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Ascetics roamed the countryside, wearing rags and begging for their meals, and the Buddha became one of them.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015

Ascetics went for years without seeing or talking to another person.

From Time Magazine Archive

He read sermons on discipline, and hunted up passages in Church history that treated of the Ascetics of the second century.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

The Yogi, the Sanyasi, the Ascetics, are disputing one with   another: Kabîr says, "O brother! he who has seen that radiance of love,   he is saved."

From Songs of Kabir by Tagore, Rabindranath

Ascetics say morality is necessary to preserve that order without which chaos would come again.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von