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

I had unearthed my game at last and discovered my eremite in his mystic seclusion.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

I think I'd rather hold him in my mind as he is here: a happy eremite; no, a restrained pagan.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares