It came to his understanding, however, that if you mouth a helpless baby robin, a hand or a stick falls upon you hurtfully, even if you evade it for the moment and seclude yourself under a porch until it would seem that so trifling an occurrence must have been utterly forgotten.

As it is, if my presence imperils your social standing you can seclude me until the next train.

Sir, I have vowd, Since by my meanes my daughter and her love Perishd unhappily, to seclude my selfe From mans Society.

V. be excluded from &c; exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect &c 460; banish &c (seclude) 893; separate &c (disjoin) 44. pass over, omit; garble; eliminate, weed, winnow.

V. displace, misplace, displant^, dislodge, disestablish; exile &c (seclude) 893; ablegate^, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft off; lade &c 184. unload, empty &c (eject) 297; transfer &c 270; dispel. vacate; depart &c 293.

[Fr.], lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush) 530; seclude oneself &c 893; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep^, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.

If a nation seclude itself, it is an exile in the midst of humanity.

It was at this time that Pascal and Clotilde ceased to seclude themselves.

His paragraphs now seem to have a bitter smile in them, from the consciousness of a mind too penetrating to accept any other man's ideas, and too equally competent in all directions to seclude his power in any one form of creation, but rather fitted to hang over them all as a lamp of guidance to the stumblers below.

of encender, lighted, inflamed, burning, glowing, aflame, aglow, blazing, passionate. encerrar, to confine, imprison, enclose, embody; refl., to shut oneself up, seclude onself, retire.

If our sensations of kindness be intense, those, whom we have revered and loved, death cannot wholly seclude from our concern.

Immediately after the long-drawn funeral observances the bereaved familymother, daughters, sons and sons-in-lawcame down to seclude themselves at Saint Desert; and Undine, through the slow hot crape-smelling months, lived encircled by shrouded images of woe in which the only live points were the eyes constantly fixed on her least movements.

Those States, just as they are arriving at a controlling influence in the affairs of a great and powerful nation, are hardly likely to seclude themselves from the rest of the world in what would, from its position, be at best an insignificant republic.

When they return from such a campaign, if they have shed blood they paint their faces black, and seclude themselves from the women.

The negro-traderlike hangmen, negro-traders are fitted by nature for their professionit came into his headhe had no heart, not even a negro-trader's heartthat it would be more judicious to seclude her during these shopping visits, so to speak.

During all this John Caldigate was specially careful not to seclude himself from public view, or to seem to be afraid of his fellow-creatures.

And this is the more extraordinary, because he did not seclude himself from the public gaze like those Oriental despots whose faces are never seen, and whose very names it is a crime to pronounce lightly.

No one complains if they seclude themselves at certain hours.

Was it not utterly alien to the spirit of Christ thus to seclude oneself in light and warmth, among sweet strains of music and holy pictures?

And after all, though we shelter our lives and seclude them as we may, we have all of us a heavy burden to bear.

If one is thus endowed by nature, it seems such an easy thing to seclude oneself from life, and to find endless joy in sight and hearing and critical appreciation.

Not only was she secluded from her family and the community, but an attempt was made to seclude the world from her.

Hindoo women seclude themselves at their monthly periods and observe a number of rules, such as not to drink milk, not to milk cows, not to touch fire, not to lie on a high bed, not to walk on common paths, not to cross the track of animals, not to walk by the side of flowering plants, and not to observe the heavenly bodies.

Nair women in Malabar seclude themselves for three days at menstruation and prepare their food in separate pots and pans.

And he would seclude himself in turn in the particular recess whose decor seemed best to correspond with the very essence of the work his caprice of the moment induced him to read.