All 3 Uses of
secluded
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Boldwood lived secluded and inactive.†
Chpt 49-51 *
- All was harmoniously arranged at last, and we now see Oak mounted on a strong cob, and daily trotting the length breadth of about two thousand acres in a cheerful spirit of surveillance, as if the crops all belonged to him—the actual mistress of the one-half and the master of the other, sitting in their respective homes in gloomy and sad seclusion.†
Chpt 49-51
- She noticed that instead of entering the small parlour or office where the farm accounts were kept, and waiting, or leaving a memorandum as he had hitherto done during her seclusion, Oak never came at all when she was likely to be there, only entering at unseasonable hours when her presence in that part of the house was least to be expected.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(secluded) separated from the presence of others