alone vs retired

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

retired

adj
  • Secluded from society (of a lifestyle, activity etc.); private, quiet. 

  • Of a place: far from civilisation, not able to be easily seen or accessed; secluded. 

  • Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. 

  • No longer in use or production. 

How often have the words alone and retired occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )