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

Oft didst thou thread the woods in vain To find what bird had piped the strain:— Seek not, and the little eremite Flies gayly forth and sings in sight.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man is no cave-bound eremite, But still an eager spy on Chance.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

Friar Jordan, an Augustinian eremite, held a commission as inquisitor in both sections of Saxony.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles