When she died, rumors flew that Roger had died as well, as his grief had made him a recluse.

Epaminondas, although associated with that faction, was allowed to remain ; since " his philosophy made him to be looked down upon as a recluse, and his poverty as impotent ".

He made a cameo appearance as a dying recluse in the 2008 Torchwood episode " A Day in the Death ".

Buddhist sources assert that, while feigning a hunting trip, an adolescent Atiśa made the acquaintance of the brahmin Jetari, a Buddhist recluse and renowned teacher.

In 1893 the estate was purchased by a very wealthy American, William Waldorf Astor ( later 1st Lord Astor ), who made sweeping alterations to the gardens and the interior of the house, but lived at Cliveden as a recluse after the early death of his wife.

Cam., has served as Prioress since its foundation, which she made with two companions, Sisters Placid ( a former recluse from France ) and Jean Marie Pearse, a native of the region.

In older instruments, reticle crosshairs and stadia marks were made using threads taken from the cocoon of the brown recluse spider.

Though undoubtedly idle, he was not truly lethargic: he made several visits to the United States and Italy, and struck up many new friendships, despite his later reputation as a recluse.

In 482 he was made Bishop of Taxara, Armenia and left the office nine years later to become a recluse in the monastery of St. Sabas.

Pickford gradually became a recluse, remaining almost entirely at Pickfair, allowing visits only from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a few select others.

In the United States, only spider bites from the brown recluse spider ( genus Loxosceles ) have been proven to cause necrosis.

The number of " false positive " reports based on misidentifications is considerable ; in a nationwide study where people submitted spiders that they thought were brown recluses, of 581 from California only 1 was a brown recluse — submitted by a family that moved from Missouri and brought it with them ( compared to specimens submitted from Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, where between 75 % and 90 % were recluses ).

In his final years, he lived as a recluse in an apartment 120 rue du Bac, Paris, only leaving his house to pay visits to Juliette Récamier in l ' Abbaye-aux-Bois.

Sensei lives as a recluse, interacting only with his wife and the narrator, and occasional unseen visitors, but still maintaining a distance between himself and them.

Otherwise, she became a recluse, leaving her room only for her visits to church.

Barlow is an apparent recluse ; only his business partner, Richard Straker, is seen in public.

Despite prior claims, he was not her boyfriend, and the only date they went on ended violently, leaving Johnny with severe head trauma and making her into a recluse for the next few weeks.

Bahya is not so one-sided as to recommend the practise of the recluse, who has at heart only the welfare of his own soul.

Viktor initially claims that Simone is a recluse and requests her privacy be respected, but that only intensifies media demands for her to appear.

This is unlikely, as ibn Muhammad showed very little interest in governing, becoming a neurotic recluse who was only interested in hunting and his faith.

It was only after Bloet's death that Christina was able to be consecrated as a recluse at St Albans Abbey.

He never married, and was known to be a recluse, whose only true cares were observing and writing about the life of the poor, and chanting at church: he was referred to as " kosmokalogeros " ( κοσμοκαλόγερος, " a monk in the world ").

When her only son Willie Sprague took his own life at age 25 in 1890, Kate Chase became a recluse.

So much of a recluse had he become, through fear of being ordered away by the authorities, that his health greatly suffered, and he could only walk across his narrow room with difficulty.

Drury had himself met her only on one occasion, at her apartment in 1977, at a time when she had become somewhat of a recluse.

A recluse, he is claimed to have performed publicly only occasionally at his home, in consort with his two daughters, whom he had trained.

The Belle du Dézaley mural was very poorly received, causing Auberjonois to become a virtual recluse in his Lausanne studio throughout the 1930s, interrupted only by a brief liaison with his model Simone Hauert.

Don Jaime is a recluse, living on a neglected farm with only a couple of servants, Ramona ( Margarita Lozano ) and Moncho, and Ramona's daughter Rita.

Even though it had better fortune in the United Kingdom, peaking at # 3 in the singles charts on first release, Spector was so disillusioned that he ceased involvement in the recording industry totally for two years, and only intermittently returned to the studio after that ; he effectively became a recluse and began to self-destruct.

They give three reasons for this: Maj. Major " always followed the rules, yet no-one liked him or trusted him "; his swift promotion to the rank of Major where he then remains is " a clear foreshadowing of the Peter Principle "; and the anathema to Maj. Major of being identified with Fonda, a symbol of competence, causes Maj. Major to retreat from everyone around him, making efforts to hide and to become, in the novel's words, a recluse "&# 91 ; i &# 93 ; n the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people ".

It is through-composed and centers on a romantic encounter between a blind recluse named Donato and the title character, a married woman living in a European country a few years after a recent war.

Charlotte, aware that Letitia was in line to inherit a fortune, posed as Letitia and returned to England ; few people knew Charlotte, as she had been a recluse before leaving England, and a slight change in Letitia's appearance could be explained away to casual acquaintances by her time abroad during the war.

After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.

Aeschylus had written his own epitaph commemorating his life as a warrior fighting for Athens against Persia, without any mention of his success as a playwright, and Sophocles was celebrated by his contemporaries for his social gifts and contributions to public life as a state official, but there are no records of Euripides's public life except as a dramatisthe could well have been " a brooding and bookish recluse ".

Other elements include Bruce Wayne becoming a recluse after retiring from being Batman, Batman's first public reappearance during a high-speed car chase between police and criminals ( replaced by Bane and cohorts in the film ), and the remark an observing veteran cop tells his young partner (" We're in for a show, kid ").

To escape the public anger and insults, he runs away to be a recluse.

After Conway retired from public life, he became somewhat of a recluse.

Bramah was a recluse who did not give the public details of his personal life.

By 1958, Howard Hughes had become a recluse who hated any kind of public scrutiny.

To reinforce the public perception of Hughes as an eccentric recluse, Irving also created fake interviews that he claimed were conducted in remote locations all over the world, including one on a Mexican pyramid.

He learned that Cooke had become a recluse nearby at her mother's estate after her public disgrace.

In 1957, after her divorce from Cramer, Peters married Howard Hughes, shortly before he faded from public view and became an eccentric recluse.

A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society.

She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any public appearances.