That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence;
Players' theaters like this have existed elsewhere in the world (e. g. the commedia dell' arte)but they haven't matched the scale and variety of the popular theatre in China.-
The dell was to be left a solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser.
It was a little dell where they had seated themselves, with a leaf-strewn bank rising gently on either side, and a brook flowing through the midst, over a bed of fallen and drowned leaves.
I left him yonder in the forest, withdrawn into a secret dell, by a mossy tree-trunk, and near a melancholy brook!
This hard, melancholy dell, abandoned by the summer light, made her feel her loneliness.