Secluded

Examples

• A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The van der Luydens were morbidly sensitive to any criticism of their secluded existence. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He secluded himself as much as the duties of his station permitted. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How quiet and secluded we feel here! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mrs. Bagnet hurried us into a more secluded place and was at first too breathless to proceed, occasioning Mr. Bagnet to say, Old girl! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That secluded sister is my first remembrance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We talked of change and active pursuits, but still remained at Windsor, incapable of violating the charm that attached us to our secluded life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The place seemed secluded, and was to me quite strange: I did not know it at all. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The officer turned suddenly from the path, and after climbing a paling, and scaling a hedge, entered a secluded field. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He was determined to see all that could be seen, and, quitting his perch on the telegraph booth, sought the more secluded headquarters of the pool forces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The journey was hazardous on account of Indians, and there were white men in Texas whom I would not have cared to meet in a secluded place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was a lovely, intimate secluded atmosphere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But such miseries could never intrude upon the domestic circle left to me, while, secluded in our beloved forest, we passed our lives in tranquillity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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