How To Use stylite In A Sentence
- I'm not yet some fanatic stylite, sitting on a pillar, waiting for the snap of the seventh seal, so I am somewhat familiar with the world around me. Archive 2006-09-01
- (According to legend, Simeon Stylites forbade his mother from approaching his pillar.) Open Seas
- The first film's rather subdued acting could be excused by the fact that it had had to set the scene, give the background to the few stylites and anchorites who'd never heard of the stories.
- I have been waiting up here like Simeon Stylites on his pillar, and counting every day, and conjecturing each step taken by our friend towards the coast, wishing and praying that no sickness might lay him up, no accident befall him, and no unlooked-for combinations of circumstances render his kind intentions vain or fruitless. How I Found Livingstone
- Hence, he is called Simeon Stylites, or Simeon the Pillar Saint. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
- Aladdin could always speak with extraordinary fluency, feeling, and understanding on anything that began with S, such as Simeon Stylites and Aladdin O'Brien
- If you're a Victorianist who has always wondered what St. Simeon Stylites' column looked like--or, at any rate, what's left of the column--Philobiblion has a photograph. St. Simeon Stylites
- There were the pillarists, like Simeon Stylites, who displayed his asceticism, his privations and penitences high above the market place for all eyes to see.
- The chief circumstance to which he owed this sudden wave of popularity was the adroitness with which he succeeded in putting himself at the head of the particular movement of which Daniel the Stylite was both the coryphaeus and the true inspirer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Here dwelt the Pillarists as in the Monastery of St. Simeon Stylites.
