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

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

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)

Stylitisms, eremite fanaticisms and fakeerisms; spasmodic agonistic posture-makings, and narrow, cramped, morbid, if forever noble wrestlings: all this is not a thing desirable to me.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

He willingly bowed to "the gentle yoke of Christ"—thus ran the monkish ritual—which the life of an eremite among eremites was to impose on him.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)