All 8 Uses of
recluse
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Not with such fervor prays the torpid recluse, looking forward to the cold, sunless, stagnant calm of a day that is to be like innumerable yesterdays.†
Chpt 2
- This business of setting up a petty shop is almost the only resource of women, in circumstances at all similar to those of our unfortunate recluse.†
Chpt 2
- How could the born lady—the recluse of half a lifetime, utterly unpractised in the world, at sixty years of age,—how could she ever dream of succeeding, when the hard, vulgar, keen, busy, hackneyed New England woman had lost five dollars on her little outlay!†
Chpt 3
- Yet, in consideration of Miss Hepzibah's recluse way of life, a letter had actually been written and despatched, conveying information of Phoebe's projected visit.†
Chpt 4
- A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness,
Chpt 5 *recluse = someone who avoids contact with others
- Not surely her cousin Hepzibah's, who had no taste nor spirits for the lady-like employment of cultivating flowers, and—with her recluse habits, and tendency to shelter herself within the dismal shadow of the house—would hardly have come forth under the speck of open sky to weed and hoe among the fraternity of beans and squashes.†
Chpt 6
- Meanwhile, Holgrave took some pains to establish an intercourse with Clifford, actuated, it might seem, entirely by an impulse of kindliness, in order that the present hour might be cheerfuller than most which the poor recluse had spent, or was destined yet to spend.†
Chpt 10
- Still haunted with the idea that not one of the past incidents, inclusive of Judge Pyncheon's visit, could be real, the recluse of the Seven Gables murmured in her brother's ear,— "Clifford!†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(recluse) someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)