How To Use Anchorite In A Sentence
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We do not need roads filled with NBC - 2 vehicles containing anchorites powdering their noses in rear view mirrors.
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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
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As an anchorite, she had chosen a life of silence and yet she teaches her daughters to speak out with honesty and courage.
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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.
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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
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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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
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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-- 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
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Granada, from which its austere anchorites had been driven by the barbarous decree of exclaustration (1835), was acquired and restored by the Jesuits, who have established in it their novitiate for New
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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“The anchorite whom I would now visit,” said the warlike pilgrim, “is, I have heard, no priest; but were he of that anointed and sacred order, I would prove with my good lance, against paynim and infidel —”
The Talisman
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The smell of raisin pies is something to tempt an anchorite; and the Story Girl was exceedingly fond of them.
The Story Girl
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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’).
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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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
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After all, she wasn't an anchorite - or was it an eremite - with her thoughts as her raison d'être.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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In this context, the work of Julian of Norwich, an English anchorite of the fourteenth century, is a particularly refreshing discovery.
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The first film's rather subdued acting could be excused by the fact that it had had to set the scene, give the background to the few stylites and anchorites who'd never heard of the stories.
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‘The anchorite is not offended primarily by the world,’ Ramfos insists; ‘he is offended by futility.’
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Anchorites and anchoresses lived the religious life in the solitude of an ‘anchorage’, usually a small hut or ‘cell’ built against a church.
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Together with the others, it succeeded to a period of eremitism of solitary anchorites whose dwellings honeycombed the warm slopes that confront the
Old Calabria
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The church has an anchorage or cell where a succession of anchorites (hermits) lived from 1383 until the reign of Henry VIII.
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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