His seclusion was passed in studying music, the physical sciences, drawing, and botany; and his acquaintance was wisely confined to a few musicians like himself.
Much sought after in the brilliant society of Florence, Rome, and Paris, our composer spends most of his time in the elegant seclusion of home.
General Dimitri Drentell and his intimate advisers had withdrawn from the festivities and had sought the seclusion of the cabinet.
Shunned and decried by their gentile neighbors, the Jews meekly withdrew into the seclusion of their dwellings, and allowed the wicked world to wag.
This is a curious hoard, and I am wondering if it is intended for the unknown person who is living in seclusion above.
I desire to live in seclusion as I have done for years, and beg of thee to speak of me to none; but come again thyself whenever thou canst.
Hence the Egyptian women have never been shut up, kept in seclusion and ignorance, and esteemed only as slaves or as chattels, as is universally the case among nations that have entirely fallen away from the divine truth.
But even with the advantages of this seclusion Agatha's confidences to her father were not full.
At dinner-time a plate of food and a glass of milk mysteriously made their appearance at the edge of the bed, so that she was able to stay in seclusion and wait for the storm to pass.
This love of seclusion took a singular turn in the reserve, and in the short and sententious mode of expression, practised by the Laconians.
This independence and seclusion would however sometimes be turned into hostility; and hence the military turn of the Dorians, which may also be traced in the development of the worship of Apollo.
My seclusion is no longer solitude; yet I do not value it the less.
The phrase shows the security andseclusion of these caves and thickets, the haunt once of lions and bears, and still of leopards and hyaenas.
Perhaps Solomon, hitherto concealed in the seclusion of the harem, was, up to this time, ignorant of himself as well as unknown to the people.
The quiet seclusion in which she had lived in the convent had kept her from approaching that maturity which as an earl's daughter, brought up in the stir and bustle of a castle, she would doubtless have attained.
In the delightful seclusion from noisy vulgarity, in the sweet interchange of kind sentiments, and in the mutual competition of classic pursuits, I possessed a unity and tranquillity of purpose far beyond the merits of my later years.
It is so pathetically different from the scenes she loved in life--the heather-clad slopes of her Highland home, the seclusion of the wooded braes where she loitered with her poet-lover.
She and the others who shared that rich, tended seclusion were apart from the usages and responsibilities of the World that was counterfeited there.
You will find quiet, an even temperature and perfect seclusionamong the pines at restful Lakewood.
So Beckley took that cheerful view of life which enabled the fox to disdain the blandishments of the vintage, and prided itself on its happy seclusion and untutored honesty.
Whither my wife went, I knew not;--but in a short time I heard that she was living in the strictestseclusion and under a feigned name.
I was strengthened in this resolve by the fact that the Marchioness herself was disposed to shroud the past in secrecy as much as possible: else wherefore the feigned name which she had adopted, and the seclusion in which she dwelt?
And then I wept as I thought that the dear girl was lost to me for ever--buried in some seclusion by one who cruelly kept us separated!
The seclusion of a charming villa will be delightful; and I think I can promise,” he added with a smile, “that the said villa will have more of my company than my town mansion.
This gentleman had completely recovered his mental equilibrium, and was living in a strict but happy seclusion with his Editha and their son.
Bede spent the most of his life in the seclusion of the monastery of Jarrow, near the mouth of the Tyne; the wild coast referred to in the Sonnet being the coast of Northumberland.
Nature and seclusion are welcome when, at our option, we can bid them good-by.
It is delightful to picture the commotion in the fernlike seclusion which enveloped the women of the Hawthorne household when this note was opened and read.
Some would rise visibly, for those who knew how to read them; others would be raised only in the seclusion of after-thought.
What she heard in its near seclusionseemed less real than the nightmare, and yet far more terrible.
It was the breaking up of her little family, her two sons going back to Italy to seek a more favorable field for their peaceful talents, and the mother remaining in seclusion for eleven years.
There was no hypocrisy in Heloise; she never was resigned to her seclusion in the convent, and never pretended to be.
Ascending into the seclusion of the Talar, he had no sooner entered its cedar-house than a strange lethargy and drowsiness enwrapped his senses.
This was a law which did not denounce the world as illusion or enjoin a cloistral seclusion upon the mind, but rather proposed each and every appearance as a touchstone on which the quality of personality should be unceasingly tried.
Moreover the seclusion of women rendered unnecessary that complicated code of manners which the freer intercourse of the sexes has built up in later times as a barrier against brutality or the unseemly selfishness of passion.
