People left their hearths and home to live the life of a recluse and a hermit in deserts and mountains. |
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Since then, Spector has been a virtual recluse, dogged by rumours of mania and madness. |
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Scorsese and scriptwriter John Logan have decided to make a meal of the illness that eventually forced him in later life to become a recluse. |
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He became a recluse, and his rare film appearances were overshadowed by tales of his eccentric behaviour on set. |
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I had worked in telesales in a builders' merchants, so I was used to dealing with the public, but I'd just become a bit of a recluse. |
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Abhorring theological speculations, he did not commend renouncing the world and living the life of a recluse. |
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Not for him the tongue-tied introversion of the self-conscious artist or the mute autism of the affected recluse. |
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That's because you're a doddering old recluse who doesn't get out of the house nearly half as much as is good for you. |
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The fiftysomething multimillionaire, who lives in Newport Beach, California, is something of a recluse. |
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In place of a posturing virile hero, Sayles presents a boozy social recluse, the first in his lowlife parade of outsiders. |
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In other respects, he is famously reticent, averse to showmanship and actually something of a camera-shy recluse. |
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Shunned by her former society friends, she became a recluse and rarely ever ventured outside. |
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I moved into my new antiseptic apartment, anonymously beige and thoroughly inoffensive, and became a relative recluse. |
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The word 'hermit' is linguistically related to 'eremite', a religious recluse. |
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He left school when he was 12 years old and, by his own admission, became somewhat of a recluse. |
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This turn of events, this sad return after so many vain boasts, would have made a shamed recluse out of a normal human being. |
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People generally try to avoid brown recluse spiders because their bites fester into painful sores. |
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In other respects, he is famously reticent, adverse to showmanship and actually something of a camera-shy recluse. |
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Everything went to show that she had made a conquest of the recluse of the New Hall. |
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Other Loxosceles spiders exist in the southwest, although most ulcerating spider bites are caused by the brown recluse. |
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The brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, often gets a particularly bad rap. |
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The isolation restricts your mind and you're likely to become a very angry, bitter recluse full of hate for others as well as yourself. |
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And he was a hermit, a recluse or what have you, or something like it. |
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But I'm not a recluse so it was only a minor gripe and things like midnight feasts and all the fun myths that go with boarding school sort of made up for it. |
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The spider was a brown recluse, I think, which is very poisonous. |
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Two years later, in 1953, he evacuated to Cornish and became a celebrity recluse. |
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He lives as a virtual recluse on a rural estate near Andover, Hampshire, but owns shooting estates in Rosedale, North Yorkshire and other parts of Northern England. |
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He was a very secretive sort of individual, a very recluse sort of a person, and didn't have much to do with many of the people of this congregation. |
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He quickly dismisses any notion that he's turned into a work-shy recluse. |
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Despite their negative reputation, brown recluse spiders get blamed for crimes they did not commit, says an arachnologist who is doing his best to set the record straight. |
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But Uchitel became a heavy drug user and, increasingly, a recluse in his sprawling Anchorage estate. |
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Family and friends said that the past few years have been very troubling for her as she had suffered from many mental breakdowns and remained a virtual recluse. |
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When she disappeared for three years, rumours circulated that she had suffered a mental breakdown and her reputation as a mysterious recluse was forged. |
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Studious at Cambridge, though no recluse, the young junior minister was thought a bit of a prig. |
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The brown thrush is instinctively and irreclaimably a recluse. |
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At other times, overcome with shyness, self-doubt, despair and exhaustion, he was practically a recluse. |
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He was not a recluse, however, as the documents and electronic chips recovered by the SEALs from his lair revealed. |
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Anyway, he preferred to remain a recluse. Suzanne volunteered to deliver the now rather shabby typescript. |
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As the recluse did not want to learn arithmetic or grammar, and never yet could make out why people persist in writing down meditations, he fell back upon the biography. |
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Ghislain: This marginal recluse has established a routine life, where listening to his blues albums is his only fantasy. |
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Following several interviews with these persons, the police were able to identify the likely supplier, a recluse who rarely left his home. |
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Yet, although he may seem a bit reticent, he certainly is not a recluse. |
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One myth is that he was a misanthrope, a grumbling recluse, whose work was as morose as his life. |
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The famous courtesan, LIANG Hongyu, who rejects the honours bestowed by the Emperor, chooses to live as a recluse in her brothel. |
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If it becomes severe they may withdraw from public life altogether and become a recluse. |
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When she died, rumors flew that Roger had died as well, as his grief had made him a recluse. |
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If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse. |
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Don't come to her office expecting the stereotypic mousy recluse buried beneath a mountain of paperwork, says Stefania Ricci, the museum director and archivist for Salvatore Ferragamo. |
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But in 1831 another brooklet found its way to Westvleteren: the prior of the just founded Catsberg monastery and a few of his monks moved to the woods of Saint Sixtus to settle with Jan-Baptist Victoor, a recluse. |
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Buffet has been an untalkative, serious, polite recluse, who now works in a luxurious manoir in the forest of Montmorency, which once belonged to a Prince de Conde. |
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My middle finger of the left hand had a meeting with a Loxosceles reclosa, a brown recluse spider. |
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She moved from Roseburg years ago, after being bitten by a brown recluse spider. |
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The press is always going on about how Jean-Louis is this weird kind of recluse, hiding himself away in Auvergne, and I thought it would be fun to play around with that image a bit. |
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Brown recluse spiders must have been found in the region, and other probable or proved bites must have occurred recently. |
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After a tangle with a brown recluse spider, Linda Zumbusch needed a little medical attention. |
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When a normally upbeat person becomes cantankerous and aggressive, however, or a usually social individual suddenly turns into a recluse, there is definitely cause for concern. |
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The film turns him from the engaging, often witty and openly gay man he really was into a socially dysfunctional recluse, unable to understand jokes and shamed by his own sexuality. |
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In later years he disappeared so frequently from the American scene that he was often assumed to be dead, or living as a recluse in the woods somewhere. |
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Yet his reputation as an eccentric recluse has ensured his lasting fame. |
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Rather than going into a shell and becoming a recluse, he decided to become an advocate for and a tireless worker on behalf of victims across Canada. |
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Some have gone into the position of just being a recluse and living alone. |
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Abandoning his ambitious philosophical work on the theory of the will, the young man, prematurely aged by his compulsive desires, will die a recluse. |
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As Miss Tees puts it: the librarian is not a recluse in an ivory tower, but a person interested in people and events, with a sense of responsibility as an integral part of a functioning organization. |
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In the last months of his life Gainsbourg became something of a recluse, rarely leaving his Parisian home, where the walls were becoming increasingly covered with graffiti by adoring fans. |
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Until his death he remained a recluse in the social sense and never became involved with any institution or clearly defined group of people. |
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She said that she had considered becoming a recluse, but eventually decided against the idea for the sake of her fans. |
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A Sikh is encouraged not to live as a recluse, beggar, monk, nun, celibate, or in any similar vein. |
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A local bank clerk who is something of a recluse, disdaining human relationships in favor of accumulating finely crafted technological artifacts. |
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Wanting to avoid becoming a recluse and not speaking at all, which is what Jon explained can become of a stammerer, he decided to act upon it during his final year of studies. |
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Rowling disputes her reputation as a recluse who hates to be interviewed. |
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In his final years Brangwyn lived as a recluse at Ditchling. |
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A brown recluse spider had decided to share the space with him. |
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Doctors told Jonathon Hogg he could have died after he was bitten by a poisonous brown recluse spider, which he believes happened on a flight from Qatar to South Africa. |
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The couple filed a claim in 2008 with their insurance company, State Farm, and a lawsuit against the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem. |
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Early in the morning, before the first forelight of dawn had started the birds to prophetic chirpings, the recluse heard light movements in the outer room. |
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