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

When she spoke of her green garden, where June had healed the hearts of many young women, she seemed like an eremite in whose consolation was absolute peace.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

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 Watkin, E. W. (Edward William)

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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

As for Henrietta she had long ago earned from her husband's friends the name of the "little nun," the "little eremite" because nothing could entice her from her seclusion.

From The Poor Plutocrats by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)