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
Both have a "demon," but Sartor's is exceedingly fierce, dwelling among the tombs—Wordsworth's a mild eremite, loving the rocks and the woods.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
But the many questionable pages on this curious subject of the eremite, what are we to do with them?
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
When she spoke of her green garden, where June had healed the hearts of many young women, she seemed like an eremite in whose consolation was absolute peace.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
Presently, the eremite pointed to where Yoomy was standing; and waved his hand upward; when Mohi informed the minstrel, that it was St. Stylites' pleasure, that he should pay him a visit.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
