Fitz-Edward, fond of society, and courted by the most brilliant circles, shut himself up in a country house, distant from all his connections.
Lord Montreville, on reading Mrs. Stafford's letter, shut himself up in his own apartment to consider what was to be done.
Meanwhile he shut himself in at home, and with the exaggeration of a genuine artist, heightened to impossible limits his misfortune and ridiculous position.
Meanwhile he shut himself up in himself, and in silence which had more the appearance of life-sorrow than it was in reality.
Shut himself in with Pani Osnovski, and give her a sermon, eye to eye?
He shut himself up in one of the houses in the New Square, and never quitted it till the 14th, to continue his retreat.
He shut himself up in his study, and as Brace was being placed in the carriage, McCray came forward, and handed a note to Captain Norton, who started as he saw the cipher on the great seal.
Failing in this, he shut himself up in another Castle in Normandy, which the King besieged, and where Robert one day unhorsed and nearly killed him without knowing who he was.
Monroe fled in panic to Lisburn, and thence to Carrickfergus, where he shut himself up, till he could obtain reinforcements.
After suffering a severe check in Leix, he shut himself up in Kilkenny, where he heard of the disastrous fate of Bagnal's expedition.
Overpowered by the events of the day, he shut himself up in his chamber.
Cornudet indignant at the friendly understanding established between conquerors and conquered, withdrew, preferring to shut himself up in the inn.
He asked to be taken home, and, when he reached the house, he shut himself up in his room, and wept until nightfall.
He was insensible to even this affront, and rather than take down from the rack his father's gun, which was still loaded, he shut himself up, not daring to brave the looks of the young men of the district.
It's lucky that Donna Serafina should have gone out, and that his Eminence should have shut himself up with Don Vigilio.
He sent Don Vigilio to tell me that he intended to shut himself up in his room and dictate some letters.
When Hisham heard this, he wept till his beard was drenched and putting off his rich apparel, shut himself up in his palace.
Finding none there, he shut himself up [in a cabinet] and taking out a piece of hashish, swallowed it.
He shut himself up in Nineveh, and for two whole years heroically repulsed all assaults; in the third year, the Tigris, swollen by the rains, overflowed its banks and broke down the city walls for a distance of twenty stadia.
Philosopher," shut himself up in his capital and confined his measures of defence to placing a chain across the entrance of the harbour.
So he shut himself up in Castel Nuovo and gave permission to Gaeta and to Naples to treat with the conqueror.
He shut himself up in his room, and listened half-dead to a Mass from his bed.
To shut himself up every evening in the dirty public room, to push about on marble tables the small sheep bones with black dots, seemed to him a fine proof of his freedom, which raised him in his own esteem.
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