Use ascetic in a sentence
Sentences ending with ascetic
- I have outgrown all this; my tastes have become exceedingly primitive,--almost, perhaps, ascetic. [6]
More example sentences with the word ascetic in them
- There was no tremor in the long, thin fingers nor at the lips--the thin, ascetic lips, as of a secret-service man--but in his eyes was a dark fire of purpose. [11]
- She had a touch of the vixen--an impetuous, loving, forceful mademoiselle, in marked contrast to the rather ascetic Francois, whose ways were more refined than his origin might seem to warrant. [11]
- He must have thought me cursed ascetic, eh, Fitz? [9]
- It was at this club that Dyck again met that tall, ascetic messenger from the Attorney-General, who had brought the message to Miles Calhoun. [11]
- Three people entered: the Seigneur, the Cure, and the Abbe Rossignol, an ascetic, severe man, with a face of intolerance and inflexibility. [11]
- Poor fellow," and the doctor's voice softened, "he'll kill himself with his ascetic notions. [4]
- This recognition from the ascetic father! [4]
- Giant in stature, so ascetic and refined was his mind, his life, that he had the intuition of a woman and, what was more, little of the bigotry of his brethren. [11]
- Take him in repose, and he looked a lank ascetic who dreamed of a happy land where flagellation was a joy and pain a panacea. [11]
- The ascetic, prudent priest, with that instinctive, long-sighted accuracy which belongs to the narrow-minded, scented difficulty. [11]
- It was ascetic in its lonely gravity now. [11]
- He had been ill, and would not stay, and seemed more severe and ascetic than ever. [4]
- Those who saw him pass would have said that there went an ascetic bent on judgment. [4]
- The face is distinguished, ascetic, the chestnut hair lighter and thinner than my own; the side whiskers are not too obtrusive, the eyes blue-grey. [9]
- It must not be supposed that the blameless youth was an ascetic in his College days. [6]
- He was an archaic little official, and apparently quite unsophisticated; yet there was hidden behind his ascetic face a quiet astuteness which would have been a valuable asset to a worldly-minded and ambitious man. [11]
- He stopped talking, and spoke in a low voice to his kavass, who presently brought a bottle of champagne--a final proof that Shelek Pasha was not an ascetic or a Turk. [11]
- Imagine a celibate and ascetic of the fifteenth century, who knew that Paradise must be gained through poverty and privation and suffering, interesting himself in the tenement-house question, in labor leagues, and the single tax. [4]
- In the Middle Ages the monks in St. Bernard's ascetic community at Clairvaux excommunicated a vineyard which a less rigid monk had planted near, so that it bore nothing. [4]
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