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
The order of scholars has ceased to be mendicant, vagabond, and eremite.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
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
Knowledge is no longer a lonely eremite, affording a chance and captivating hospitality to some wandering pilgrim; knowledge is now found in the market-place, a citizen, and a leader of citizens.
From Canada and the States by E. W. (Edward William) Watkin
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
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