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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Brood

Brooding like a dove for its mate.
—Anonymous

Brooded … like a hen over a chalk egg.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Broods like an owl.
—Ernest Dowson