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
I got it, my lady, from a learned Egyptian doctor, who took it from an eremite of Arabia Felix.
From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.
The personage whom the imperial eremite delighted thus to honor was Francisco Borja, who a few years before had exchanged his dukedom of Gandia for the robe of the order of Jesus.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
As for Henrietta she had long ago earned from her husband's friends the name of the "little nun," the "little eremite" because nothing could entice her from her seclusion.
From The Poor Plutocrats by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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
