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
“Ah, there you are, Ripple!” said the hermit crab.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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
The women were going to hike ten miles through the wilderness to see some hermit nuns who wouldn’t be hermits anymore once they got there.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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