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
He willingly bowed to "the gentle yoke of Christ"—thus ran the monkish ritual—which the life of an eremite among eremites was to impose on him.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
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
When the hermit was swept away, into his place as counsellor of the troubled stepped the witch, and to her those had recourse who had previously sought the eremite.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
