Among many other observations, Alvares recorded the age-old custom of secluding all members of the royal line, other than the King's children, on an almost sheer-sided mountain.

Mario Lemieux, after secluding himself for nearly an hour in an off-limits room in the basement of the Spectrum Sunday night, slipped out a side door to further avoid reporters.

Although purdah is commonly associated with Islam, many scholars argue that veiling and secluding women pre-dates Islam; these practices were commonly found among various groups in the Middle East such as Druze, Christian, and Jewish communities.

Yet she is by no means a woman secluded from life.

But she has been secluded in another part of the city.

They secluded all the women in their families from the outside world.

On the loss of his wife in 1805 he secluded himself for seven years.

Why was he secluded with the trainers for so long?

These schools also welcomed girls, who before had always been secluded at home.

There are three special gardens secluded from the main green area.

"To us out here, the course change was obviously required, but he has secluded himself, too much so perhaps, to view things that way."

They were happy enough, for their own reasons, to see the foreigners secluded.

And so those who can, end up secluding themselves among their nice possessions.

"What a waste for him to seclude himself on that little bit of coast."

Was there a reason other than tradition that he'd been secluded from her before the ceremony?

So Yang made this garden to seclude himself from social position.

She called her husband an eccentric who once secluded himself in the house for five years to learn how to play the organ.

The young couple were now secluded together for a week in a specially decorated apartment.

Kevin Brown had spent the morning secluded in his office beneath the embassy.

The three mimes had secluded themselves in the after cabin.

"For the very survival of your race, you had to seclude yourself from the other races."

In his last years, Stalin lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze.

In struggling up from the great disaster, a few strong leaders had secluded themselves to work out a plan for survival.

After the disappearance of his daughter, he has secluded himself in the royal chambers.

They keep the yard secluded all year round and do not drop leaves into the pool.

"I never wanted to be secluded from other people.

The humans were secluded on a mountain with heavy snowfall.

The priests were a separate class, secluded from society.