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We spent much of the evening in retiredness of mind, our spirits being weightily gathered inward, so that not much discourse passed among us; neither they to me, nor I to them offered any occasion. 

From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Ellwood, Thomas

These are to improve the leisure which perhaps you may enjoy in your retiredness from this place.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David

In this place he pass'd away some time in reading, and commended the place for its retiredness.

From Boscobel Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation by Blount, Thomas

She sails by that rock, the court, Where oft virtue splits her mast; And retiredness thinks the port Where her fame may anchor cast.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The retiredness and severity of his life, joined with a hypocritical exterior of virtue, a superficial learning, and a fluency of words, gained him some reputation in the world.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban