoken of this thing, and the Other Gods have grunted as they rolled and tumbled mindlessly to the sound of thin flutes in the black ultimate void where broods the daemon-sultan whose name no lips dare speak aloud.

Then, as I playfully shook him and turned him around, I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.

He broods on these things and wonders if he is really accomplishing anything, or just being taken for a sucker.

He broods on it abstractly sometimes, when high: this No-One-Must-Know thing.