eremite
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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
Knowledge is no longer a lonely eremite, affording a chance and captivating hospitality to some wandering pilgrim; knowledge is now found in the market-place, a citizen, and a leader of citizens.
From Canada and the States by E. W. (Edward William) Watkin
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
But if we fail to take Barlaam, I know of an eremite, Nachor by name, in every way like unto him: it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus
What eremite dwelleth here, like St. Stylites at the top of his column?—a question which Mohi seemed all eagerness to have answered.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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