seclusion

• Bernardo bade his brethren leave their seclusion, and go forth on works of mercy among the sick. —  New Italian sketches
• He therefore remained for three days in seclusion, and then departed in secret. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• The latter part of his life was passed in seclusion, at Roxbury, where, in 1800, he married the widow Theoda Davis. —  Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
• In fact, for the most part, except in the earlier stages perhaps, seclusion is a mistake; for the world is the best place for the unfolding of the sense of unity, and best amongst men and women and children can we call out the powers of the spiritual life. —  London Lectures of 1907
• Here there was seclusion, and here, therefore, young Mrs. Percival had her hammock and her group of chairs and tables; and here she spent long indolent afternoons in sleepy reading and sleepier dreaming, which was only less agreeable than the social triumphs of which she dreamed. —  Jewel Weed

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