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
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
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 Aubrey De Vere
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 Samuel Hopkins Adams
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
