eremite
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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
When the hermit was swept away, into his place as counsellor of the troubled stepped the witch, and to her those had recourse who had previously sought the eremite.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Only an Olive Schreiner could do full justice to your failure, you poor nun, you futile eremite, you absolute and hopeless impasse.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He had been one of the demons who tempted St. Anthony, and retailed anecdotes of that eremite which Euschemon had never heard mentioned in Paradise.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
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
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