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
As for endeavoring to force his way out, it was alarming to think of; for aught he knew, the eremite, availing himself of the gloom, might be bristling all over with javelin points.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain To find what bird had piped the strain:— Seek not, and the little eremite Flies gayly forth and sings in sight.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think I'd rather hold him in my mind as he is here: a happy eremite; no, a restrained pagan.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
No eremite of the Thebaid, or the Nitroon, is more completely immured than I find you; and the seclusion from society is quite as deleterious as the want of out-door air and sunshine.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
