In England the chief orders of friars were distinguished by the colour of their habit: thus the Franciscans or Minors were the Grey Friars; the Dominicans or Preachers were the Black Friars (from their black mantle over a white habit), and the Carmelites were the White Friars (from their white mantle over a brown habit): these, together with the Austin Friars or Hermits, formed the four great mendicant orders - Chaucer's "alle the ordres foure." [Please select]
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These caves Cuthbert knew had formerly been the abode of hermits. [Please select]
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In spite of their boring-implements, the hermits die in my cases for lack of skill. [Please select]
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It's something like the kind of impulse that made the hermits and ascetics submit to scourging. [Please select]
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They have a little the air of hermits--of artistic anchorites, one may say. [Please select]
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We have lived like hermits, showing ourselves only often enough to keep alive the Maternus legend. [Please select]
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"But I thought hermits always lived in caves," demurred Pepper. [Please select]
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These were called hermits, and the first and most noted of them was St. [Please select]
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The Thebaid, or hilly country above Thebes in Egypt, was full of these hermits. [Please select]
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None ever interfere with me, or with the two or three other hermits, the remains of what was once almost an army, who now alone survive. [Please select]
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Antony, an Egyptian ascetic, who by his example and influence gave a tremendous impulse to the strange enthusiasm, is called the "father of the hermits." [Please select]
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