recluses

There is something in the fact of a hermitage that cannot fail to touch the imagination; the recluses are a sad kindred, but they are never commonplace.

On Shell-heap Island 1910

It's funny how the "recluses" are getting to travel these days.

Michael Sucsy: Inspiration in Squalor: How I "Rebuilt" Grey Gardens 2009

From my experience of such men and women, these 'recluses' would make some of the very finest judges - steeped in knowledge of the law, yet also super-saturated with the spirit of justice and of mercy.

"I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..." Ann Althouse 2007

The arrangement of the ground might have suited the peculiar tastes and habits of the "recluses;" but it is certainly very far inferior to the picturesque effect, which landscape gardening in the present day could _there_ produce.

The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" John Hicklin

It's funny how the "recluses" are getting to travel these days.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael Sucsy 2009

"recluses," are met with again and again in these old records, who more than once became Abbots of Iona itself.

The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

All of this made us something of our own little tribe of nomadic recluses, outsiders within this greater tribe of outsiders permanently passing through America.

A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy 2010

I've heard that there are brown recluses here, but I've never seen one in Mexico.

biting insects 2009

I've heard that there are brown recluses here, but I've never seen one in Mexico.

biting insects 2009

Albert Maysles & David Maysles, 2006, 91 min. The 1976 cinema vérité classic Grey Gardens, which captured in remarkable close-up the lives of the eccentric East Hampton recluses Big and Little Edie Beale, has spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical, to a Hollywood adaptation.

Maysles Cinema June 13-21 Schedule « 2010