All 5 Uses of
secluded
in
Bleak House
- "Nine years, my dear," he said after thinking for a little while, "have passed since I received a letter from a lady living in seclusion, written with a stern passion and power that rendered it unlike all other letters I have ever read.†
Chpt 16-18
- With these magnificent portraits, unworthily confined in a band-box during his seclusion among the market-gardens, he decorates his apartment; and as the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of prospect, and is backed up by every variety of flower-pot and balustrade, the result is very imposing.†
Chpt 19-21
- As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- That secluded sister is my first remembrance.†
Chpt 43-45
- Mrs. Bagnet hurried us into a more secluded place and was at first too breathless to proceed, occasioning Mr. Bagnet to say, "Old girl!†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(secluded) separated from the presence of others