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

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

Ingram, we now admit that Poe was neither a drunkard, a debauchee, nor a cynical eremite.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

What eremite dwelleth here, like St. Stylites at the top of his column?—a question which Mohi seemed all eagerness to have answered.

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

The personage whom the imperial eremite delighted thus to honor was Francisco Borja, who a few years before had exchanged his dukedom of Gandia for the robe of the order of Jesus.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various