brooding vs sepulchral

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

sepulchral

adj
  • Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn. 

  • Relating to a grave or to death; funereal. 

  • Having a hollow and deep sound. 

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