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
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
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
That is the way it usually goes in stories: the young man has to prove his dedication to the old hermit in the woods before he’s taken under his wing.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
Many isolated hermits continued to dwell in northern Egypt.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Nature lovers aren’t all hermits, hermits aren’t necessarily survivalists, and survivalists don’t have to be terrorists, and they certainly aren’t all intellectuals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
And the rain made hermits of us all.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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