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The Consideration of all which, made us without Difficulty commit to this holy Anchorite the whole of what had befallen us, and prevail'd with him to go see if he could find the Body of my Father; but his Pains prov'd ineffectual: for at his Return he told us that he had found the tragick
Exilius 2008
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Outlaw, or some holy Anchorite, or Priest of Pan or
Exilius 2008
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Yet some again Anterotes, cannot endure the sight of a woman, abhor the sex, as that same melancholy [2517] duke of Muscovy, that was instantly sick, if he came but in sight of them; and that [2518] Anchorite, that fell into a cold palsy, when a woman was brought before him.
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Anchorite; born 354, at Rome; died 450, at Troe, in Egypt.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Few of them ever heard the story of Joseph the Anchorite, and how he sought flesh within its portals; those who have will not repeat it.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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But the Anchorite having asked him, By what Advice he did it?
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Being full of terror, he went into a Desait, and there imparted the way he had taken, and his Abstinence to a holy Anchorite, who, by the favour of Heaven, freed him from that Diabolical Delusion.
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Anchorite, distinction between the old and the new, i.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880
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Thebaid Anchorite, or Mahomet in his Arabian cave.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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Anchorite and Virgin-martyr, the Confessor and the Doctor, the Angelic
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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