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
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
The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine was established in 1256 when the papacy объединed several hermit groups from central Italy into a single mendicant order.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Instead I feel something cold and round and plastic, and when I look, it’s a fishbowl with sand in it and a hermit crab, scurrying around with a shell on its back.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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
Many isolated hermits continued to dwell in northern Egypt.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In such a place lived the hermits of the early church piercing to infinity with unlittered minds.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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