Applying the term anchorite to me is perhaps a juster comparison than you think. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
'anchorite' passed his lonely existence in the spot in question. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
He is not, however, an anchorite, or hard upon youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
“It needs not,” answered the anchorite, in a whisper. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
He was as grave and taciturn as some cave-keeping anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
When out of the night an anchorite schlepped up to the temple door. From Wordnik.com. [The Shooting of Dan's Guru] Reference
Your eternal quotations would destroy the patience of an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
He dressed himself like an automaton, and breakfasted like an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
But she knew by the look of him that his nature was anchorite and mystic. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
What can an immured anchorite know of the vast mysteries of the wind-borne spirits?. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
When the song was ended, the anchorite emphatically declared it a good one, and well sung. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
I have a little brass bed in a dressing-room, and a little hair mattress like an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
But there is something of the anchorite in your life just the same, and if envy your situation. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
O hero, as thou art leading the life of an anchorite, this slaughter without cause is unlike thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Others insist that this dismal hole was the habitation of a hermit or anchorite, of the name of Pool. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829] Reference
Had he toiled, and hoped, and prayed, and lived the life of an anchorite these five years only for this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Much that had passed betwixt himself and the hermit, besides what he had observed between the anchorite and. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
At times, there was a heavenly smile upon her countenance, which would have warmed the heart of an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
The Awakened call patience the highest penance, long-suffering the highest Nirvana; for he is not an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [The Dhammapada] Reference
The cavern was in the shape of a cross, and had evidently been the abode of some anchorite of a time long past. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
English king to a cell near St. John's-under-the-Castle, also in Lewes, and establishes him there as an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Some youthful anchorite, perhaps, was he, and this the fair temptation that had assailed his fancy; such a vision as. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
That waltz -- listen to it "-- lifting up an eager finger --" would it not wake an anchorite from his ascetic dreams?. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
A zahid, or hermit, stands in need of neither diram nor dinar; when an anchorite takes either, look out for another. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
When we came to H---, several years ago, he led the life of an anchorite, along with an old housekeeper, in ---- Street. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
Give money to the learned man, that he may teach others; and give nothing to the hermit, that he may remain an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
At about the same time we find Mary Lamb recording that her genial brother had suddenly taken to living like an anchorite. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Prior Robert said superciliously into the abbot's ear: 'It is not unknown for an anchorite to give shelter and employment to a simpleton. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
A table and two chairs showed that they must be the handiwork of the anchorite, being different in their form from Oriental accommodations. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
As she was gifted with great beauty, an object of desire even with an anchorite, and of graceful smiles, the wise sage, as soon as he beheld her, desired to have her. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Kerim Khan, unlike his countryman, the Mirza, religiously abstained throughout from the forbidden dainties of the Franks, and sat like an anchorite at the board of plenty. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
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