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  • He skirted the edge of the Glade, then, breaking into a run, he headed for his place of seclusion behind the Deadhead forest.†   (source)
  • "Did you have any idea what Halliday was working on all those years he was in seclusion?" another reporter asked.†   (source)
  • It was a secluded spot in the shade of a coral tree, next to a wall that was covered with bou-gainvillea.†   (source)
  • Langdon had the uneasy feeling that gunshots in this secluded, thick-walled chamber would go unheard, especially in this rain.†   (source)
  • She returned to Monroe County but secluded herself and was rarely seen in public.†   (source)
  • Harry, Ron and Hermione chose a secluded corner under a heavily dripping balcony, turning up the collars of their robes against the chilly September air and talking about what Snape was likely to set them in the first lesson of the year.†   (source)
  • Its secluded orchards and fruit gardens were separated by honeyed pea-shingle paths that Will's chair could negotiate quite happily.†   (source)
  • One night they drove out to a secluded spot along the river and parked their car.†   (source)
  • Dinosaurs build their nests in secluded places.†   (source)
  • I had the strong sense that we had stumbled into a kind of daring privacy, and that the secluded nature of the spot where we were standing allowed it but did not create it.†   (source)
  • And now when we were served chicken livers for dinner I couldn't help conceiving a mental picture of President Roosevelt and my father and Finny's father and numbers of other large old men sitting down to porterhouse steak in some elaborate but secluded men's secret society room.†   (source)
  • We had gone to the beach, to a secluded spot south of the city near Devil's Slide.†   (source)
  • The chamber is secluded, but the hum of cameras is never far away.†   (source)
  • Ben caught up with her and they cut through the hedges and across a secluded stretch of woods and entered the party zone.†   (source)
  • George drove the man to the place where the car speakers were supposed to be, but when they got to the location, a secluded spot near some woods, the man suddenly pulled out a gun.†   (source)
  • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) stepped in, and a house was found in a secluded part of the town in which I wanted to stay.†   (source)
  • Unruly patients were tied to their beds or secluded in locked rooms.†   (source)
  • They've got him in seclusion until he's dried out, as he's not deemed fit for public display.†   (source)
  • During the bitter month of January, he had brooded in the dark seclusion of his cell.†   (source)
  • The settlement was secluded and surrounded by harsh, beautiful land.†   (source)
  • I don't think I'd trusted anyone since Dad blew his brains out twenty years ago and Mom retreated into the pure selfishness of her seclusion.†   (source)
  • This seclusion of women is known as purdah, and it is designed to keep women concealed, maintaining the household, and it gives them a high sense of honor.†   (source)
  • There was a certain peace to it, being so secluded, my day broken up into tiny manageable pieces.†   (source)
  • With their customary compassion and vision, they'd allowed Ty to stay on campus, in an advisory role, with a secluded office and no specific duties.†   (source)
  • Their grandmother was a Tarahumara Indian who once walked down from the mountainous area in the state of Chihuahua where her people lived in seclusion for centuries.†   (source)
  • He went into complete seclusion.†   (source)
  • This is so gorgeous and in such a secluded spot.†   (source)
  • It was perfect, secluded, and practically on my doorstep.†   (source)
  • I entered the headquarters a few minutes behind him, took a seat at a secluded table toward the back of the room.†   (source)
  • In the last year the painting classes had alleviated her seclusion somewhat, for the teacher preferred group classes and would bring the other pupils to the sewing room.†   (source)
  • Fenring was one of the might-have-beens, an almost Kwisatz Haderach, crippled by a flaw in the genetic pattern — a eunuch, his talent concentrated into furtiveness and inner seclusion.†   (source)
  • We were right at the back of the shop, on a raised platform where it was darker and more secluded, like the old guy didn't want to think about the stuff in our area and had mentally curtained it off.†   (source)
  • She sipped her tea, then changed the subject: the families up and down South Beach, she said, were thought of by folks in Amity Harbor as self-styled aristocrats and malcontents, seclusion seekers and eccentrics—Ishmael's family included.†   (source)
  • "Live in seclusion!" was the advice of Epicurus.†   (source)
  • I had read one of Mrs. Guinea's books in the town library- the college library didn't stock them for some reason-and it was crammed from beginning to end with long, suspenseful questions: "Would Evelyn discern that Gladys knew Roger in her past? wondered Hector feverishly" and "How could Donald marry her when he learned of the child Elsie, hidden away with Mrs. Rollmop on the secluded country farm?†   (source)
  • At last, he stopped at a secluded spot and began to dig a little grave.†   (source)
  • There were no sewers up there, the only bathrooms secluded places among the boulders above the last dwellings.†   (source)
  • Summer before last, on a sweltering August Sunday, when she was secluded here, a difficult incident had taken place.†   (source)
  • While secluded from her folk, we sent to her our Spirit (Gabriel) and he appeared to her as a perfect human.†   (source)
  • He leads me to a large warehouse on a secluded back road.†   (source)
  • Could I persuade you to have one drink with me in some secluded, air-conditioned bar?†   (source)
  • The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society.†   (source)
  • Secluded five miles up a rutted dirt track, the played-out mine was a notorious party spot.†   (source)
  • Yeah, won't that make a fine honeymoon shack for the lovers? Mighty secluded.†   (source)
  • The field at the community center was in a secluded bog behind the town library, away from the social flow.†   (source)
  • If his father secluded himself in his darkroom every evening and his mother worked long past dinner most days and, on their vacations, shed her clothes and slipped into the cottages of strange men, whose fault could it be?†   (source)
  • Plus, it was secluded and easy to get to.†   (source)
  • Howard retreated to Ridgewood and remained secluded there for months, prostrate with grief.†   (source)
  • I noted there was a big copier in a pretty secluded corner of the office.†   (source)
  • Intelligence pinpointed James's current location, a compound in a secluded village in the mountainous Chapa Dara district of Kunar Province.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if every natural force in the universe was driving Chris and me to find a secluded spot.†   (source)
  • It was a quiet, secluded place.†   (source)
  • Her letters described her secluded, melancholy life, and she referred to her husband with blind sympathy, as a fine, discreet, considerate man.†   (source)
  • Unlike the chaplain, Corporal Whitcomb detested the seclusion of the clearing in the woods.†   (source)
  • The room was paneled and dark, the most secluded, airless, windowless room of the third-oldest building in Gatlin.†   (source)
  • Her favorite moments then had been when she'd been able to slip away unobserved and spend a few minutes on a secluded porch.†   (source)
  • "Just an approximation," he murmurs as he wedges the old book into his yawning bookbag and makes for the door, wondering about whether a particularly secluded carrel is free in the Rockefeller Library stacks.†   (source)
  • She and Sister Anjali secluded themselves in their cabin, bolting the door against men and sea.†   (source)
  • Portia had been raised in Box Hill, a dark and secluded community hidden by a swamp and a ridge with few whites anywhere near.†   (source)
  • The Internet brochure for Crow's Nest Ranch claimed that it was a secluded camping retreat eighteen miles west of Fort Davis, four hundred and thirty miles directly west of Austin.†   (source)
  • The room at the Pont-Royal on the rue Montalembert was small and in a secluded corner of the hotel, reached by taking the slow, noisy brass elevator to the top floor and walking down two narrow intersecting hallways, all of which was satisfactory to Bourne.†   (source)
  • But in winter, surrounded by mountains of snow, secluded from all society, she could as well have been in Greenland, she said.†   (source)
  • "Well, David, he's been in seclusion for nearly the entire time since he checked in.†   (source)
  • It was a natural arena, secluded from all but trees and sky.†   (source)
  • Of course it would be wasteful to have water running to this secluded place; the souls managed details like that better than to leave such an anomaly behind.†   (source)
  • It was decided, though not without a great deal of arguing, that in order for the summoning of Raziel to take place, Team Good would need to find a fairly secluded location.†   (source)
  • 'Our ancestors had the good fortune to live on an island or, rather, two islands — somewhat secluded.†   (source)
  • Agape had sung the year before and said she would sing again, spending the next few weeks in seclusion in the temple grounds while she practiced.†   (source)
  • Rowan pulled Theon away from the northmen praying before the tree, to a secluded spot back by the barracks wall, beside a pool of warm mud that stank of rotten eggs.†   (source)
  • After school on Thursday, we parked in a secluded place and made out until the alarm on his phone went off We adjusted our clothes and buckled up.†   (source)
  • Palm Springs, and Crosby's secluded home, is the perfect weekend hideaway after the hectic West Coast trip.†   (source)
  • He was in seclusion, according to family members, mourning the loss of a wonderful girl.†   (source)
  • Annie Kate carefully picked four birdlike shells from the dried-outinsides of the sand dollar, small and perishable as the wing bones of a hummingbird, each identical to the other, and each a perfectly wrought image of a grieving, secluded Paraclete.†   (source)
  • Two days later they dropped anchor in a secluded harbor about fifteen miles up the coast from Havana.†   (source)
  • The old building is comfortable and secluded and dark, with its narrow stained-glass windows and soft leather chairs.†   (source)
  • Lonelywood, a secluded town hidden away in a small, thick wood of fir trees, asked for nothing from anyone.†   (source)
  • "I'm worried that he's going to drive her to a secluded location, brutally interrogate her, and then cut her head off.†   (source)
  • Her perfume opened the gates of memory—the movies in Orlando, the dinners and dancing at the hotel in Winter Park, the isolated motel south of Canaveral, the morning they found a secluded pocket behind the dunes and were buzzed by a light plane and how the pilot almost side-slipped into the sea banking around for a second look, and most of all, his apartment.†   (source)
  • George was not a person who thought deeply on such matters, yet sometimes it seemed to him that men were like children amusing themselves in some secluded playground, protected from the fierce realities of the outer world.†   (source)
  • For now in some sunlit and serene pasture of the Tidewater, a secluded place hemmed around by undulant oak trees, my departed Maria was standing before me, with the abandon of a strumpet stripping down to the flesh—she who had never removed in my presence so much as her bobbysocks.†   (source)
  • She would meet him at four o'clock that afternoon on a park bench in a secluded grove where the kiss would take place.†   (source)
  • During the years of his provincial seclusion, he became so well read that even Lara no longer seemed to him well-informed.†   (source)
  • No point in alarming her; he went out of the back door in the rain and vomited in a secluded corner behind the garage.†   (source)
  • The illness, Dick's enforced seclusion and her enforced activity, had brought the farm near to her and made it real.†   (source)
  • a secluded romantic spot
  • her seclusion would endure but a little longer   (source)
    seclusion = separation from the presence of others
  • It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion ... that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.   (source)
  • Once he reached the seclusion of the freshly mown lawn, Ron rounded on Harry.†   (source)
  • The worst we got was an afternoon in seclusion.†   (source)
  • Therefore in the Orient, passivity and seclusion can be religious ideals.†   (source)
  • After the Riders' fall, elves had retreated into seclusion.†   (source)
  • Seclusion in Panama was almost an obligatory penance in the life of the rich.†   (source)
  • There were no objective criteria for deciding to put someone into seclusion.†   (source)
  • You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room.†   (source)
  • But yelling in the seclusion room was fine.†   (source)
  • The seclusion room was supposed to be soundproof.†   (source)
  • Anyone who sustained a higher level for more than a few hours was put in seclusion.†   (source)
  • You could pop into the seclusion room, shut the door, and yell for a while.†   (source)
  • The real purpose of the seclusion room, though, was to quarantine people who'd gone bananas.†   (source)
  • Two more singles, one double, a toilet, and seclusion.†   (source)
  • The seclusion-room etiquette was, If you weren't locked in, anybody could join you.†   (source)
  • They took her down to the end of the hall, to seclusion, while we watched.†   (source)
  • The seclusion room was the size of the average suburban bathroom.†   (source)
  • But there were pillars, wide high shafts of marble that provided areas of seclusion.†   (source)
  • Arya is the only being who can convince them to emerge from seclusion.†   (source)
  • I muse, I mope, I ruminate," he wrote in the seclusion of his diary.†   (source)
  • It was almost sunset and I hurried on to where our seclusion lodges had been.†   (source)
  • However, Jackie will soon break her self-imposed seclusion.†   (source)
  • I remember they took me out of the shaving room and locked me in Seclusion.†   (source)
  • The nurse reached the door of the Seclusion Room at the end of the hall.†   (source)
  • "Do you not sometimes sigh for such a seclusion?" she asked.†   (source)
  • His voice scraped the white, bare walls of the Seclusion Room.†   (source)
  • In search of quiet, seclusion, and obscurity.†   (source)
  • He had a private lab and demanded seclusion, which I gladly afforded him on account of his brilliance.†   (source)
  • In the years prior to his death, when Halliday had been living in seclusion, the only thing he'd posted on his website was a brief looping animation.†   (source)
  • For the next decade, Ogden and Kira enjoyed a peaceful, happy existence, living and working in relative seclusion.†   (source)
  • On the one hand there was the Renaissance's unremitting optimism—and on the other hand there were the many who sought the opposite extreme in a life of religious seclusion and self-denial.†   (source)
  • The Captain replied that they had only three passengers on board and all of them had cholera, but they were being kept in strict seclusion.†   (source)
  • The sisters of Dr. Urbino, without taking vows, went to live in seclusion in the Convent of the Salesians, and Fermina Daza stayed in her father's old house until the villa in La Manga was completed.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza had not yet finished his sixty days of seclusion when Justice published a front-page story, complete with photographs of the two protagonists, about the alleged secret love affair between Dr. Juvenal Urbino and Lucrecia del Real del Obispo.†   (source)
  • Unlike our seclusion room, they had windows, but the windows were tiny, high, chicken-wire-enforced, security-screened, barred windows.†   (source)
  • They were seclusion rooms, in fact.†   (source)
  • They let her out of seclusion, they gave her back her belt, and her nails started to grow in again, but Lisa didn't come back.†   (source)
  • Down at the end of the hall, muffled booming and yelling and crashing came out of the seclusion room.†   (source)
  • Seclusion worked.†   (source)
  • When he finished, Galbatorix emerged from seclusion and began to reassert his control over the Empire and the lands beyond.†   (source)
  • The moment Jormundur had seen her, he bundled her off to their camp, and she spent the rest of the day in seclusion.†   (source)
  • She looked at me blankly as I inhaled the marvelous scent of wood and seclusion of the house where I was born.†   (source)
  • There was another report on the radio, one you obviously didn't hear because you were with the police or in seclusion.†   (source)
  • He had inched him up through back alleys and smaller races, bypassing the nationally spotlighted races in favor of slow cultivation and parochial seclusion.†   (source)
  • But it served the unpretentious drow ranger well, allowing him the privacy and seclusion that he preferred above the taunts and threats of the humans.†   (source)
  • She is mourning in seclusion on Cape Cod, her easy smile replaced by a solemn downward gaze and her eyes hidden behind oversize sunglasses.†   (source)
  • At the end of our seclusion, the lodges and all their contents were burned, destroying our last links to childhood, and a great ceremony was held to welcome us as men to society.†   (source)
  • In fact, Jefferson and his family had headed south to the seclusion of Poplar Forest, his other, more remote plantation in Bedford County.†   (source)
  • And to unlock the Seclusion Room then.†   (source)
  • The humiliation that defeat and popular rejection had inflicted on them, the death of Charles, and now sudden, total seclusion took a heavy toll.†   (source)
  • Turkle was all but passed out when he got back from Seclusion, and we had to push him into the day room in a wheel chair.†   (source)
  • Some moderate Federalists and old friends warned Adams he could be doing himself and the country great harm by remaining too long in seclusion.†   (source)
  • As it was, she and Adams had ten days of forced seclusion in which to ponder such concerns, starting almost the moment Adams arrived at Quincy on the evening of March 18, 1801.†   (source)
  • The white pillows on the floor of the Seclusion Room were soaked from me peeing on them while I was out.†   (source)
  • Billy Bibbit and his girl mentioned that it was after four o'clock and, if it was all right, if people didn't mind, they'd like to have Mr. Turkle unlock the Seclusion Room.†   (source)
  • After years of seclusion at Monticello, Jefferson had, with amazing agility, stepped back into the kind of party politics he professed to abhor, and in no time emerged as leader of the opposition.†   (source)
  • That ward door opening means it's at least eight o'clock, means there's been maybe an hour and a half I was out cold in that Seclusion Room when the technicians could of come in and installed anything the Big Nurse ordered and I wouldn't have the slightest notion what.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Rush, Thomas Mifflin, and two or three other Philadelphia patriots had ridden out to welcome the Massachusetts men, and at a tavern in the village of Frankford, in the seclusion of a private room, they told the New Englanders they were "suspected of having independence in view."†   (source)
  • I can call to mind some mornings locked in Seclusion the black boys keep bringing seconds of everything-supposed to be for me, but they eat it instead-till all three of them get breakfast while I lie there on that pee-stinking mattress, watching them wipe up egg with toast.†   (source)
  • And only years later, in a letter to his daughter Polly, warning her against a life of seclusion, would Jefferson acknowledge that in fact he had suffered a breakdown very like what Adams had foreseen.†   (source)
  • She waited, without comment, while McMurphy continued to run around the halls in the mornings in his white-whale shorts, or pitched pennies in the dorms, or ran up and down the hall blowing a nickel-plated ref's whistle, teaching Acutes the fast break from ward door to the Seclusion Room at the other end, the ball pounding in the corridor like cannon shots and McMurphy roaring like a sergeant, "Drive, you puny mothers, drive!†   (source)
  • Only my hominess remained, aggravated by Sophie next to me in her white Lastex bathing suit and the total seclusion of our sandy nook, the clandestine nature of which made me a little feverish.†   (source)
  • Then, with Sophie safely in her temporary seclusion, I would do my damnedest to find Nathan and somehow deal with him—though this prospect filled my stomach with dread like a huge, sick football.†   (source)
  • In an excess of furtiveness—despite the total seclusion of the place—I slid out of my trunks and stood there beneath the strange churning gray summer sky, helplessly flaunting my manly state to the seraphim.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Sophie and I living on the modest plantation in dignified seclusion, my reputation growing, the author himself being increasingly importuned by the media but steadfastly refusing all interviews.†   (source)
  • It was out of the glare of daylight and the bustle of business, when Jews disappeared into their domestic quarantine and the seclusion of their sinister and Asiatic worship—with its cloudy suspicion of incense and rams' horns and sacrificial offerings, tambourines and veiled women, lugubrious anthems and keening banshee wails in a dead language—that the trouble began for an eleven-year-old Presbyterian.†   (source)
  • The hotel was a beautiful, secluded place.†   (source)
  • He grabbed two glasses and led us off to a secluded booth in the corner of the room.†   (source)
  • I'd made the mistake of sitting on a secluded bench, on the grounds of the university.†   (source)
  • Before they could say anything else, I drove up and parked in the secluded spot beside the church.†   (source)
  • Saphira sent him an image of a secluded clearing in the trees by the river.†   (source)
  • It was a secluded valley tucked into the bluffs.†   (source)
  • It was worth the danger of the secluded forest road.†   (source)
  • That place was way secluded and easy to defend.†   (source)
  • It was not a quaint village inn situated in a secluded nook of the countryside.†   (source)
  • Heavy rain pounds the cement surrounding us, but we have our own secluded place.†   (source)
  • Then, when the blue of her abdomen has reached its deepest shade, the female and her quartet find a secluded spot and go at it until the woman becomes pregnant and her blue colouring fades.†   (source)
  • It was an invitation to a private party being thrown by Trujillo himself in one of his secluded mansions three hours away.†   (source)
  • They were sitting in the dining room of Hammond's bungalow, in a secluded corner of the park not far from the labs.†   (source)
  • On a sunny day, it would have felt cozy and secluded—a place where Edgar could have relaxed and watched the flat, watery horizon without fear of being spotted.†   (source)
  • The doctor said Hansford had to be subdued and secluded because he was "dangerous to the hospital staff and to himself."†   (source)
  • Doctor Gordon's private hospital crowned a grassy rise at the end of a long, secluded drive that had been whitened with broken quahog shells.†   (source)
  • When they were finished, Thomas headed back to the secluded place where he'd slept the night before, in the corner behind the Deadheads.†   (source)
  • Not long after she arrived at Muncy, a male correctional officer pulled her into a secluded area and raped her.†   (source)
  • It's very secluded.†   (source)
  • And wouldn't those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when, so much later, Voldemort and needed a place to lie low, undisturbed, for ten long years?†   (source)
  • Troubled by the general moral demise of the East—manifest, particularly, in the Lindbergh kidnapping—the well-known home appliance magnate and his high-born Bostonian wife had brought their three sons, a maid, a cook, a butler, and a pair of private tutors to San Piedro's secluded shores.†   (source)
  • No one was supposed to know our destination, which was assumed to be somewhere out of town — some secluded, romantic inn.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Harry became aware that this was the first time that he had been alone with her since those stolen hours in secluded corners of the Hogwarts grounds.†   (source)
  • For about the same length of time, seven generations of Savannahians had been marooned in their hushed and secluded bower of a city on the Georgia coast.†   (source)
  • That Friday after school, the day Daito and Shoto cleared the First Gate, I was sitting in a secluded spot a few miles from my school, a steep hill with a solitary tree at the top.†   (source)
  • Every morning they made sure that they had removed all clues to their presence, then set off to find another lonely and secluded spot, traveling by Apparition to more woods, to the shadowy crevices of cliffs, to purple moors, gorse-covered mountainsides, and once a sheltered and pebbly cove.†   (source)
  • The tourists would leave Savannah in a few hours, enchanted by the elegance of this romantic garden city but none the wiser about the secrets that lay within the innermost glades of its secluded bower.†   (source)
  • The opposition he was met with on all sides led him to pursue a quiet and secluded life devoted entirely to philosophy.†   (source)
  • In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.†   (source)
  • I'd picked my spot because it was secluded, faced the wall, and was tucked away from everything, the same reasons it was the last place you wanted to find yourself trapped.†   (source)
  • This was a word he never thought he'd need to use but here it was, crouched for years in his secluded brain, coming out to elongate the loss.†   (source)
  • In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Ursula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • He finds a secluded parking place.†   (source)
  • We found a secluded place to park, hiked up under a thick stand of trees, and spread a thick blanket on a pine-needle carpet.†   (source)
  • That, coupled with his meditation in the secluded glade, provided Eragon with his first opportunity since the previous day to order his thoughts and consider the question that Oromis had posed him.†   (source)
  • Instead, I fretted about Ian's visit, worrying that Jared would work even harder to keep me secluded after Ian's strange reaction.†   (source)
  • Detouring to a secluded spot.†   (source)
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