anchoret

No anchoret, indeed, could claim for himself much more apathy towards all such allurements than he did at that period.

The ground floor served as drawing-room; above it was the anchoret's bedroom; and the top story was used as a study.

He was at this time evidently leading the life of an anchoret.

But at Monkbarns, no anchoret could have made a more simple and scanty meal.

For it stood on the transcantine side, an anchoret in itself, severed by the river from the rest of the University.