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

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

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

But if we fail to take Barlaam, I know of an eremite, Nachor by name, in every way like unto him: it is impossible to distinguish the one from the other.

From Barlaam and Ioasaph by John of Damascus, Saint

I got it, my lady, from a learned Egyptian doctor, who took it from an eremite of Arabia Felix.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.