| We sat there for a few minutes in silence, Holmes obviously in a brown study and I not willing to disturb his brilliant mind while at work. |
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| After that awakening, I walked around in a brown study, trying to think of an appropriate response from us women. |
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| At that time, Holmes had kept his distance, thinking in a brown study but never leaping to his feet with the quarry in his sights. |
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| Andrew and Emily began to get worried about me for I simply moped around or was often in a brown study. |
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| The second movement, grave and poetic, is Brahms in a brown study. |
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| Robert Browning turns away from us in a glowing brown study, like a Rembrandt etching. |
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| And, at one time, I got so much into the habit of rapping that I used to catch myself doing it involuntarily, as a man in a brown study may rap with his fingers. |
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| The poor fellow was in a brown study for the next four hours. |
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| He pushed his index fingers against his lower lip and remained in a brown study for a full two minutes. |
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| Say, what puts you in such a brown study this morning? |
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| Convention has him as an artist perpetually alone in a brown study, perhaps because he comes before us this way in the self-portraits, but even at his death Rembrandt's much-forgotten daughter Cornelia was with him. |
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| So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study. |
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