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
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 Arnold Bennett
For does not the eremite through his art of prayer and devotion, seek an ideal?
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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
Around the cell of some eremite like Anthony, who fixed his retreat on Mount Colzim, a number of humble imitators gathered, emulous of his austerities and of his piety.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
