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

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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Only an Olive Schreiner could do full justice to your failure, you poor nun, you futile eremite, you absolute and hopeless impasse.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Bennett, Arnold

"That is our secret, fair sportsman," answered Amaranthe; "but it seems you also live retired—an eremite forlorn."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various