One retired from society for religious reasons.
Religious leaving society to lead a solitary life as a hermit.
1 I could be an anchorite ; I am, as I said-whatyou will.
2 Our bird is as solitary and joyless as the most veritable anchorite .
3 Or an anchorite who hath lived too long among rocks and trees.
4 For a time he tasted the life of the anchorite and the coenobite.
5 For fourteen centuries the ideal of this life was the anchorite or monk.
6 The apartment was small and scantily furnished- asortof anchorite cell.
7 He approached it, hoping that the hut was inhabited by some pious anchorite .
8 The head waiter would have lured an anchorite into temporary abandon.
9 For the last nine months Sir Gervaise has been an anchorite .
10 What is the matter? said the anchorite , in a calm and kindly tone.
11 He sends most of his salary, and lives like an anchorite .
12 He dressed himself like an automaton, and breakfasted like an anchorite .
13 The man was not an anchorite , nor yet a Sir Galahad.
14 As to drunkenness, and all that, we are informed he was an anchorite .
15 He lived in Paris more lonely than an anchorite in the deserts of Thebes.
16 The church itself was frequently the habitation of the anchorite .
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