42 Verbs to Use for the Word hermits

They continued with their kind inviter a few days longer, and then went forward to find the hermit.

Upon my life, old Lancaster, a-hunting, Hath met my fellow-hermit.

On the contrary, you nearly ruined him by making a hermit of him and giving him no schooling to speak of and no society except that of servants.

During his last years, after a period of travel, he lived almost a hermit, dying in 1893, only three years over fifty.

"Though grief and fondness in my breast rebel, When injur'd Thales bids the town farewell; Yet still my calmer thoughts his choice commend; I praise the hermit, but regret the friend: Resolv'd, at length, from vice and London far, To breathe, in distant fields, a purer air; And, fix'd on Cambria's solitary shore, Give to St. David one true Briton more.

And when he had long sought and demanded where he should find Him, he came at length into a great desert where dwelt a hermit, a servant of the Christ.

Still eager upon the same inquiry, and resolving to discover whether that felicity which public life could not afford was to be found in solitude, Rasselas determined to visit a hermit who lived near the lowest cataract of the Nile and filled the whole country with the fame of his sanctity, Imlac and the princess agreeing to accompany him.

"They are in the winds," replied the hermit, "that swell the sails of the ship; it is true, they sometimes sink her, but without them she could not sail at all.

This accident hath hit thy humour, Gloster; From pursuivant I'll turn a hermit now.

On a lake lovers dally in a tiny pavilion, while in the background two princes consult a hermit before leaving on their travels.

A man should live in or near a large town, because, let his own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion, and drag the most improbable hermit within its walls some day in the year.

With a gentle smile he had handed the whip to Tom Bryan, the very smile which he imagined the hermits of old time used to wear.

"I am that man," said the caliph, and he then informed the hermit how in his boyhood he once stole a bracelet, and his nurse ever after called him "Moclas," the name of a well-known thief.

So lived I in the greenwood, happy and content, until on a day this saintly Ambrose told me a woeful taleso did I know this humble hermit for the noble Duke, my father.

All this was gospel truth, and as proof, there lay the original hermit buried at the foot of the altar; and there was the Virgin, too, her face blackened by the sun and the salt wind on her miraculous voyage over the sea.

I knew that my husband loved this dead hermit very tenderly, but I little thought that his loss would make him mad with grief.

And man the hermit sigh'd, till woman smiled.

Passerini says he was a priestprobably he means a hermit.

It was not like the Racey he knew to play the hermit.

"Behold!" quoth the hermit, "'tis an armour worthy of a king, light is it, yet marvellous strong, and hath been well tried in many a desperate affray.

Tell my domestic priest Somaráta to receive the hermits with due honour, according to the prescribed form.

It was an old man clad in sackcloth, who resembled a hermit.

"Trouble," roared the hermit of Topsail Island.

The following day, the servants, upon being questioned, declared, to a man, that they had seen no hermit.

Ascanio now appears in search of his love, and is directed by Morpheus, at the hest of Juno, to seek out a certain hermit, who will be able to advise him.

42 Verbs to Use for the Word  hermits