How To Use Stylite In A Sentence
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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.
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(According to legend, Simeon Stylites forbade his mother from approaching his pillar.)
Open Seas
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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.
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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
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Hence, he is called Simeon Stylites, or Simeon the Pillar Saint.
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
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Aladdin could always speak with extraordinary fluency, feeling, and understanding on anything that began with S, such as Simeon Stylites and
Aladdin O'Brien
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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
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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.
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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
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Here dwelt the Pillarists as in the Monastery of St. Simeon Stylites.
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But within ten months he was permitted to set out for the Holy Land, with the blessing of a nearby stylite.
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There, Simeon Stylites now had patience certainly, great patience; for thirty years he stood on a pillar!
A Sportsman's Sketches
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My desire to go and hear Berma received a fresh stimulus which enabled me to await the coming of the matinée with impatience and with joy; having gone to take up, in front of the column on which the playbills were, my daily station, as excruciating, of late, as that of a stylite saint, I had seen there, still moist and wrinkled, the complete bill of
Within a Budding Grove
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Simeon, like many of the stylites, was completely orthodox in his theology.
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Old Cotta, who was inspecting the canals and the navigation of the Nile, had many times expressed a desire to see the stylite and the new city, to which the name of Stylopolis had been given.
Thais
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It, indeed, sent the stylite to his pillar, the hermit to the wilderness, the ascetic to the scourge and hair-cloth shirt; but it also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the beggar to the castle-hearth, and the workman to the building of the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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He's said to be as rich as Croesus and as reclusive as a stylite, and that's all anyone knows of him.
Red dust
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To choose a stone perch in center of the sea where you will stay, a stylite, unaffected
To Be Undone
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There was a time a "stylite" was a saint who lived atop a pillar or a post in some forsaken desert.
Knocking From Inside
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Soon the report of this extraordinary existence spread from village to village, and the labourers of the valley came on Sundays, with their wives and children, to look at the stylite.
Thais
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Known as a stylite, or one who lives on a pillar, he virtually impaled himself physically for a lifetime but thereby gained spiritual eternity.
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Watching him, I can't help but think of the stylites, fanatical Christian monks of the Middle Ages who would plant themselves atop columns in the desert and stay there for weeks and months.
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At the end of the rite, however, the patriarch ascended to give Holy Communion to the stylite and to receive it from him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Simeon Stylites kitteh comtenplayts de wurld etsettra updaeted vershun.
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In the fourth century, another hermit, Simeon Stylites, sat atop a pillar day and night for 36 years, attracting crowds of sightseers and acolytes.
Open Seas
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Chapter began with a reading about Simeon Stylites, the saint whose feast day it was.
The Pillars of the Earth
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It represents St. Simeon the stylite atop his pillar with details of his bare ribs and naked body showing.
