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Even the results of Britain's Got Ice-Factor may lay prettily glistening beyond my remit now that I am self-banished.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

And we saw that solitary death-bed of Wharton the self-banished whilst yet in his youth, and marvelled what silent, secret sorrow had bid him flee the world.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)

To the world, and more especially England, he presented himself in no other aspect than that of a stern, haughty misanthrope, self-banished from the society of men, and most of all from that of Englishmen.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John

A week passed, and then another; and as he could say nothing about riding, he was in a measure self-banished from Arctura's company.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George

Cosmopolitan as he is, self-banished exile, quick with Greek and Italian sympathies, Byron never for one moment forgets that he is head of one of England's proudest families.

From A Day with Lord Byron by Gillington, May Clarissa