anchorite's

Not that Vance Corliss was anybody's fool, nor that his had been an anchorite's existence; but that his upbringing, rather, had given his life a certain puritanical bent.

CHAPTER 7 2010

The porous bear the anchorite's vial atop columns of luminous insolvency.

God's Vial 2010

You may find me in the piazzas of Rome, on a gondola in Venice, in a cathedral crypt in Rouen, near a fortress in Goa, at an anchorite's cave in Thibet, a mission in California, rampant upon the Great Wall in Kitai or idle at home in Bodega.

Émilie, marquise du Châtelet Young Geoffrion 2009

And if [Ted] hadn't signed up for Wulfila, he would never have found himself, on the third day of his first term at university, sitting buttock-to-buttock on a chintz sofa in North Oxford with a diminutive polyglot Hungarian spitfire called Ilse … he will hang up his musket for her any day, just as long as her impatient little heels keep hammering his rump on the coconut matting of her anchorite's horse trailer …

Tradecraft 2005

And if [Ted] hadn't signed up for Wulfila, he would never have found himself, on the third day of his first term at university, sitting buttock-to-buttock on a chintz sofa in North Oxford with a diminutive polyglot Hungarian spitfire called Ilse … he will hang up his musket for her any day, just as long as her impatient little heels keep hammering his rump on the coconut matting of her anchorite's horse trailer …

Tradecraft 2005

Versailles, on the outskirts of the wood near the Saint Germain's road: viewed from without it seemed a true hermitage, worthy in all points of an anchorite's abode; but within it was a dwelling more suited to some old _roué_ of the Regency.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

This array gave a much more correct idea of the resources of the establishment and formed a menu like an anchorite's repast, and even this it was difficult for the kitchen's resources to maintain.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Trowle exclaims that he will forsake the shepherd's craft and will betake himself to an anchorite's hard by, in prayers to "wache and wake."

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

It calls out an appreciative letter from d'Andilly, who, in his anchorite's cell, continues to follow the sayings and doings of his friends in the little salon at Port Royal.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

This powerful Sahadeva vanquished all the kings in the south; those lords of men who had gathered on the coast of the sea, -- look at him now in an anchorite's dress.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli