| 1. | Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Heathcliff did not exist for her she was a perfect recluse and, apparently, perfectly contented. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | But through the remainder of Hester's life there were indications that the recluse of the scarlet letter was the object of love and interest with some inhabitant of another land. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 4. | As the sky grew less gloomy indeed, began to grow a little genial, he became still less and less a recluse as if, when the ship had sailed from home, nothing but the dead wintry bleakness of the sea had then kept him so secluded. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | The dour recluse still there he has his cake and the douce youngling, minion of pleasure, Phedo's toyable fair hair. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | And be on thy guard, also, against the assaults of thy love Too readily doth the recluse reach his hand to any one who meeteth him. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | Not one of the young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to distinguish. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |