. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding so — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding so — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding so — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding so — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding so — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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