Word: hermitically
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...Tokugawa Era, which began in 1600, Japan withdrew into its shell like a frightened hermit crab. Feudalism was established; foreigners were driven from the country or tossed from mountaintops; Japanese were forbidden to leave Japan. This period, in many ways Japan's greatest and in many ways the shape of things-to-come in 20th-century Europe, ended in 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry. The Japanese people, who are by nature the world's cleverest imitators, entered into a new era of imitation of all things foreign...
...Welshman John Cowper Powys is concerned, it has that too. It is about Wales during the years 1400-1416. The title character is that subtle, flawed part-genius who led a Welsh-French army toward the London of Henry IV, and died a hermit. Its hero, a venturesome Oxford student named Rhisiart, is a young man with a "narrow skull . . . predatory beak and snatching lips." He becomes Owen's secretary, engulfs himself in an almost pathic loyalty-love for his boss, and has become an English Justice by the time Glendower dies...
Abandoning his 33rd floor aerie (in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel) as well as his customary winter costume of long underwear, red golf socks and high-laced shoes, genial, ghostly, 84-year-old Hermit-Inventor Nikola Tesla (Tesla induction motor, Tesla pump, Tesla transformer, some 700 other patents) indulged an old enthusiasm for prize fighters, went down to dine with a fellow Croat, Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic...
...green carpeted suite on the 14th floor sat Wendell Lewis Willkie, a tousle-haired Peter the Hermit in a rumpled sack suit, waiting for news of his crusade. He lounged in a big chair, his feet propped up on another, his coat gradually inching up his big back...
...clock. To the crowd in the ballroom, watching the board, the bitter, bad news was becoming apparent. Willkie's crusade was going the way of Peter the Hermit's. A desperate, dutiful note crept into the cheering. Slowly the crowd began to thin. On the 14th floor, sprawled narrow-eyed in his chair, the candidate chain-smoked, answered questions absently...