1 It is evidently the theory of some arm-chair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
3 I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON 4 Connie had stood and looked, it was a breach in the pure seclusion of the wood.
5 He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood.
6 But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory.
7 "'Tis very lonesome for 'ee in the heth tonight, mis'ess," said Christian, coming from the seclusion he had hitherto maintained.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 8 We shall, of course, live in absolute seclusion, and our married life will only begin to outward view when we take the house in Budmouth, where I have already addressed a letter on the matter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 9 Knowledge of his state could only make her the more unhappy; and the seclusion of their life was such that she would hardly be likely to learn the news except through a special messenger.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 10 We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
11 Here it was wofully visible, in this intense seclusion of the forest, which of itself would have been a heavy trial to the spirits.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVI. A FOREST WALK 12 But at length she was secured by the exertions of Elinor, who greatly disapproved such continual seclusion.
13 Mrs. Brandley had been a friend of Miss Havisham's before the time of her seclusion.
14 She ordered all the books that were praised in the foreign papers and reviews she received, and read them with that concentrated attention which is only given to what is read in seclusion.
15 Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour.