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Sentence Examples While both your and your girlfriend's hearts were in the right place, please don't release your hermit crab in the wild. Then a hermit crab marched past, holding aloft a pale anemone in its pincers as if to turn it into some sort of hat. Track size varies depending on the size of the terrestrial hermit crab making the trace. They chased one to the hermitage of Eskdaleside, near Whitby, where the hermit protected the exhausted boar and refused to hand it over. People left their hearths and home to live the life of a recluse and a hermit in deserts and mountains. The Michelin Man was created in 1898 by a crazed German hermit named Berthold Heinz-Dieter who lived in a junkyard. Though most of the time I enjoyed being a hermit, school dances were the one social thing I loved to go to. Amazingly, the hermit crab's body is asymmetrically twisted so that it fits snugly into the shape of the shell. He is no longer the hermit of Andretta, the village in the Himalayan foothills to which he has often retreated, to reflect, write and paint. One night his troops encounter an old Asiatic hermit named Dersu Uzala, who lives in the wilderness, surviving by hunting and selling furs. The Bishop of Middlesborough received and consecrated her as a hermit in 1994 and she took her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. One minute he's a hermit and the next he's a mentally challenged lunatic with sudden outbursts. The hermit thrush and northern cardinal were observed eating pondberry fruits. At this point the robins just simply disappeared, as did the cedar waxwing, the hermit thrush, and the fox sparrow. Since, according to the legend, she retired as a hermit, her example could be employed to sing the praises of the contemplative life. Secular idleness would have little meaning in solitude, and the religious contemplation of the hermit or monk is not in question here. The other hermit thrush, Catharus guttatus, was a dispersal agent for the plants. Even the hermit was expected to supply the needs of the sick and the destitute through the money he earned from his own handicraft. In mid-November we had two hermit thrushes using our bird bath and even coming to the suet. The heroine, Portia, about to arrive home, is reported to be kneeling at holy crosses in the company of a hermit. Show More Sentences For several years, Benedict lived as a hermit in a cave at Subiaco, where the Roman Emperor Nero had had a villa centuries earlier. A blogroll shows that you are part of a community rather than a solitary hermit separating yourself from the unwashed masses. In such shady areas I commonly see hermit thrush and robins hunting for worms and insects. Not much further down the trail, however, a hermit thrush was spotted on the trail. Swimming onto the heavy granite sand, you will find dragonets, plaice and wandering hermit crabs. She was tagged as a social hermit and a geek during her stay in Lanesville and she had lived with that. The hermit thrush is among the migratory birds being studied for energy expenditure during rest. On the left side next to the staircase, there is a corridor which leads to the refectory, the kitchen and six hermit cells. The new display will also include tropical hermit crabs, crawfish, horseshoe crabs, and other species. Shining our torches onto the sand reveals thousands of hermit crabs scuttling from the light. How often I have longed to hear the hermit thrush, wood thrush and veery blend their ethereal voices together again! When I got angry, when I raised my voice at all, Elizabeth scuttled away like a hermit crab from the hungry mariner. Glaciers had carved it out of living rock, and the hermit was a mere insect, trying to blend in with the colors of Himalayan permanence. Common lobsters, edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, shore crabs and hermit crabs were common. The torch picked out a tiny red hermit crab as it climbed laboriously across the top of a sponge. He times it carefully, and quickly turns the tables on the hermit, pressing his attack and his advantage. The planula larva settles on a hermit crab shell and metamorphoses into a primary polyp. It delights and illuminates like the words of a pillarist hermit depositing wisdom from a secluded scenic mountaintop. Now there is evidence that at least one type of hermit crab has found another solution. As a lad, I wandered onto a patch of land with a tarpaper shack occupied by, as I learned later, a hermit. Show More Sentences It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus. This substandard home allowed me to photograph the strange, unarmoured rear of the hermit crab that is rarely seen. In 1881, a thunderstorm in Worcester brought down tons of periwinkles and hermit crabs. She had paid for the tiny creature, the cage, the bedding, the hermit hut, and the food. One of the more notable recent invaders is the large coconut crab, a hermit crab restricted to islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The child should not be looking at the mother as a sexless hermit, because that's not a good model either. Back in the sleep room, I was just wondering how easy it would be to get a hermit crab back through customs, when I realised I had been out cold. Several times throughout the night I wished I could become a hermit, before realizing how I would miss human contact. According to tradition, Mary Magdalen spent the thirty years as a hermit in the desert devoted to penitential contemplation. She lives as a hermit in a cottage outside the village where she carries out her work as an iconographer. There are also lemon bars, raspberry-almond bars, brownies, blondies, hermit bars, cupcakes and several varieties of rather flat scones. The knight plays along, and gulps up much of the venison pastry the hermit brought out. The purple-clawed land hermit crab is the only terrestrial hermit known from the tropical western Atlantic region. A less common example of symbiosis occurs when a hermit crab lives on another species. I became a virtual hermit, only venturing outside to go the supermarket, and even then I'd wear a hat and sunglasses. Propose that the classroom pet be a hermit crab, turtle, lizard, snake, or fish. Bishop also described the attachment of a small oyster on the claw of the Lower Cretaceous hermit crab, Pagurus Fabricius. In addition to this anemone hermit crab, scientists found several potentially new species of corals, sea stars, snails, and clams. From the beginning, Linux has been something of a hermit crab operating system, because it tends to inhabit boxes designed first for other operating systems. Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands. Show More Sentences Monongahela includes Cranberry Glades, where you'll find Swainson's and hermit thrushes, mourning warbler, northern waterthrush, and swamp sparrow. If you thought qualifications for being a hermit were a tendency toward solitude and dislike of civilization, think again. If you're ready to live like a hermit for a while, you'll probably not be unlucky enough to catch the dread disease before it becomes widely known. Both spiney lobsters and hermit crabs have been observed attacking gastropods in this fashion and both produce the distinctive notched gastropod remains. Someone called him a hermit crab lurking in the halls of the United Nations. The hermit Kingdom has opened its embassy doors for an exhibit highlighting the work of six artists from its state-run studio. Because of this diversity of tree species, migratory songbirds such as scarlet tanagers, hermit thrushes, and chestnut-sided warblers return to nest there each spring. Prior to Dubacher, Brother johannes Leutenegger spent 25 years as the Verena hermit. Fertilized eggs develop into crawling planula larvae which settle on hermit crab-occupied shells, and subsequently metamorphose into primary polyps. Also, hermit crabs commonly kept as pets molt and shed their exoskeleton. There is one exception to this behaviour, and that is the specialised hermit crab Parugrita, which uses a crack in the reef or a discarded tubeworm cast as a home. It's all going swimmingly well, until a strange old hermit blunders in to their lives and infects one of them with a hideous bug that literally eats you alive. Discover the hermit thrush in shady maple and hemlock groves, bobolinks in golden hay fields, northern water thrush in swamplands, and hawks migrating in autumn. Happiness is solitude, thinks the hermit who lives alone on his island. The wood and hermit thrushes and their cousin the veery have taken a severe hit from the cowbirds, so that they are on the brink of becoming endangered species. White-spotted moray eels flashed their teeth, a lone hermit crab barrelled along and three young spiny lobsters displayed themselves daringly on a ledge. Now, after the most recent hermit decided to step down due to health problems, the nearby town in seeking a replacement. Ferguson knows that even if he decides to become a hermit on some oil platform in the North Sea for the rest of his life, his place in footballing history is secure. Towards the end of his life, he became a hermit and lived among holy men. His ascetic aspirations did not make him wish to be a hermit. Show More Sentences And he was a hermit, a recluse or what have you, or something like it. The Grinch is a yellowish green hermit who lives on the top of Mount Crumpet with his erstwhile companion Max, a dog whose loyalty knows no bounds. They would sneak along the creek to where it just passed the back of the farmhouse belonging to Jonathan Lawson, an uppity old hermit who insisted he owned the creek. And just as a mollusk shell once vacated may be taken over by a hermit crab, the external forms of our lives will be filled by others after we are gone. A close look at some of these splashes can recall, for instance, an amoeba seen under a microscope or the fossilized remains of a fish, a hermit crab or a snake. The fossil trackway undoubtedly was produced by a terrestrial hermit crab, like those that are common in beach and dune environments in the Bahamas today. Like the pine warbler, the hermit thrush is an uncommon nesting bird for southwestern Connecticut, keeping to cool, coniferous woods resembling territory farther north. The hermit thrushes start singing again now for some reason. Some have argued that the wood thrush's close relative, the hermit thrush, is the better singer, but the hermit thrush's ethereal song strikes me as too heavenly. Towards the end of his time in racing Stewart also saw the first stirrings of one of the great playboys, James Hunt, who made Button look like a hermit. The seven monolithic churches were excavated out of the ground and are surrounded by trenches and courtyards with graves and hermit cells cut into the inner cliff face. Wildlife typically found W n Swansea Bay's rock pools includes common hermit crabs, common starfish and grey sea slugs. Most sea anemones are anchored to one spot, but some species ride around on the backs of hermit crabs and snails to switch locations. He left Rajagaha and practised under two hermit teachers of yogic meditation. So Olaf went to see the hermit, now convinced he was a real fortune teller. He can be seen as a wise hermit, a good leader and gentleman, embodying common sense. The original site was founded by an Irish hermit who gathered a following from the local community. He is thought to have made a pilgrimage to Rome before emigrating to Brittany, where he took on the life of a hermit. By using shells already in use by hermit crabs, it was known that the shells were habitable rather than blocked by epibiont growth or detritus. Some birds, such as hermit thrushes, subsist on wild fruit like sumac and poison ivy. Show More Sentences St Piran's Crab, Clibanarius erythropus a small hermit crab found on the south Cornwall coast is named in honour of the hermit saint. Kim Jong-un's hermit kingdom has just launched a new tourism website to entice visitors from the West. It was once known as a hermit kingdom as South Korea was isolated from the rest of the world. Unlike Wilfrid, his style of life was austere, and when he was able to he lived the life of a hermit, though still receiving many visitors. Despite the Agreed Framework signed in 1994 meant to prevent North Korea's nuclear breakout, today the hermit kingdom is a nuclear power. Later legends claimed that Harold did not die at Hastings, but escaped and became a hermit at Chester. We also saw small creatures such as nudibranch, leaf fish and hermit crabs. In one hand he carried an oyster toadfish in a mason jar, and in the other a hermit crab in a drinking glass. We didn't expect to find things like hermit crabs, starfish, or sea squirts. Bede relates that the bishops particularly consulted a hermit on how to respond. What's more, hermit crabs can remember past pain and will even abandon the shells they occupy to avoid a recurrence of it, the researchers said. Accordingly, early writers argued a construct that gave legitimacy to the life-long student, hermit, and renouncer. Traditional examples of carcinisation in the Anomura are most celebrated among hermit crabs, but certainly are not limited to this group. Bluebirds, hermit thrushes, and American robins are often found in grape arbors, sumac patches, or other places where wild fruits are located. Sir David Attenborough looks at African wild dogs in Zambia, chimps in the Sahara and tiny tropical hermit crabs searching for shells. However, in terms of weight, eelpouts, Tanner crab, crangonid shrimp, hermit crab, and polychaetes were the most important prey of Pacific cod. But I doubt even the most devoted Zephead is pining to relive the days when Jimmy Page dressed up like a hermit with dandruff. Oh, thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. They have hooted at the devils, shouted with laughter over the stupidities and shrewdities of the hermit. The former, the pupil and friend of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, lived as a hermit on an island in Derwentwater, now named after him. Show More Sentences Apparently, he said, only the smallest hermit crabs take advantage of new shells, since only the small hermit crabs can fit inside the unremodeled shells. But what professors at Queens University in Belfast have discovered is that the hermit crab is a bit of a thinker underneath that shellated exterior. Additionally, hermit crabs have been known to use pieces of beach litter as a shell when they cannot find an actual seashell of the size they need. Sierra hermit thrush, water ouzel, and Townsend's solitaire. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Taylor said, watching a hermit crab skitter across the bottom of a pool. The pine barrens are a site lonely enough to suit any hermit. Meanwhile, the hermit thrush will pump its tail, and the tiny, winter wren with its comical, short, cocked tail, will sing an explosion of densely packed, musical notes. This is most commonly seen in the Maldives specifically places like Constance moofushi where the erosion caused by a large hermit crab presence must happen every May. Angels flew in and took it from the pirates and returned it to the hermit. Other examples of asymmetry are found in fiddler crabs and hermit crabs. Legends grew up that Harold had not died at Hastings but instead fled England or that he later ended his life as a hermit at Chester or Canterbury. In addition to blue crabs, other species were captured during the duration of the study, including stiped hermit crabs, hardhead catfish and a single red drum. Examples from Classical Literature The hermit crab and certain ascidians furnish very fine examples of commensalism. Compared with him as a cosmopolite, the Wandering Jew would have seemed a mere hermit. St. Helier, a hermit in the isle of Jersey, lived for years on a barren crag overlooking the sea. You may remember that we noticed an Anemone which lived on the stolen home of the hermit crab. In the same way the hermit crab goes from shell to shell upon the beach, seeking one to its liking. The crowd finds these systems ready-made and merely backs into them and hides itself like a hermit crab in a deserted seashell. Robed in his snowy ermine he stands out a sceptered hermit wrapped in his isolation. What a singer the hermit thrush will be, for example, when his tune is equal to his voice! And then he kneeled down on his knees, and prayed the hermit for to shrive him and assoil him. The service for blessing a hermit consisted of prayers and psalms and a gift of the eremitical habit. Sometimes an annelid worm lives inside the shell along with the hermit and often the outside is covered with zoophytes. Back in the deep woods a hermit thrush was singing his chant to the rising sun. In his walks in the Maine woods Thoreau failed to discriminate the song of the hermit thrush from that of the wood thrush. I mean the meeting of the King with Friar Tuck at the cell of that buxom hermit. Now hes trying to soft-soap the hermit into letting him have a hunt for it. The case of the hermit or soldier crab was more conclusive, being the result of conscious choice. He composed his understanding, and recollected the lessons of the hospitable hermit. Master, this is a Galilean hermit who wishes to know the sources of your wisdom. But she was glad to learn all that was known about the beach plum Point hermit. The birds were about the size of the hermit thrushes, but lither and suppler. Show More Sentences But the hermitage of Betz possessed this much originality, that it was inhabited by an actual hermit. An aged hermit named Sergius dwelt in the wilds of Arabia, addicting himself to the pursuit of religion and alchemy. When we sent out Devadatta and ananda, they became attached to the life of a hermit. She had come from the home of the wood thrush, where hermit and veery were unknown. The growth of monasticism from the hermit stage to the cloistral life has already been described. Yes, the hermit of Gouda was the vicar of Gouda, and knew it not, so absolute was his seclusion. Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush. In both its hermit and coenobitic phases, monasticism began in the East, in Syria and the Thebaid. At this the hermit in front of the preacher, uttering a shill cry, spread his arms abroad, and quivered from head to foot. And when the hermit saw the Siege Perilous, he asked the king and all the knights why that siege was void. Both the coenobitic and the hermit life were, from the time of their inception, phases of the vita contemplativa. The episode with Makovkina had occurred after five years of his hermit life. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither. Here, indeed, is an up-to-date hermit, not an antique troglodyte. If a hermit could survive a wash, and that failed to convince a duke, give him up, let him alone. He retained his old habits as a cenobite, and even as a hermit. His cabin is multiplied into a hamlet, and his hermit life is gone. When it saw the hermit tending its master, it fawned at his feet. Then we meandered pleasantly away toward the hermit holes in sociable converse together, and better friends than ever. Do you intend to make a complete hermit of yourself and go nowhere at all? Show More Sentences Right so the king and Merlin departed, and went until an hermit that was a good man and a great leech. Inside the cell was a man who held the hermit of Gouda as cheap as dirt. I am hers as the hermit consecrated to Serapis belongs to the god. So he became again a hermit, as in the early days at Brienne school. In my case, I flitted like a hermit crab from one used shell to another. Some creatures, like the hermit crab, are abundant everywhere. In what way might the Anemone be of use to its partner, the hermit crab? The hermit thrush is a common migrant or winter visitant in Coahuila. The wood thrush is less shy than the veery or hermit thrush. The melancholy song of a hermit thrush pierced the stillness. When a hermit thrush sings like that, his nest is somewhere just below. I'm already something of a hermit and the telephonists are often the only people I speak to all day. When the mollusc dies, its empty shell might become a temporary home for a hermit crab or a refuge for a small fish. Thou seest how Saint Godrick, that holy hermit whose natal day this is, hath placed in my hands two swords and in thine never a one. This tasmanian Wild Man outfit will do for a hermit disguise. The hermit speedily unbolted his portal, and admitted Locksley, with his two companions. During this performance, the hermit demeaned himself much like a first-rate critic of the present day at a new opera. The larger significance of the telephone is that it completes the work of eliminating the hermit and gypsy elements of civilization. Robert later declared, probably with some bitter exaggeration, that his life had combined 'the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the unceasing moil of a galley slave. The hermit, as if wishing to answer to the confidence of his guest, threw back his cowl, and showed a round bullet head belonging to a man in the prime of life. Show More Sentences During his hermit life, according to legend, he partook of the bread and wine of the communion once a month, but all the rest of the month he fasted. You want to know why I am living here like a hermit in a vulgar two-roomed hovel instead of tasting the delights of London society with my beautiful and devoted young wife. World class amenities and adventure are offered amidst a backdrop of beautiful beaches, lush vegetation, howler monkeys, and colorful hermit crabs. He had opened his mouth to answer the hermit, when the mouth was stopped and the voice strangled by a strong, soft gag suddenly twisted round his head like a tourniquet. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hermit? Words that rhyme with hermit What is the plural of hermit? What is the adverb for hermit? What is the adjective for hermit? What is the noun for hermit? Translations for hermit Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Hermione hermeticism hermetically hermetical hermetic Hermes hermitage Hermitage hermitic hermitism hermit-like hermits 6-letter Words Starting With h he her herm hermi