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
For does not the eremite through his art of prayer and devotion, seek an ideal?
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
As for Henrietta she had long ago earned from her husband's friends the name of the "little nun," the "little eremite" because nothing could entice her from her seclusion.
From The Poor Plutocrats by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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
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 Richard Garnett
