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

"That is our secret, fair sportsman," answered Amaranthe; "but it seems you also live retired—an eremite forlorn."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

Both have a "demon," but Sartor's is exceedingly fierce, dwelling among the tombs—Wordsworth's a mild eremite, loving the rocks and the woods.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

Ingram, we now admit that Poe was neither a drunkard, a debauchee, nor a cynical eremite.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

When she spoke of her green garden, where June had healed the hearts of many young women, she seemed like an eremite in whose consolation was absolute peace.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton