hermit
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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
Suddenly the lines about needing a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit came so much more alive from the endless horizon atop a watchtower.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
The hermit spoke again, quickly, and held out a package in his hand, wrapped in newspaper.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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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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