Retiredly

He lived very retiredly, yet went often to the theatre. ❋ Various (N/A)

Charles I: lived poor and retiredly in Wales, but was once or twice more imprisoned: -- moved to Lisburn and in 1660 was made Bishop of Down and Connor, -- with Dromore, where he was buried, in addition. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Sir Hugh's intention was to live there as retiredly as possible; nevertheless, even then his family amounted to twenty persons in number. ❋ Unknown (1865)

"In the corners of the streets," namely, that they may seem to be praying retiredly, and thus earn a twofold praise, both that they pray, and that they pray in retirement. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

Insomuch that he tells us, [279] that "few sound parts are left uninfected with this plague of scepticism; [280] that it P. 67, as. this is an universal gangrene; [281] that there are but few that go the way of demonstration, and these are either wearied out, or else live retiredly, or despair of any remedy of these things." ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

Some live retiredly, spending their time in meditation, or in delivering precepts of morality to the people. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

To which he made answer saying, I marvel why such questions are asked at me, who have lived so retiredly hitherto, neither found plotting with York, France, or ❋ John Howie (1764)

A man incorporates anger by concealing it, as Diogenes told Demosthenes, who, for fear of being seen in a tavern, withdrew himself the more retiredly into it: "The more you retire backward, the farther you enter in." ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

At the ground they pause some time before they put the body into its grave, that if any there should have anything upon them to exhort the people, they may not be disappointed; and that the relations may the more retiredly and solemnly take the last leave of the body of their departed kindred, and the spectators have a sense of mortality, by the occasion then given them, to reflect upon their own latter end. ❋ William Penn (1681)

But if it were possible for us to go to Italy, thou couldst dwell secretly and retiredly in some suburb of Florence, and we should be together often -- very often! " ❋ Unknown (1846)