anchored

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The slow, solemn enunciation of each word by a choir of hoary anchorets rolled in majestic cadence through the precipices of the mountains, and died away in the distant ravines in echoes of heavenly harmony.

From Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius by O'Reilly, A. J. (Augustine J.)

This was held in the isle of Cocket, then filled with holy anchorets.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

Still conducted by the anchorets, they were taken to pass the night in a large house, where they had good entertainment, but saw only the female slaves who waited upon them.

From Veranilda by Gissing, George

He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

In the sixth, he shows that death is desirable to a Christian, who, by a penitential life, in imitation of the holy anchorets, is dead to the world and himself.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban