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Note: [22.17] in boyhood, and someway into manhood, both devil-may-care bloods, and yet, in the end, the wonders of the world for anchoritish self-command.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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Loyola; in boyhood, and someway into manhood, both devil-may-care bloods, and yet, in the end, the wonders of the world for anchoritish self-command.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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His manner upon such occasions was, in its degree, not unlike that which might be supposed to have been his imperial countryman's, Charles V., just previous to the anchoritish retirement of that monarch from the throne.
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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Him and his noiseless parsonage, the pensive abode for sixty years of religious revery and anchoritish self-denial, I have described farther on.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
Drogulus commented on the word anchoritish
adj. Hermitlike
September 7, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word anchoritish
anchoritic
September 9, 2012