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Usage examples of anchorite.

Sociology, which the anchorite said she read more for amusement than insight, but which Cale found fascinating for the descriptions of large numbers of people living together in cities on different worlds.

But as the anchorite had said, no sign of hills or mountains as far as he could see--it seemed that this wasteland truly stretched into a strange, lost infinity.

He was certain the anchorite was right, and that out on that desert these people would find only their deaths.

For some reason he was reminded of pictures of church sanctuaries the anchorite had shown him.

The anchorite had shown Cale several alphabets, including the odd letters she had said were Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Cyrillic, as well as the Asian ideographic systems, but nothing in any of her books had even vaguely resembled these figures.

Lupe said he had not expected it, although it was foretold by an anchorite years before.

An anchorite had given it to him in Aeolis, at the beginning of his adventures.

It was a ceramic disc, an ancient coin exactly like the coin the anchorite had given him.

And he remembered that although he had lost the coin which the anchorite had given him, he had found a replacement.

I wished he had spent his gold on himself and left me poor, for it seemed to me I had need of nothing save the little I earned by my pen--I was content to live an anchorite and dine off a crust for the sake of the divine Muse I worshipped.

Art thou an anchorite, good Theos, and wouldst thou have me scourge my flesh and groan, because the gods have given me youth and vigorous manhood?

If, as has chanced to others--as chanced, for example, to Mangan-- outcast from home, health and hope, with a charred past and a bleared future, an anchorite without detachment and self-cloistered without self-sufficingness, deposed from a world which he had not abdicated, pierced with thorns which formed no crown, a poet hopeless of the bays and a martyr hopeless of the palm, a land cursed against the dews of love, an exile banned and proscribed even from the innocent arms of childhood--he were burning helpless at the stake of his unquenchable heart, then he might have been inconsolable, then might he have cast the gorge at life, then have cowered in the darkening chamber of his being, tapestried with mouldering hopes, and hearkened to the winds that swept across the illimitable wastes of death.

The only room which suggested nothing of the anchorite was the dressingroom, furnished with all the comforts and conveniences necessary to an elegant and fastidious man of the world.

Even if they were no more than mendicants and anchorites, he would join them gladly, for surely they would accept him simply for what he was.

Henceforth Ireland was to be governed jointly by Cuan of the line of Lochlan, chief poet of Meath, and Corcran Cleireach, a renowned holy man and anchorite under the supervision of the Abbot of Lismore.