“Dumb were its walls as when they refused to return the murmured orisons of the anchorite.”

“In this context, the work of Julian of Norwich, an English anchorite of the fourteenth century, is a particularly refreshing discovery.”

“As an anchorite, she had chosen a life of silence and yet she teaches her daughters to speak out with honesty and courage.”

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

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

“His plump cheeks, no less than his well-filled waistcoat, showed that the Rev. Mr. Rimmon was no anchoret.”

“Often individual anchorites were attached to a cenobium, where they might return for communal worship.”

“As early as the eighth century, culdee anchorites were accustomed to retire to Iceland from Scotland.”

“Soon there were great numbers of desert anchorites, living solitary lives of devotion to God and coming together for weekly prayer services.”