How To Use anchorite In A Sentence
- Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- That didn't mean I began to live like an anchorite; far from it: I suppose I will always be true to my nature as a bon vivant. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
- As an anchorite, she had chosen a life of silence and yet she teaches her daughters to speak out with honesty and courage.
- The land of the pharaohs was transformed; the festival hall of Thutmosis III in the temple of Karnak was turned into a church, while Christian anchorites lived in some of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
- As mother Julian said, when, the poor persecuted woman, had to brick herself into a cell as an anchorite against attack by the lying establishment and listen to the screams of the innocent faithful, burning in pits all around her: Polly Loves Milly
- After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
- Rouen; the anchorite St. Féfre or Fiacre, and the missionary St. Chillen, both Irishmen, contemporaries of St. Faro (first half of the seventh century); St. Aile (Agilus), monk of Luxeuil who became in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être. A DEAD LIBERTY
- -- A zahid, or hermit, stands in need of neither diram nor dinar; when an anchorite takes either, look out for another. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
