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.

* Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date ( yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649 )

After the death of his wife, John Renty Baker became a recluse and lived in a rockhouse ( rockshelter ) near the mouth of Buffalo Creek and died there in 1820.

Castellano became a recluse, rarely venturing outside the mansion.

Bosnich developed a $ 5, 000-a-week cocaine addiction and became a recluse.

He became a recluse and spent much of his time alone reading Socialist and anarchist newspapers while drinking milk in his mother's basement.

Around the age of twenty-two he became engrossed in the study of the Zohar ( a major work of the Kabbalah that had recently been printed for the first time ) and adopted the life of a recluse.

" She became a recluse, surrounded by cats, and her house began to decay.

He became a recluse, eating all of his meals from cans and becoming obsessed with developing an immense tropical garden on his winter estate in Coconut Grove, Florida.

His father, who had been devoted to his German wife became a recluse and pious as he grew older.

She became a recluse and her servants began to take off with her possessions because she could not pay them.

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

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

# The Maze by Peter David -- A witty young Raptor, Booj, teams up with Jason and Gwen to search for the legendary Odon, a Raptor who long ago became a recluse.

During her Patchin Place years, Barnes became a notorious recluse, intensely suspicious of anyone she did not know well.

Unemployable and sensitive about his bulk, Lambert became a recluse.

He became a virtual recluse.

Chōmei would live here until he became a recluse.

Chris convinces him to stay by telling him of Lazlo's story: He was the top genius at Pacific Tech until he learned of the misuse of his theories and became a recluse, living in the steam tunnels under the dorm behind a secret passageway in the closet.

This event increased his peculiarly reserved and retired habits, and he became and continued a recluse, never being seen in the New York society to which by birth and connection he belonged.

Batten became a recluse and lived in several places around the world with her mother until her mother's death in 1965.

By his own account, he then became a " musical recluse ", staying in the studio and creating new songs but not playing live gigs for many years.

After that he became more and more of a recluse, working mostly at night.

The court case and the pressure caused by the media attention changed Mykle for the rest of his life, and he became a recluse.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

Toward the end of his fourth hairy highball, while he was moodily making wet rings on the table-top with the bottom of the glass, he became aware that he was not alone.

As bishop, he immediately adopted an ascetic lifestyle, apportioned his money to the poor, donating all of his land, making only provision for his sister Marcellina ( who later became a nun ), and committed the care of his family to his brother.

Though respected for their contributions to various academic disciplines ( respectively mathematics, linguistics, and literature ), the three men became known to the general public only by making often-controversial and disputed pronouncements on politics and public policy that would not be regarded as noteworthy if offered by a medical doctor or skilled tradesman.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

The problem became so large that some carriers required the use of a PIN before making calls.

16th century technical writers such as Biringuccio, Ercker and Agricola described a variety of cementation brass making techniques and came closer to understanding the true nature of the process noting that copper became heavier as it changed to brass and that it became more golden as additional calamine was added.

After meeting Sam Raimi in Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became very good friends and started making movies together.

After graduation, he toured with numerous improv companies and became heavily involved in regional theatre, making his professional debut in The Rose Tattoo in 1965.

Wright became a permanent member in 1959, making the " classic " Quartet's personnel complete.

Also during this time Almagro established a friendship with Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who during the time was in charge of Acla, with the intent of making a ship with the materials of the Espinosa expedition and later finish it in the " Great South Sea " as the Pacific Ocean first became known to the Spanish.

Several to-be professional game designers started their careers making Doom WADs as a hobby, among them Tim Willits, who later became the lead designer at id Software.

It was most likely at this time that judicial records became verbatim accounts of what was said in trial, making it easier to determine bias or improper conduct on the part of the governor.

Emperor Huayna Capac became very fond of Quito, making it a secondary capital of Tawantinsuyu and living out his elder years there before his death in about 1527.

Bruner ’ s analysis of developmental psychology became the core of a pedagogical movement known as constructivism, which argues that the child is an active participant in making meaning and must be engaged in the progress of education for learning to be effective.

Mountbatten making an address in Singapore, 1945. As a result of the Dieppe raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career ; his relations with Canadian veterans " remained frosty ".

She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.

In the 1960s, in line with the development of cognitive psychology and humanistic psychology, parapsychologists became increasingly interested in the cognitive components of ESP, the subjective experience involved in making ESP responses, and the role of ESP in psychological life.

The movie became a box-office hit, grossing $ 82, 522, 790 domestically, making it the 15th highest-grossing film of the year.

The double-story version became popular when printing switched to " Roman type " because the tail was effectively shorter, making it possible to put more lines on a page.

With the opening of trade between England and Japan, Japanese imports, art and styles became fashionable in London, making the time ripe for an opera set in Japan.

Sustained firing of gunpowder cartridges generated a cloud of smoke making concealment impossible until smokeless powder became available in the late 19th century.