Shut off from view

Usage examples of seclude.

Commander bn Bem remained secluded in his cabin, having his meals sent in and refusing to have anything whatsoever to do with anyone.

In place of Tonk the mobster, a weird figure had joined Driller Borson in the secluded room.

Or a secluded landing area where the Mrachanis could raise everyone aboard to Eldership and dissect the ship at their leisure?

Only from the tennis-court building, in its secluded corner of the famous demesne, did gleams of gaslight faintly mitigate the dank, muffling vapour.

Matthew Griffon lived on a secluded estate somewhere on the rocky Maine coast.

Chatterford has the advantage of its secluded location, which means the ability to come and go without comment, partly because of the distance from neighbours and partly because such as it has are quite accustomed to carriage traffic at all hours.

Yet, in that calm secluded spot, and under the cold, pure light which fell so holily, what a hell was weltering and glaring!

Secluded in his castle on Kaon, Dooku had just spoken with the general and was pondering how best to handle the situation.

Not at all desiring the kind of brouhaha that had attended the disappearances of the band members, months back, Arsen had Bedros pack the sort of clothing and associated gear that he would need for his field work, had him inform various colleagues by telephone that he was driving to an unnamed spot out west to check on an unnamed something, then had him drive his car to a secluded spot and projected it and him to a rear corner in the six-car garage at the mansion of Kogh Ademian.

Boys are more liable to be morbidly excited when secluded from the society of girls, and vice versa.

Snake had added, and so, while Bud, Nort and Dick would have been willing to slump down almost anywhere, and camp as soon as they found water, this secluded site was selected.

During the heat of the day the oorial conceal themselves a good deal, retiring to the most secluded places, but often coming down to feed in the evening on the crops surrounding the villages.

And the old storyteller, laughing, would flee with the boy to some secluded place where they would feast on the fruits of their pilferage and the old man, tasting frequently from a flagon of stolen wine or beer, would regale his student with stories out of the dim past.

Thus, for instance, the old-fashioned witch is no longer found in any part of Ireland, her memory lingering only as a tradition, but her modern successor is frequently met with, and in many parishes a retired hovel in a secluded lane is a favorite resort of the neighboring peasants, for it is the home of the Pishogue, or wise woman, who collects herbs, and, in her way, doctors her patients, sometimes with simple medicinal remedies, sometimes with charms, according to their gullibility and the nature of their ailments.

Instead of being packed like rats into a gridlocked suburb, you can relax on a lush, secluded ten-acre ranchette, not far from the historic Suwannee River.