alert vs brooding

alert

noun
  • An alarm. 

  • A state of readiness for potential combat. 

  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory. 

adj
  • Attentive; awake; on guard. 

verb
  • To give warning to. 

brooding

adj
  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

How often have the words alert and brooding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )