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Meanings of retired life in English

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Usage of retired life in English
1
I had not heard of your Lecture, owing to my retired life.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
2
She was glad to lead a retired life, simply and naturally economical.
Juana
3
And I don't think a retired life would suit you at all.
In the Year of Jubilee
4
Will the retired life I lead, be consonant with your tastes and wishes.
A Book for the Young
5
That young girl and her mother had been leading a very retired life.
Under Western Eyes
6
Few persons can have lived a more retired life than we have done.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
7
Notwithstanding his quiet, retired life, he was constantly outrunning the constable.
Thrift
8
He was then arrested, and had lived an exceedingly retired life ever since.
Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood
9
It was only known that she led a retired life, engaged in pious practices.
Salammbo
10
I have been living, ever since I was in Germany, a very retired life.
Vivian Grey
11
His retired life was, in fact, that of a voluptuary.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
12
With her two sisters Emily and Anne she lived a quiet and retired life.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
13
There was something so remote and distinguished about her life, her solitary, retired life.
December Love
14
A man of my years, of my retired life, knows little of such matters.
Dross
15
I am a quiet woman and live a retired life.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
16
I have led a retired life, and have no friends whom I could appeal to.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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