He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Rapunzel]
A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of SS Declan and Mochuda]
But in the second spring of my hermitical life a report was circulated that the Countess, with her husband, was coming to spend the summer on her estate. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian] Reference
Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is -- the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
In his "Society and Solitude" Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
In his “Society and Solitude” Emerson has drawn a picture of Hawthorne as the lover of a hermitical life; a picture only representing that side of his character, and developed after Emerson's fashion to an artistic extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne]
A resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore] Reference
Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is ” the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years]
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