If this voluntary recluse came or went in the palace or in the streets of Ferrara he seemed to be searching for something which he could not find.

Manning lived on, an eccentric recluse, until 1840.

The elder a bold, frank, impetuous, chivalric adventurer; the younger a gentle, studious, book-loving recluse; they lived upon the ancestral estate like mated birds, one always on the wing, the other always in the nest.

[COWPER, THE RELIGIOUS RECLUSE] I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixed My panting side was charged, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.

I see by thy quest of this same holy recluse that thou art a good young man and most reverent to the cloth.

Paula was near, to supply his simple wants, and give, with other pious recluses, all the society he required.

One naturally inquires why the amiable recluse never, in his best days, thought of marriage: a difficult question to be answered.

They believed it without a thought that it had entered the mind of a fantastic recluse in the retirement of l'Hermitage, and, in obedience to that belief, they severed the ties of tradition and kindred, exposed their homes and the lives of those whose lives were dearer to them than their own to the rage of civil war, and placed all they hoped for and everything they loved upon the perilous hazard of the sword.

When De Valmont returned and knew his losses, he became a wayward recluse, querulous, despondent, frantic at times, and at times most melancholy.

" "Yes, it was a providence," broke in the count"a real hermit, not one of those fat friars, with shaven crowns, we have in Rome, but a genuine recluse, a man whose life is one long act of practical piety.

He became anxious in his mind to put this in execution; "but to mount on horseback, [said his majesty to himself,] and take a retinue with me, and go like a king, is not becoming; it is better to change my dress, and go at night and alone to visit the graves of the dead, or some godly recluse, and keep awake all night; perhaps by the mediation of these holy men, the desires of this world and salvation in the next, may be obtained.

Indeed, no half-hour passed without audible indication that the little recluse was in merry mood.

I am no minion: You stand (methinks) like men that would be Courtiers, If you could well be fiatter'd at a price, Not to undo your Children: y'are all honest: Go get you home again, and make your Country A vertuous Court, to which your great ones may, In their Diseased age, retire, and live recluse.

Tuesday, April 4.Thirty-six hours of Ghari Habibullah give ample time for the loneliest recluse to pant for the bustle of a livelier world.

He did not desire that she should remain a lovely recluse, feeding birds on the top of the citadel.

Richard Rolle (c. 1300-1349), of Hampole, near Doncaster, and the Lady Julian, a Benedictine nun of Norwich (1342-c.1413), are the two most interesting examples of the mediæval recluse in England.

Twice in his life the morbid emperor Tiberius shrank from the eyes of men, once at Rhodes and afterwards at Capreae,a melancholy recluse worn out by hard work.

In weightier matters than mere travel, Wordsworth showed himself no mere recluse.

Belinda, a young lady of fortune in Warwickshire, comes to London on business and meets at her lodging-house a mysterious fair recluse.

To the pale and fastidious recluse and anchorite, their tone of genial remonstrance with the world and its ways was totally alien.

He now made himself a rigid recluse.

Its book-lined walls advertised him as the scholarly recluse that he was not.

"Perhaps his father, the scientific recluse, had accumulated some money, and the boy came to America to get rid of it.

I was proposed by Holland, and seconded by Harcourt, and accepted office with no light heart: there will be much trouble and thought needed to work it satisfactorily, but it will take me out of myself a little, and so may be a real goodmy life was tending to become too much that of a selfish recluse.

The elder a bold, frank, impetuous, chivalric adventurer; the younger a gentle, studious, book-loving recluse; they lived upon the ancestral estate like mated birds, one always on the wing, the other always in the nest.