The example of these new solitaries attracted great numbers, many of whom had only an imperfect or a mistaken vocation.
At the age of eighteen he retired to a mountain near that city, where he lived for twenty-five years among many holy solitaries in the practice of all virtues.
This rigour appeared excessive to the other holy solitaries in those parts, and assembling together, they resolved to send a deputation to remonstrate with the saint for imposing a rule which it was impossible for flesh and blood to endure.
Baradatus held so high a position among the solitaries of Syria, that the Emperor Leo, wishing to know the opinion of the Eastern Church touching the council of Chalcedon, wrote to him, as well as to S.
But we are inclined to the opinion, that not all the male solitaries who lived in towns were recluses.
Among the other notices which we have of solitariesliving in towns, Lydgate mentions one in the town of Wakefield.
So that, practically, the distinction almost amounts to this--that the male solitaries were hermits, and the females recluses.
This curious incident of two solitaries living together has a parallel in the romance of "King Arthur.
Bitterly the solitaries denounce him, and resolve to select a more reliable man among the first candidates for liberty.
The solitaries charge me with messages to friends, and the Deputy Warden offers advice on behavior beyond the walls.
You have had exceptional opportunities for observation of the solitaries and the new men.
Now some one whispers through the pipes; insane solitaries bark and crow.
No officers frequent the place save at certain hours, and I shall find an opportunity to disappear into the hidden opening on the regular biweekly occasions when the solitaries are permitted to bathe.
The place is in a turmoil: the solitaries shout and rattle on the bars, the guards rush about in confusion.
The solitaries and prospective witnesses are on the qui vive, anxious lines on their faces.
The envied bakery and kitchen employees supply their friends with extra holiday tidbits, and the solitaries dance in glee at the sight of the savory dainty, the fresh brown bread generously dotted with sweet currants.
It is incredible what progress these two holy solitaries made in the paths of virtue, by perpetual prayer, contemplation, fasting, and watching.
Here Fulgentius went aboard a ship for Alexandria, being desirous, for the sake of greater perfection, to visit the deserts of Egypt, renowned for the sanctity of the solitaries who dwelt there.
He studied to imitate all the practices of penance, which all the othersolitaries of those parts exercised, though of a tender constitution himself.
At eighteen years of age he retired to a mountain near that city, called, The place of the Ark, where he lived for twenty-five years among many holy solitaries in the practice of all virtues, and was endowed with the gift of miracles.
St. Zebinus, our saint's master, surpassed all the solitaries of his time, with regard to assiduity in prayer.
The efforts of the solitaries and contemplatives had not been able to direct its course.
There were, perhaps, somesolitaries in the third century, but it was not till after the conversion of Constantine, A.
Hermitages were obviously devoted to the residence of solitaries who secluded themselves from the world and followed an ascetic life of confinement in small cells.
The mode of life of theSolitaries was simple in the highest degree.
All the Arnauld family more or less owned his influence; and it was his teaching mainly that peopled Port Royal with the Solitaries who have made it so illustrious.
The filiation between the Syrian and Egyptian solitaries with the hermits of Buddhism may be made out with some plausibility.
And we cannot doubt but that Christian solitaries continued at Alexandria the work of their Jewish predecessors, and endeavoured to make their oracles serve for the propagation of the Gospel.
The peopling of the solitudes of Syria and Egypt by solitaries was due, not to flight from persecution, but to revulsion from the luxury of the great cities, and very largely as an escape from compulsory military service.
Twice was Athanasius obliged to fly from the fury of the Arians, and to take refuge among the solitaries in their caves.
As the monastery grew rich, the solitaries crawled out of their holes into which the sun never shone, and erected their residence at the opening of the ravine.
In fact the monks were now no more solitaries than are the jackdaws in a cleft, or the bees in a hive, but unlike the jackdaws, they were under discipline, and unlike bees were without a sting.
The modern religious orders, which imitate some at least of the austerities of the old solitaries and those who in the early days of Christianity lived in communities, have a record of longevity quite equal to that of their forbears.
On a visit of three solitaries wanting instruction, one of them said, “Father, what shall I do to shun hell-fire?
The solitaries retired much edified with this humble reply.
Fulgentius, resolving to visit the deserts of Egypt, renowned for the sanctity of the solitaries who dwelt there, went on board a ship for Alexandria, but the vessel touching at Sicily, S.
In the desert he met with a pious hermit; the twosolitaries aid each other by their prayers and examples.
They all bear new standards; all show equal contempt for the world; they all form a portion separate from the rest of mankind; but they resemble neither the solitaries of the East, nor the sons of St. Bennet.
It certainly would be an error to think that so many thousands of solitaries did not exercise great influence.
The number of these solitarieswas so great that we could not credit it, if it were not vouched for by eye-witnesses worthy of the highest respect.
The life of the solitaries was the best adapted to produce this effect.
The two pious solitaries went from thence to Mount Alvernia, where they only stayed a few days.
The remaining solitaries were not dispersed, some of those who had gone returned, the confessors were not removed, the school was not closed, and Port Royal was respited.
On reading this to the Port Royal solitaries before printing it, he saw that it would not do, and turning to Pascal, who had then been a year under M.
He became, for a time, one of the solitaries of Port Royal before the close of that same year.
The solitaries who lived in the same desert drew together and adopted a common life for the practice of their austerities.
And so the solitaries applied themselves to overcoming the body by refusing to it everything that it loved.
A cross of red stone, and a few faded trees, were the only traces these solitaries had left behind.
Are these priests modern survivals of the rapt solitaries of India?
The priest looked at him, but answered nothing to his good-day (there be so many of these idle solitaries about that feign to serve God, but their heart is in the belly).
Dancing-girls whirl around; giants pursue monsters; at the entrances to the grottoes, solitaries meditate.
We shall leave that wise and prudent monarch on his way to Castile, and learn something concerning the solitaries of the lake of San Vicente.
But it is certain that he had other solitaries with him whom he alludes to in his letters.
So now the solitaries of Cassicium are back in Milan.
The two courtiers resolved to join the solitaries there and then, and they never went back to the Palace.
He must carry out his conversion to the end and live as a hermit after the manner of Antony and the solitaries of the Thebaid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solitaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
