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
"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
As for endeavoring to force his way out, it was alarming to think of; for aught he knew, the eremite, availing himself of the gloom, might be bristling all over with javelin points.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Herbert, an eremite, beseeching him that the two may die the same day, he prays accordingly, and they die the same hour.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
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