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

I got it, my lady, from a learned Egyptian doctor, who took it from an eremite of Arabia Felix.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Presently, the eremite pointed to where Yoomy was standing; and waved his hand upward; when Mohi informed the minstrel, that it was St. Stylites' pleasure, that he should pay him a visit.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

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 Adams, Samuel Hopkins