hermit
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The first were spartan nooks, just large enough to shelter one hermit from the elements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In the 2009 film “Get Low,” he was a backwoods hermit who staged his own funeral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Wildlife enthusiast Fred, who had just turned six at the time of filming in the summer and autumn of 2024, enjoyed spotting scorpions, snakes, monkeys, monitor lizards, eagles, hermit crabs, geckos and flying lemurs.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
Evidence #2: The hermit crabs need me because no one deserves to live in a filthy tank.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
There are no desert hermits in our tradition, only moms and dads tending home fires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Augustinian hermits in della Francesca’s native Borgo San Sepolcro commissioned the altarpiece in 1454, and it hung in its original church for less than 100 years.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
“I can’t imagine turning into hermits and not enjoying making music,” Debbie Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Moreover, each of these schools of thought and even the more minor traditions formed a common frame of reference within which Chinese rulers, philosophers, scribes, and even hermits expressed their own views.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Longing for solitude, the hermits have been chained to their grumpy fellows and set among others given to indiscriminate and voluble amiability.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Twelfth Night
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"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d" by Walt Whitman
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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