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
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
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 De Vere, Aubrey
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
Had he been an eremite of the old sort, the last place in which robbers would have expected to find plunder would be his cell.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
