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

The personage whom the imperial eremite delighted thus to honor was Francisco Borja, who a few years before had exchanged his dukedom of Gandia for the robe of the order of Jesus.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

"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

Man is no cave-bound eremite, But still an eager spy on Chance.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

I had unearthed my game at last and discovered my eremite in his mystic seclusion.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.