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

No eremite of the Thebaid, or the Nitroon, is more completely immured than I find you; and the seclusion from society is quite as deleterious as the want of out-door air and sunshine.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

There the eremite Serapion in a cave had made his bed; There the faithful bands of pilgrims sought his blessing, brought him bread.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain To find what bird had piped the strain:— Seek not, and the little eremite Flies gayly forth and sings in sight.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For does not the eremite through his art of prayer and devotion, seek an ideal?

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares