hermitical

Example Sentences

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A somewhat shy and hermitical being we take him to be, and more a student of his own heart than of men.

From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell

He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life. 

From Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore by Anonymous

He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life.

From The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore by Power, P. (Patrick)

A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation.

From Thoroughbreds by Fraser, William Alexander

She, too, had no doubt been terrified into that hermitical retirement—among the señoritas now universal.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne