“People left their hearths and home to live the life of a recluse and a hermit in deserts and mountains.”

“Common lobsters, edible crabs, velvet swimming crabs, shore crabs and hermit crabs were common.”

“He times it carefully, and quickly turns the tables on the hermit, pressing his attack and his advantage.”

“The monks found solace and peace in their serene hermitage nestled in the mountains.”

“On returning to Assisi, St. Francis now sought refuge at San Damiano, a quiet hermitage just below Assisi's walls.”

“He established his hermitage in one of the limestone quarries and lived as a troglodyte for 17 years.”

“He was found dead on September 8, 1995, after forty years with little output and increasing hermitism.”

“But I have been back to the taiga a couple of times, and I know I will experience again an act of hermitism, maybe for longer.”

“At first she pities Seymour's socially retarded, ultra-cynical hermitism, but then it only adds zeal to her seduction strategy when her relationship with Rebecca gets rocky.”

“Among the fronds are swimming crabs, hermits, prawns and well-camouflaged scorpionfish.”

“So, beat generation hermits aside, who are the potential Gwyneth Herbert fans?”

“But don't assume that packing food means lunch hours secluded in our cubicles like antisocial moles or hermits.”