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
For does not the eremite through his art of prayer and devotion, seek an ideal?
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
Around the cell of some eremite like Anthony, who fixed his retreat on Mount Colzim, a number of humble imitators gathered, emulous of his austerities and of his piety.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
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
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
