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

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

He had been one of the demons who tempted St. Anthony, and retailed anecdotes of that eremite which Euschemon had never heard mentioned in Paradise.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard

Man is no cave-bound eremite, But still an eager spy on Chance.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

Stylitisms, eremite fanaticisms and fakeerisms; spasmodic agonistic posture-makings, and narrow, cramped, morbid, if forever noble wrestlings: all this is not a thing desirable to me.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas