How To Use Hermitage In A Sentence
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At the Hermitage they had a glorious scramble up the Mueller Glacier to Mount Ollivier on the Sealy Range before they cycled on to Wanaka, Cromwell and Dunedin.
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We live like the ancient Irish hermits, in separate hermitages, welcome retreatants, and go on the road periodically to give parish missions and retreats.
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He established his hermitage in one of the limestone quarries and lived as a troglodyte for 17 years.
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As well as his Taranaki successes Ian completed a grand traverse of Mount Cook: from The Hermitage to the mountain and back again in 28 hours, a climb that usually takes three days.
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Wasn't the Hermitage created to satisfy those dreams?
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Alessandro Ceva, in the midst of his ministrations in the afflicted city, was called away to assume the priorship of the monastery of San Vito at Milan, and we find him writing from this place in 1599 to the Archbishop of Turin, begging him to ask Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy, to make a solemn vow to God to found a Camaldolese hermitage, that the plague might be arrested.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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They were kilned at the Hermitage Plantation on the Savannah River.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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The empress's favourite, and perhaps more, he is admitted to her private boudoir in the Little Hermitage.
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_Decameron_, vol.iii. p. --, he appears under the more euphonous as well as genial name of PALMERIN: but the "hermitage" there described has been long deserted by its master and mistress -- who have transferred their treasures and curiosities to the sea-girt village, or rather town, of Ryde and its vicinity: where stained-glass windows and velvet bound tomes are seen to yet greater advantage.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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However they sussed out better cuisine and enjoyed their tours of the famous Hermitage and royal palaces.
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Erc taught him seafaring as well, for he had been a sea-bishop, taking the host to the outlying rocky hermitages, and knew the watery desert better than most.
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In 1424 Jobard was still tenant, at the same rent, of what was described as a hermitage or chapel with garden.
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We dance on the green, dine at the hermitage, and wander in the woods by moonlight.
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In the city of long white nights, the czarist splendors of the Hermitage, the Catherine Palace, and the Mariinsky Theatre meet a vital new Russia of capitalist excess (gold-filtered vodka, all-you-can-eat sevruga) and unsolved mysteries. by
Sleepless in St. Petersburg
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That extraordinary complex of shrines, churches, chapels and hermitages, hewn from the rock at Lalibela, were designed as an African mirror to Jerusalem.
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The steep, granitic vineyards of Cornas were hard to farm and many were abandoned, even as C ô te-R ô tie and Hermitage were gaining international renown and Syrah was being planted everywhere from Stellenbosch, South Africa, to the Santa Rita Hills in California.
Rustic but Rewarding, Cornas Gains the Spotlight
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The loss of St. Thomas shone in the hermitage of his new home: Pontoise.
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Renouncing the idea of residing in my own country, I resolved, I promised, to inhabit the Hermitage; and, whilst the building was drying, Madam D'Epinay took care to prepare furniture, so that everything was ready the following spring.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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I am no otherworldly saint who leads a beautiful life of self-sacrifice and prayer in a secluded hermitage.
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He died alone in the solitude of the Sahara Desert in his hermitage, as a quiet witness to Christ.
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He found his inspiration in the Jewellery Gallery of the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the greatest treasury of western art in Russia.
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A tour of the Hermitage today includes the thrilling rags-to-riches story of a gallant frontiersman, chivalrous romantic, and political reformer.
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On returning to Assisi, St. Francis now sought refuge at San Damiano, a quiet hermitage just below Assisi's walls.
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To the careful training of his good mother he was indebted for the exquisite taste and truthfulness with which he interpreted nature; for the nice sense of honor which distinguished him through life, and which often rose to a weakness; for the delicate reserve which made absence from home a self-imposed hermitage; and for the deep, devotional feeling and healthy habit of moral reflection which ever shaped and inwove the pure current of his thoughts and writings.
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
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The Hermitage!" cried Helen, in augmented horror.
The Scottish Chiefs
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This was a wonderful opportunity to visit the hermitage, view its splendid church and library and pray and reflect in the calm peace of a place close to god and nature with wonderful guidance and inspiration from the Monks themselves.
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The most interesting tidbit about the saintly doctors Cosma and Damian is that there's a hermitage devoted to them where the church is famous for its phallic architecture.
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In fact within our hermitage (the usage of the first person plural is a Benedictine custom to negate personal property, as in "our" monastic cell, "our" choir book, in fact choir books will be assigned simply "ad usum fratri caroli" or words to that effect, my ecclesial Latin not being the freshest, with no passage of ownership implied as we commonly understand it), there is no working computer (it fried in last summer's heat) and there has never been more than local phone service for emergencies (I rarely if ever make an out-going call), and never any internet connection.
National Catholic Reporter
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PARIS — To celebrate the opening of its new permanent collection and its new enlarged exhibition space, the Pinacoth è que de Paris is offering a double-header of a temporary show, "The Birth of a Museum," with works from two historic private collections that provided the foundations for two important museums: the Romanov Collection at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Esterh á zy Collection at the Beaux-Arts in Budapest.
Inspiring Imperial Collections
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So that she could play at being a countrywoman at Versailles, Louis XV provided her with a hermitage comprising a pavilion, a menagerie, a pasture, dairy and kitchen garden.
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His priorate was characterized by a wise moderation of the rule, as well as by the foundation of subject-hermitages at San Severino, Gamugno, Acerata,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Accordingly, the knight took no time to consider minutely the particulars which we have detailed, but thanking Saint Julian (the patron of travellers) who had sent him good harbourage, he leaped from his horse and assailed the door of the hermitage with the butt of his lance, in order to arouse attention and gain admittance.
Ivanhoe
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There he built a small hermitage on Mount Chogye-san which he expanded to accommodate his growing community and it became known as Kilsang-sa and eventually Songgwang-sa.
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Other pictures followed, other palaces were built ( 'la fureur de bâtir chez nous est plus forte que lamais,' wrote Catherine the Great), and in 1764 the Empress installed the prizes of her collection in the sober Hermitage which she had specially made to adjoin the extravagantly baroque Winter Palace ordered by her predecessor Elizabeth.
In Russia's Museums
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After seven years, he retires to a hermitage, and when he dies the grail, lance and dish go with him.
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The site of this hermitage was later occupied by a famous monastery and town bearing his name.
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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Desire is first to breach the hermitage, and its embodiment is Mary who, as Anthony kneels before an icon of Christ's Virgin Mother, suddenly seems a tart striking lubricious poses.
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Granny began school at The Hermitage in Geelong on July 27, 1908, aged fourteen.
Granny at The Hermitage
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Kane is a tortured soul; he starts the movie as a piratical badass but upon discovering that the Devil is eagerly awaiting his soul, forsakes his life of violence and embeds himself in a hermitage.
Fantastic Fest – Solomon Kane! « Geek Related
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Of the 160 exhibits assembled for the London show, one-third have been lent from the Hermitage collection.
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The children have been shifted to an ashram or hermitage run by a local sage where they are being made to recite Vedic mantras and fire rituals are being performed to drive the spirits away.
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Reaching the little square in front of the Hermitage, he rested from the ascent, stretching out full length on the crescent of rubblework that formed a bench near the sanctuary.
The Torrent Entre Naranjos
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The design of the hermitage reflects this vision.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three months after his full ordination, he took the unusual step of going into a mountain hermitage on Mt. Hiei for an extended solitary retreat.
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The term ashram refers in Sanskrit to religious hermitage but nowadays often denotes a locus of Indian cultural activity, such as yoga, music study or religious instruction.
Hurriyet Dailynews
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There they chanced on the ruins of a temple, where among the broken walls an old monk had established his hermitage.
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His dumpy women bathers at the Hermitage and the Leiden Museum sit under such trees, with Rembrandtian simplicity dabbling their feet in mere runnels of water.
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They chased one to the hermitage of Eskdaleside, near Whitby, where the hermit protected the exhausted boar and refused to hand it over.
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Chapters are organized by major Franciscan currents: life in poverty; care of the lepers; the role of hermitages; the theology of the cross; and love for God's creation.
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The history in question is Russian, and the ark is St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, one of the world's greatest repositories of European art and civilization.
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The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and the neighboring Hermitage in Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
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The current nugget is … Eric Texier, 2000 Hermitage rouge for $69.
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It became clear to the factory leadership that neither the emperor nor the empress were interested in copies on porcelain of paintings in the Hermitage.
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The calling to a hermit's life became strong again and in 1989, Frances moved back to Whitby and set up her second hermitage.
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These five paintings were from the important collection of Giampietro Campana, marchese di Cavelli, in Rome, part of which the Russians acquired in 1861 and installed in the Hermitage.
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The tent in the woods was his hermitage for that winter.
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Then he chose out an hundred of the doughtiest riders, and he and Sharrkan and the Minister Dandan set out for the hermitage, and the hundred horsemen led the mules with chests for transporting the treasure. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If you've ever wondered how the Russian aristocracy managed to bring a revolution upon themselves, some of the answers are indeed contained within the walls of the Hermitage.
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When indisposition, therefore, confined her to the limits of her own apartment, our heroine adopted the same mode of conduct observed at the Hermitage, during Mrs. Bertram’s illness: — she sung, she read, she assisted Mrs. Ross in any piece of fine needle-work which happened to be in hands at the time; and, in short, endeavoured to soften the painful or tedious moments of distress by every possible means best calculated for the purpose.
Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
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Only St-Joseph and that paler shadow Crozes-Hermitage can sensibly be broached within their first five years.
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Today, Mount Athos is home to some 1,800 monks living in 20 monasteries and outlying hermitages.
A Fossil With Flesh
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The traveler may call it stupid and ugly, if he calls it at all; our Hermitage still patiently wears its havelock of weather-beaten shingles, for _it_ knows that beneath its lowly roof -- radiant with whitewash and fresh paper -- are cozy, coolly curtained rooms, where friendly books look down from the wall, and drowsy arm-chairs woo from the corners.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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But in revenge for this the sons of the king, when Parasurama was away, returned to the hermitage and slew the pious and unresisting sage Jamadagni, who called fruitlessly for succour on his valiant son.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
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The dialogue around Marina's forgetfulness is extremely well done, and the Hermitage material has depth.
The Madonnas of Leningrad: Summary and book reviews of The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean.
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The Hermitage caves are cut into soft red sandstone.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the Hermitage in Geelong on February 20, 1911, Granny recalled seeing the first Bristol Box Kite aeroplane to fly in Australia, a black speck that first appeared over the You Yangs.
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The Immortal Alexander the Great," at Amsterdam's branch of the Hermitage, will include the Gonzaga Cameo, a reddish sardonyx engraving of Alexander that shows off his fabled good looks, and brightly painted manuscripts from 15th-century Persia like "Iskandar and the Hermit," created to entertain the sultans.
Xanadu, Sacramento and Beyond
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It is a cultural institution, no less important than the Hermitage or the Bolshoi Theatre.
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As are the ruins of their monasteries and hermitages (apart from a crumbling monastery tower, and a winsome Welsh chapel).
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Roche hermitage in Cornwall occupies a spire of rocks of schorl that shoots 100 feet above the surrounding moor.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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He met children from Hermitage Primary School in Tower Hamlets and St Peter's Primary School in Woolwich as they enjoyed workshops in royal regalia, arms and armour.
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The award recognized the challenges involved in the building project and its sympathetic approach to the hermitage, which provides a place for the hermit monks, both male and female to live a life of solitude.
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It was Bold Walter of Buccleuch and his men, and each of them had stuck a branch of witch's hazel in his basnet, for 'tis said that a twig of hazel protects its wearer from the arts of magic, and they had no mind to be bewitched by the Lord of Hermitage.
Tales From Scottish Ballads
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Nhat Hanh keeps an image of Jesus next to the Buddha on the altar in his hermitage in France where, in a place called Plum Village, he maintains a meditation center.
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In the course of her research Colegate, who is evidently well-travelled and well-read, has wandered both locally and exotically, fanning out from her own garden in Wiltshire where she restored an ancient hermitage.
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The muse sits neglected, if not forspent, in the hemicycle of the arts: Dark Science broods in Fancys hermitage,
0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
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His Christian connection still strong, Steele would go on frequent meditation retreats at a Catholic hermitage in Big Sur, and, for a time, even considered joining the order.
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At 6: 15 p.m. on August 29, 2010, at a secluded mountaintop hermitage overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sonoma County, California, four women, all long-time dedicated practitioners, were declared fully ordained as bhikkhunis, Buddhist nuns, in the Thai Theravada tradition.
Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition
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The children have been shifted to an ashram or hermitage run by a local sage where they are being made to recite Vedic mantras and fire rituals are being performed to drive the spirits away.
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Sergius obeyed the starets, showed his letter to the Abbot, and having obtained his permission, gave up his cell, handed all his possessions over to the monastery, and set out for the Tambov hermitage.
Father Sergius
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The Hermitage, a large house in Newtown that was originally built in 1859/60 for the Armytage family, was bought by the archdiocese for £6,000, and another £6,000 spent on electric wiring, furniture, and other improvements.
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