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

Herbert, an eremite, beseeching him that the two may die the same day, he prays accordingly, and they die the same hour.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Presently, the eremite pointed to where Yoomy was standing; and waved his hand upward; when Mohi informed the minstrel, that it was St. Stylites' pleasure, that he should pay him a visit.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

But the many questionable pages on this curious subject of the eremite, what are we to do with them?

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

The seclusion was individual—the man was an eremite.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris