Sentence example with the word 'hermit'

hermit

abbacomes, beadsman, character, desert fathers, grand prior, lay abbot, monastic, original, prior, religious, stay-at-home

Definition n. one retired from society for religious reasons

Last update: July 17, 2015


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Catching hermit crabs, watching bright red sticky beadlet anemones catch a passing shrimp, watching the slippery butterfish vanish beneath a rock.   [noun]

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Tom pot blennies, jewel anemones, hermit crabs, spider crabs galore.   [noun]

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The Gaul laughed loud, seized the hermit's garment, and went with the lamp into the dark room behind the kitchen, in which vessels and utensils of various sorts were kept.   [noun]

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A hermit wrestled hand to hand with a young philosopher who, only yesterday had delivered his first lecture on the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus to an interested audience.   [noun]

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The Paulus of my story must not be confounded with the "first hermit," Paulus of Thebes, whom Weingarten has with good reason struck out of the category of historical personages.   [noun]

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The sun, as it rose higher and higher, blazed down upon the rocks, which began to radiate their heat, and the hermit's dwelling was suffocatingly hot.   [noun]

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Gorgias had erected it, and whoever wished to visit the hermit was forced to go by sea and request admittance, which was granted to few.   [noun]

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Dion and Barine talked of their hermit life, Gorgias of the Queen and the tomb, which was at the same time a treasure chamber.   [noun]

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