hermits

Here, an impressive former monastery, dedicated to St. Jerome, the patron of hermits, is delightfully decorated in brilliant colours.

The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005

Here, an impressive former monastery, dedicated to St. Jerome, the patron of hermits, is delightfully decorated in brilliant colours.

The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005

What to us two hermits is cheerful and happy, will to you indeed be miserable; but it will be some solace to the goodness of your heart to witness our contentment - to dig with M. d'A. in the garden will be of service to your health; to nurse sometimes with me in the parlour will be a relaxation to your mind.

Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney 1904

The interdiction of wine, peculiar to some orders of priests or hermits, is converted by Mahomet alone into a positive and general law;

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Addressing his fellow monks and extolling poverty, he recalls the hermits and their life of hard work and abstinence.

PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

They are calling the hermits who are going to Hastinapura.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

They were known as hermits or recluses if they provided their own necessities of life or accepted them from strangers; stylites or dendrites, if they chose a pillar or a tree as the scene of their mortifications; lauriotes or kelliotes, if they lived together in a laura.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

They were both described as hermits, differing from the rest of their kind only in that they denied themselves no reasonable luxury and seemed to have adopted a shut-in life from a pure love of seclusion.

The Circular Study Anna Katharine Green 1890

The Camaldolese, like other Carthusians, are properly hermits, that is to say, their life is not conventual, but eremitical.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

They are calling the hermits who are to go with Śakoontalá to Hastinápur.

Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866