Hummingbirds, with names like green hermits, green violet-ears, and amethyst-throated sunangels, whir and dart from vine flower to orchid. |
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It is something that we will never stop being fascinated in, until one day we all become hermits and live in solitary caves. |
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This question applies with particular acuteness to the situation of hermits or solitaries. |
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The hermits, unable to find an answer to Narad's question, summoned a great assembly. |
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So, beat generation hermits aside, who are the potential Gwyneth Herbert fans? |
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Among the fronds are swimming crabs, hermits, prawns and well-camouflaged scorpionfish. |
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Electronic hermits are people who live in total human isolation, but are hyperconnected via television, radio, the Net, SMS and what have you. |
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But this was just to touch at the first impressions of a land where hermits, monks and pilgrims remain part of the essential tapestry of life. |
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These hermits, acting as their own spiritual guides, were easily led to excesses and misdirection. |
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But don't assume that packing food means lunch hours secluded in our cubicles like antisocial moles or hermits. |
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Another described the huts of hermits on remote islands off the coast of Ireland and asked if I was constructing a prayer closet. |
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The pattern of introgression found by Rohwer and Wood predicts that Townsend's males will be superior to hermits in these behavioral measures. |
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That said, like all weirdo songwriters destined to evolve into cranky, bearded hermits, he has inspired his own legion of obsessive completists. |
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Valaam, on a beautiful island in Lake Ladoga near the Finnish border, is once again home to both monks and hermits. |
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I'm sure there are hermits living in the hills of Haiti who have served the Lwa all their life and are mighty in Legba's magick, who have never set foot in a peristyle. |
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The hermits in search of God in solitude possessed different personalities. |
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The Santa MarÃa de Vallbona Monastery began as mixed groups of hermits, who later became cenobites, organised as double community. |
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But is all of our time online turning us into antisocial hermits? |
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Those mean hermits don't seem to be anywheres close, now are they? |
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The influx of congregation obliged the hermits to install a new chapter house to the south, in the same ensemble of buildings. |
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Isabel Colegate has read about hermits and recluses up and down the ages, and across the world. |
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They were originally hermits who lived in the deserts of the Near East according to an extremely strict way of life. |
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To the extent that we do not wish to become hermits, we cannot escape one another. |
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The convenience of these sight-unseen relationships has turned some managers into electronic hermits. |
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He sanctified the whole of the country by his presence by making it worthy to be dwelt in by the holy hermits, as history has shown. |
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We were shown the castles and villages, infrastructure of modern cities and caves of monks hermits. |
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South Mountain was a name for nearby Mt. Lu, a landmark site in northern Jiangxi Province known as an abode of hermits, religious communities, and spirit beings. |
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Though not hermits or recluses, they do enjoy their own space to ruminate about what makes the world go round not to mention what makes people tick. |
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Historically, the position has usually been held by priests of the hermitage, but now civilian hermits may apply. |
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Asymmetries in the character transition curves describing these zones suggest that Townsend's warblers have a selective advantage over hybrids and hermits. |
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We live like the ancient Irish hermits, in separate hermitages, welcome retreatants, and go on the road periodically to give parish missions and retreats. |
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The young monk sat silent, thinking of the solitary hermits. |
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In early times one group of islands was in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. |
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The middle tank can be used as a vivarium for land hermits or just a glass display cabinet to lock away and yet still display expensive equipment or highlight product promotions. |
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Why do hermits live in such dark and inaccessible places? |
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This may discriminate in favour of hermits. |
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It is the yearning of many who enter the monastic life to eventually become solitary hermits. |
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The site was no more than a hovel in a bog which may have been used previously by religious hermits. |
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Their exploits are intermingled with encounters with maidens and hermits who offer advice and interpret dreams along the way. |
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In earlier ancient China, Taoists were thought of as hermits or recluses who did not participate in political life. |
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In early times the Isles of Scilly were in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. |
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Yell's placenames reveal the presence of the Celtic Church, whose hermits were known to the Norse as papar. |
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Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs. |
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In Qasr Abu Hadi, a hamlet on the outskirts of Sirte where the colonel claimed to have been born in a goat-hair tent, a few villagers have not cut their hair since his death and wander through the town dazed, like hermits. |
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Often depicted in a rural setting, in the solitude of a hermitage or surrounded by animals spellbound by this music, hermits and ascetics play the vina, their favoured instrument. |
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God saved the world twice from materialism and corruption through the immense revolution of the Gnosis: through the mystics and the Gnostics, the hermits of the deserts and the great thinkers of the caverns. |
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I think some crazed hermits have kneeled in their caves, praying, much the way in which I have craved the return of five o'clock shadow. |
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Some of these hermits gathered around themselves groups of disciples, and gave rise to the Pachomian cenobitical communities, characterized by a strong, and sometimes harsh, discipline. |
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Our two hermits are in touch electronically in charism reflection. |
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The choice of the place is certainly conditioned by the impressiveness, by the predisposition to the sacred of Mount Pirchiriano and by the pre-existence of a colony of hermits on Mount Caprasio. |
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He also chose to found beside the small citadels five monasteries of contemplative sisters and one of hermits, and considered them among his most important achievements. |
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But it is less the eremitic tradition that sparks her than her encounters with living hermits, tucked away in Wales and Scotland and at the bottom of a Surrey garden. |
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Free yourselves from your alike ones and live as hermits if, as I did at sixty-seven, you happen to experience the loss of all of your true friends. |
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Eremitic monks, or hermits, are those who live solitary lives. |
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The islands were used by hermits intermittently from the seventh century. |
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Yet he also says that the cenobium is the better way for most. Monastic history began with hermits and developed from loose colonies to formal communities. |
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