Sentences with phrase «by hermit»

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They dogs were not correctly socialized and really needed to be owned by a hermit living alone at the end of a long road.
The prince fires back with a feat the queen must perform or die stand before the high cross by the hermit's chapel with nothing but a sheaf of oats to eat until the prince returns.
The function of the pincer and claw, however, is at present unknown, although a video shows that it is used by the hermit crab to push itself while crawling along the bottom.
Finn argues this qualifies as tool use because the shells are not permanent homes like those occupied by hermit crabs, but are carried around for future use (Current Biology, vol 19, p R1069).
Half of the Bible is written by hermits who went into caves decades after Jesus» death.

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Along with the rise of its nuclear and missile programs, the Hermit Kingdom's hacking prowess has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years.
In his second offering, freshly translated into elegant and unwrinkled English by Lisa C. Hayden, Vodolazkin recounts the mystical itinerary of a medieval man who passes from healer to holy fool, from monastic to hermit.
A monk who lives all by himself in the woods is called a hermit.
The «Bible» was written by a bunch of hermit priests sitting locked away in some monastery high on herbs, mushrooms, and / or opium writing down what the crooked Popes in Rome wanted them to write.
In Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron, the story's narrator has a conversation with a Fransican friar, in which the friar explains that he was once a teacher and then a hermit.
Popular preachers, such as Peter the Hermit, whipped up support of the people, often by maligning Jews and Muslims.
Then I was invited to visit a monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine monks who live by the Rule of St. Benedict and the Brief Rule of St. Romuald, a tenth - century Italian known as the «father of reasonable hermits
In her account of her «shewings», by which she meant the disclosures (or series of revelations) which she believed were given her in the cell which as an «anchoress» or hermit she occupied adjoining St. Julian's Church in Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian message.
In the Jordan steppe, on the reed - and shrub - covered floor of the valley which extends along both sides of the Jordan throughout the southern part of its course, a hermit, John by name, carried on his lonely existence.
«Now by my fay,» quoth King Tafur, «the Hermit sayeth true.»
For example, a number of nomad Arabs in the valley of the Euphrates accepted Christianity because they were attracted to the Christian faith by the power which the Christian monks and hermits exercised over the evil spirits in the name of Jesus.»
Mingana mentions the biography of hermit Yonan, the archimandrite of the Monastery of St. Thomas in India written by the end of the fourth century.
A friend of the Abbot of Cluny and of the ardent reforming hermit and Abbot Peter Damien, he traveled widely, fighting simony, enforcing clerical celibacy, and insisting that bishops be elected by their people and the clergy and not appointed by the lay lords.
Distressed by the vices of the nominally Christian population, in his teens he left the city and adopted the life of a hermit.
You can see penguins up close, walk around the four - story ocean tank and stop by the touch tank to hold hermit crabs and other little creatures.
Plus, because walking coral fossils are easy to come by in Japan, she also wants «to reveal the evolutionary history of the symbioses of walking corals [with] sipunculans and hermit crabs by observing these fossils.»
In 1986, Ivan Chase of Stony Brook University made the first observations of hermit crabs exchanging shells in a «vacancy chain» — a term originally coined by social scientists to describe the ways that people trade coveted resources like apartments and jobs.
Only one thing could break up the chain of crabs: a Goldilocks hermit crab for whom the shell introduced by Lewis and Rotjan was just right.
The «hermit scientist,» a youthful Gardner wrote, works alone and is ignored by mainstream scientists.
Although further research is needed to explain why hermit thrushes choose to sing pitches whose relationship follows the harmonic series, one possibility, mentioned by the authors, is that female hermit thrushes may evaluate a male's singing accuracy by its ability to follow the overtone series.
Early 20th - century studies claimed that hermit thrush song follows the same principles found in human musical systems, but these were anecdotal reports which were not supported by a rigorous analysis.
Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.
Enter the toy octopus: A team of researchers in California is exploring how the changing ocean chemistry affects a hermit crab's fight - or - flight response by simulating octopus attacks in the laboratory.
Codename: Green - eyed hermit crab Name: Paragiopagurus atkinsonae Compromised: May Known territory: South African coast Physical characteristics: Green eyes; living shell composed of anemones held together by sand Notable skills / traits: EVASION / CAMOUFLAGE: P. atkinsonae wasn't spotted until 2012.
Recent underwater photographs and video obtained using scuba equipment by underwater photographer Ellen Muller at dive sites in the National Marine Park of the southern Caribbean island of Bonaire revealed the presence of a small, secretive and brightly colored red - striped hermit crab that proved to represent a species new to science.
The tiny hermit crab Diogenes pugilator, originally native to the Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic, by now also feels at home in the North Sea.
«Cleaning» parasites or fouling organisms from the body of many cooperating fish, or removal of undesired food particles by certain small and colorful shrimps has been known for nearly 60 years, but never has a hermit crab been documented to engage in such type of ecological association.
HERMIT (an acronym for Holtec Earthquake Response Mitigator) is a device that was developed and perfected by Holtec to enable cask loading operations to be carried out without physically typing down the cask to protect against earthquakes.
The complication is that Agis, since a boy, was taken in by philosopher Hermocrates (Ben Kingsley) and his spinster sister Leontine (Fiona Shaw), a scientist attempting to generate electricity: inveterate hermits both.
This watershed moment ended with Mukunda being taken into custody by the cops, after which point the officials began to intercede with Oscar's self - made hermit kingdom, and the cloistered Angulo boys began, tentatively, to roam their neighborhood as a group.
The famously hermit - like entertainment journalist, who allegedly ruled her roost much like a mob boss, was the thinly veiled subject of the project, which starred Keaton as Not - Nikki, was co-written by Condon and «Tell Me You Love Me» creator Cynthia Mort, and set up at the premium cable network back in 2011, and was the recipient of much attention from the trades (Finke wasn't intially aware of the project, but eventually struck a deal with HBO, seemingly mostly to ensure her silence).
A reserved hermit, the squirmy Lars has a headspace as spartan as his living space — sleeping in the garage of his childhood home, now occupied by brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and pregnant sister - in - law Karin (Emily Mortimer).
Variety reports that Reno will play the role of Jacques the Frenchman, a hermit who knows more than he lets on and proves the only villager who stands by Carla as she seeks to get to the bottom of events.
The film «Wakefield,» adapted from an E.L. Doctorow short story originally published in the New Yorker about a disgruntled family man's retreat into hermit - like introspection, has been lovingly traced over by writer - director Robin Swicord («The Jane...
Our setting is a small backwater community, yet catastrophes and contretemps fairly tumble over one another within minutes of the film's start: two members of the local constabulary gone missing, the several - days - ripe corpse of a young woman turned up at lakeside, another cop shot in the foot by a whacked - out hermit, and wait, is there yet one more dead woman to be discovered out there?
After briefly occupying the attentions of Mama Gunda and her quarrelsome sons, Tarzan encounters his most significant destination of the film, Dark Mountain, which is primarily inhabited by a cranky old hermit voiced by comedian George Carlin and named... Zugor.
The rest of them are various incarnations of nerdiness, from Dawntreader Bob and his hermit - like existence, to Doctor Dave (Nick Frost), the unlikely and beefy ladies man, to Angus (Rhys Darby), the corny jokester, to Simple Simon (Chris O» Dowd), the sweet one with a big, innocent heart, to Felicity (Katharine Parkinson), the bubbly lesbian who is becoming increasingly alarmed by her burgeoning sexual appetites.
After losing an arm and a leg to a ravenous cannibal, Arlen kills her captor and escapes, navigating her way across a Texas wasteland occupied by the muscular Miami Man (Jason Momoa), a mysterious hermit (Jim Carrey) and a revered figure known as «The Dream» (Keanu Reeves).
The pack includes: A long colourful display banner A display border with colourful Hermit crabs An A4 word card to use when writing about the story and sea creatures A title poster for display Word and picture cards of the different sea creatures in the story Word cards with words relating to the story on sea shells Sea creature flash cards Sea creature fact cards with simple facts about the sea creatures in the story Tracing pattern worksheets Match the label to the correct sea creature worksheet Colour photographs of different sea creatures and underwater scenes - great for discussion and displays Design a new house for Hermit crab worksheet Label the sea creatures worksheets A Hermit crab fact book to make and complete Fact posters about Hermit crabs with colour photographs Sequencing picture cards for the story Cut and paste sequence worksheet What happens next worksheets My favourite part of the story worksheet Comparing my house to Hermit crabs house worksheet - with different version for different abilities Cut and paste the months of the year with pictures of the corresponding sea creature Month cards for display with corresponding sea creatures Beginning, middle and end worksheet Count the different sea creatures on the shell worksheets An alphabet line on Hermit crabs A number line to 30 on different sea creatures A crab face mask to make - in colour and black and white Writing paper with themed borders Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.
The last human on earth, a hermit by the name of Snowman, struggles to survive in what has become an environmentally dangerous world.
I linger over every item: photos of loved ones, my children's drawings, posters, the little tin cyclist sent by a friend the day before the Paris - Roubaix bike race, and the IV pole hanging over the bed where I have been confined these past six months, like a hermit crab dug into his rock.
I'm a hermit by nature, so for me, leaving the hustle and bustle of the ER and all that chaos and retreating into my solitude to write was heaven.
If you buy hermits by the hundreds, you will need to feed them specifically, or you will lose a fair percentage.
The ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive hermit crab is better served by hobbyists — and retailers — who are willing to invest some time and money into providing these creatures top - notch care.
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