recluse's

In the front room they found the recluse's body decently disposed, with an undertaker's assistant in charge.

Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Suspicion fell upon the recluse's nephew, one Maxwell, who vanished with the discovery of the murder.

From Place to Place 1910

He had the recluse's love of little possessions and daily comforts.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

Later he learned that the Earl had led a recluse's life among books until the war began.

Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers 1895

Without reply, the knight hastily muffled the recluse's head in the veil, and the latter began to ascend the staircase as one too much accustomed to the way to require the use of light, while at the same time he held the lamp to the Scot, who followed him for many steps up the narrow ascent.

The Talisman 1894

But if the recluse's wealth was a lure which drew the beggars from far and near, as the lamp draws the moths, it had the same power of attraction upon another and much more dangerous class.

The Doings of Raffles Haw Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Balder had shone across the beautiful recluse's path, and linked her to outside realities by a chain which, whether he went or stayed, would never break.

Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890

But what if dreams of a return to the life of the world should arise after to-day in the recluse's mind?

The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889

Yet he could not wholly escape the recluse's malady.

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson John Morley 1880

When Sherkan heard this, his heart was sore troubled and he alighted from his horse, in amazement, and kissed the recluse's hands and feet.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879