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The shape and expression of the many faces were various--ascetic, worldly, pale, red, round, thin, fat, oval; each one revealed the character of its owner.— The Bishop's Secret
He should have left marriage to those who were capable of nothing else; this would not have meant that he turn ascetic, for the ascetic is a voluptuary in disguise.— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
But what was in the author's mind was probably that all these vices and moral virtues are enumerated as such for all; and he slips in mental concentration as a virtue for the ascetic, meaning to include all the virtues he knows A few further illustrations from that special code which has won for itself a preeminent name, 'the law-book of Manu,'[26] will give in epitome the popular religion as taught to the masses; withal even better than this is taught in the S[=u]tras.— The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
In the last years of his short life he sank into a torpor of superstition--ascetic, self-mortified, and rapt in a strange exaltation, like a medieval monk.— Landmarks in French Literature

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