Anchoret
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historical examples
the ground floor served as drawing-room; above it was the anch-r-t’s bedroom; and the top story was used as a study.
balzac frederick lawton
he was at this time evidently leading the life of an anch-r-t.
st. bernard of clairvaux’s life of st. malachy of armagh h. j. lawlor
no anch-r-t, indeed, could claim for himself much more apathy towards all such allurements than he did at that period.
life of lord byron, vol. i. (of vi.) thomas moore
his plump cheeks, no less than his well-filled waistcoat, showed that the rev. mr. rimmon was no anch-r-t.
gordon keith thomas nelson page
ammona lived with three thousand brethren in such silence as though he was an anch-r-t.
talkers john bate
for it stood on the transcantine side, an anch-r-t in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the university.
cambridge and its story charles william stubbs
but at monkbarns, no anch-r-t could have made a more simple and scanty meal.
the antiquary, complete sir walter scott
-rs-nius was a n-ble roman who, at the end of the fourth century, retired to egypt to live the life of an anch-r-t in the desert.
the vision and creed of piers ploughman, volume ii of ii william langland
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