A hermit thrush sang marvelously sweet above him; the twilight colors glowed deep and deeper in the water below, where his shadow was clearly eating clams also, in the midst of heaven's splendor.
There he just tasted the brain of his victim to whet his appetite, listened a moment, crouching among the dead leaves, to the melody overhead, wishing it were darker, so that the hermit would come down and he could end his wicked work.
When a hermit thrush sings like that, his nest is somewhere just below.
All the while the wonderful song went on; for the hermit thrush, pouring his soul out, far above on the dead spruce top, heard not a sound of the tragedy below.
You often rally me on my lack of enterprise and ambition, on my hermit habits.
Bolton was gravely delighted, shook my hand paternally, and even promised to quit his hermit hole and go with me to call upon the Van Arsdels.
A hermit in his cell is no judge of what is going on in the world.
There was not the smallest use in trying remonstrance or putting on a sober face; his persistence, and the endless variety of his queer conceits, would have overcome the gravity of the saddesthermit that ever wore sackcloth and ashes.
Well, wasn't it odd that the fates should have thrown this hermitjust in my way?
Of those who formed the train of the hermit Peter, seven thousand only, it is said, reached Constantinople.
Hunger obtained a victory even over the hermit Peter, who was stealing away with William of Melun, when he with his companion was caught by Tancred and brought back to the tent of Bohemond.
Peter the Hermit was sent as their envoy to Kerboga to offer the alternative of departure from a land which St. Peter had bestowed on the faithful, or of baptism which should leave him master of the city and territory of Antioch.
Here the armies of Hungary barred the way against the advance of a host at whose hands they dreaded a repetition of the havoc wrought by the lawless bands of Peter the Hermit and his self-chosen colleagues.
Better service was done by the generosity of Tancred, who made up his quarrel with Raymond: and the enthusiasm of the crusaders was again roused by the preaching of Arnold and the hermit Peter.
Peter the Hermitgoes on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
We are treated to peeps into the nests of the orange-crowned warbler, the hermit thrush, and that shy wader, the spotted sandpiper.
He is of the Kshatriya or "warrior caste," and during the action is living as a Hermit retired in the forest.
When the Hermit Thrush had finished his song about the spotted vest, he looked at his cousin Jolly Robin out of the corner of his eye.
Later, when Jolly Robin met old Mr. Crow, he learned that his cousin, the Hermit Thrush, and his wife had moved away from the swamp the evening before.
The Hermit appeared glad to see Jolly Robin when he came to the swamp that afternoon.
Now, the mere thought of wearing a red waistcoat made the Hermit feel faint.
And since the Hermit was just as sure that nobody else knew how to dress, or how to sing, or how to build a house as well as he did, it is quite plain that the two cousins never could agree.
You can see, just from that, that the Hermit was a very different person from his merry cousin, Jolly Robin.
That last is a youth whom I love dearly: the first is unsocial eno', and methinks would make a better hermit than soldier.
Lucas's story of The Hermit Naturalist reminds us of that of the old classical French romances, like Telemaque, and the somewhat artificial, formal diction is not dissimilar.
The hermit has a romance, involving the loss of his motherless daughter, stolen by brigands and brought to America, his long search for her and resignation of hope, and her ultimate discovery and restoration to him.
If she makes a hermit of herself, I assure you she is not permitted to do so without remonstrance.
You have been making a hermit of yourself, which is not very kind or very complimentary to your friends, I assure you.
But one of Rama's allies, knowing the secret of the king's invulnerability, transformed himself by magic into the likeness of the king, and going to the hermit asked back his soul.
When he was about to give battle to Rama, he deposited his soul with a hermit called Fire-eye, who was to keep it safe for him.
That evening the two were wedded by a crazy hermit who dwelt among the rocks of the fjord, and Anna, without a word of farewell to her kin, left her native land, it might be for ever.
Dost thou deem the mock blessing of yon madhermit a spousal rite?
The king had heard that a hermit lived in Calabria, who was honoured as a saint through all Sicily.
The hermit took his pitcher and went to a fountain.
The hermitlifted his eyes towards the heavens, prayed with clasped hands, and said, "Thus does the righteous man reply to the scoffer.
The hermit was now on the road; and as he brought with him the holy oil of Rheims, to anoint the tyrant's body, the latter imagined that all his disorders would soon vanish, and he should become young again.
The horrible idea of murder made the hermit shudder.
The hermit sank upon this dazzling bosom, without knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Faustus, for secret reasons which the Devil guessed, proposed spending the night with a hermit who dwelt in the hill of Homburg, and who was renowned through the whole neighbourhood for his piety.
The hermit looked on the ground, and replied, with a deep sigh: "He who lives for heaven seldom abandons himself to dangerous repose.
The female hermit holds its eggs in the posterior feet until they are hatched; the young are then released, pass into the water, and soon find shells for themselves.
As the hermit grows he is occasionally obliged to find a new or larger shell, and there are amusing anecdotes of the troubles he experiences at these times while house-hunting.
If the desired shell is occupied by another hermit inferior in strength to himself, he proceeds to take possession by violence.
A quick-moving little hermit with long chelipeds, found in small shells at the water's edge in quiet places.
This hermit is found from North Carolina southward along the edge of the water and in tide-pools.
It cannot be mistaken [pg268] for any other hermit common on our coast, since it has the very distinctive feature of white longitudinal stripes on the ambulatory feet.
This hermit inhabits shells similar to those occupied by the last, but is pale red in color, and its surface is granulated and not hairy.
From the alder swamp behind the pasture, coolly fragrant under the first of the dew-fall, came the ethereal fluting of a hermit thrush, most tender and most poignant of all bird songs.
The hermithushed his fluting in the alder thicket.
A frog croaked from somewhere under the alders where the hermitwas at his fluting.
The hermit arose as the traveler drew up his horse, and speaking kindly to him, invited him to accept such refreshment as it was in his power to offer.
I would that I could be A hermit in the crowd like thee!
The hermit could not reply, but still sat with his head bowed to his bosom, and his eyes upon the ground.
All the hermit had to set before the traveler, was water from a pure stream that came merrily leaping down the hill side, and some wild fruit and nuts.
The hermit ended; he cast down his eyes and silently counted his beads.
Before a wooden crucifix kneeled an aged hermit in deep devotion; he was not aware of the knight's entrance, but still continued in fervent prayer.
If a lot of people come and live in the same place he is a hermit no longer.
Here is a church built by the English in the time of Edward III, when the Black Prince commanded in this country; and it was in a chapel in this city, the remains of which still exist, that Peter the Hermit preached the first crusade.
Clermont: Peter the Hermit preaches First Crusade in, petrifying well; Swiss regiment; anonymous denunciations; method of cleansing town.
Whether in the guise of hope, doubt, profit, or virtue, the shades of that culture hover about us; and we have been deceived by that jugglery even here in the presence of a true hermit of culture.
And now, after making a hermit of myself in some things, in order to avoid the possibility of the scourge, here it was hanging over me for a thing utterly unforeseen, for a crime of which I was as utterly innocent.
Around the hermit of Hyeres, Hugh of Digne, was formed a group of Franciscans who expected from the advent of the third age the triumph of their ascetic ideas.
Having left the protection of the Daltons, and being without those means of subsistence which are within the reach of priest or monk, this hermit depended for his daily bread on other men's kindness.
Men who were before this age, who kept themselves in soothfastness, and spoke nothing idle, won from GOD what they prayed for: and that was shewn to a holy hermit Florentius, who dwelt in a wilderness unknown of men.
A deacon was in that land, who heard of this hermit, and he came at the last to the place where this hermit was dwelling; but he saw so much vermin about that he durst not come near: but cried out for help in fear.
When he had flown ten days' journey thitherward, he came over the place that Publius the hermit dwelled in, who was praying at that time.
Then said the hermit to our Lord; "Lord, these beasts lie here so thickly, that I cannot come to him nor he to me, save we be poisoned by them.
Escaping at last, after many years, he had become a hermit in penance for his great sin.
It was under these circumstances that the hermit who men thought resembled Count Baldwin came on the stage.
While Peter the Hermit had been arousing the warriors of the West, the Turks had been making constant advances in the East, and were now threatening Constantinople itself.
