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

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)

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

No eremite of the Thebaid, or the Nitroon, is more completely immured than I find you; and the seclusion from society is quite as deleterious as the want of out-door air and sunshine.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

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

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares