recluseness

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

In pursuance of this plan we turned out of the main road, and entered a narrow one, which by its recluseness and solitude seemed to lead us into the recesses of the country.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

Aix, the capital of Provence, is very pleasantly situated in a valley, surrounded by hills, which give it an air of recluseness, and romantic retirement, without being so close as to prevent the due circulation of air.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

The town, on the whole, had an air of rusticity and recluseness which might have delighted a romantic imagination.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

Mr. Bell's ordinary life was one neither of seclusion nor of widely extended social courtesies; but of active benevolence and cheerful retirement, disfigured neither by ostentatious philanthropy nor studied recluseness.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Because of his consistent recluseness, foregone to-night for her pleasure, Carlisle had meant rather to exhibit Mr. Canning to enraptured eyes than to subject him to a flood of undesired introductions.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851