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
What eremite dwelleth here, like St. Stylites at the top of his column?—a question which Mohi seemed all eagerness to have answered.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
There the eremite Serapion in a cave had made his bed; There the faithful bands of pilgrims sought his blessing, brought him bread.
From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke
An intention which the eremite must have anticipated; for of a sudden, something was slid over the opening; and the apparition seating itself thereupon, the twain were in darkness complete.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
I saw Peter, the eremite and coward, dragged back, a deserter, to the plague-smitten camps of Antioch.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
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