eremite

Example Sentences

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Most scrupulous of painters, he lived like an eremite, relentlessly purged his optic sense of all illusion, all imaginative invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

For does not the eremite through his art of prayer and devotion, seek an ideal?

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

When the hermit was swept away, into his place as counsellor of the troubled stepped the witch, and to her those had recourse who had previously sought the eremite.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

He willingly bowed to "the gentle yoke of Christ"—thus ran the monkish ritual—which the life of an eremite among eremites was to impose on him.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

Given to the Monastery “Deiparae Hieracis” by the eremite monk Meletius.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose