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  • When I'm finished delivering the telegrams there's enough time to go to the ancient monastery graveyard where my mother's relations are buried, the Guilfoyles and the Sheehans, where my mother wants to be buried.†   (source)
  • Late that afternoon I arrived at Tengboche,* the largest, most important Buddhist monastery in the Khumbu.†   (source)
  • I can see now that I have been living a life of monastic simplicity compared to Tina.†   (source)
  • On Pacem, few of us at the monastery wore or carried personal comlogs, but the datasphere was always there if we needed to tap into it.†   (source)
  • It was also one of the revered Buddhist religious sites, dating back to the second century and once home to hundreds of monks and many monasteries.†   (source)
  • Find a monastery somewhere.†   (source)
  • Here I am, he thought once, the world's only monastic druggie.†   (source)
  • As far as she knew, the monks had worked at desks with sloping tops in the scriptoria of their monasteries, but she kept this information to herself.†   (source)
  • The daughters put all kinds of things into their albums, little scraps of cloth from their dresses, little snippets of ribbon, pictures cut from magazines — the Ruins of Ancient Rome, the Picturesque Monasteries of the French Alps, Old London Bridge, Niagara Falls in summer and in winter, — which is a thing I would like to see as all say it is very impressive, and portraits of Lady This and Lord That from England.†   (source)
  • …no trees growing in the burning lumps of sodium nitrate, the line of carriages with their funereal tops and their horses asleep where they stood, the yellow train to San Pedro Alejandrino, and on the corner next to the largest church she saw the biggest and most beautiful of the houses, with an arcaded passageway of greenish stone, and its great monastery door, and the window of the bedroom where Álvaro would be born many years later when she no longer had the memory to remember it.†   (source)
  • The academy, the Church of Reason, is concerned exclusively with those things that can be defined, and if one wants to be a mystic, his place is in a monastery, not a University.†   (source)
  • I began thinking that perhaps a life of celibacy in a remote monastery wouldn't be such a bad future after all.†   (source)
  • From then on, monasteries had the monopoly of education, reflection, and meditation.†   (source)
  • Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury—his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude.†   (source)
  • THEY STOOD IN THE COURTYARD of an old compound, like a monastery.†   (source)
  • He had curled his legs, himself, around Eric, since Eric's body was there; and desire had entered this monastic, this boyish bed.†   (source)
  • It originated in the mid-1920s as an Augustine monastery for the People of Faith.†   (source)
  • Frunze, in Moscow near the old Novodevichiy Monastery, was named for a hero of the Revolution.†   (source)
  • Not even her…… Anyway, when I finish writing my account of you and Saphira and the rise of the Varden, I'll send it to our monastery in the Spine, and it will be included as a number of new chapters in Domia abr Wyrda.†   (source)
  • It had once been the site of Buddhism's third-largest monastery and a base for spreading the Buddha's teachings north into the mountains.†   (source)
  • He talked now of some country teacher, a name garbled, who. found in Lestat a brilliant pupil and begged to take him to a monastery for an education.†   (source)
  • She told me that the Christopher Columbus was a thriving business and that every year she renovated part of the decor, replacing the stranded hulls of Polynesian shipwrecks with severe monastic cloisters, and baroque garden swings with torture racks, depending on the latest fashion.†   (source)
  • Richard of St. Victor's ancient monastic practice proved useful for an interminable ocean crossing.†   (source)
  • What's the routine on joining a monastery?†   (source)
  • I remember one morning standing outside an old monastery, staring down at a bloodstain on a driveway.†   (source)
  • Even in the late morning, the shadows were as deep as those in a monastery cloister.†   (source)
  • The closest to us is the old Augustinian Monastery on Grymes Hill, in Staten Island.†   (source)
  • Over a thousand years ago, the monastic traditions formed the basis for both our cultures.†   (source)
  • Abdicating his titles, he retired to a monastery where he surrounded himself with hundreds of clocks.†   (source)
  • Zacharie had presided over the school for two more years, then had retreated to a monastery in France.†   (source)
  • Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.†   (source)
  • You can see from the ruins outside the monastery that the quarters and such fell.†   (source)
  • That's what happens when you buy your railroad tickets in a monastery.†   (source)
  • In the monastery where they stayed, Parador de San Francisco, the gardens were laid out so neatly, with fountains and stone benches, and stones inlaid on the walkways.†   (source)
  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery sits on a large, shaded property.†   (source)
  • It's monastic, which is a relief.†   (source)
  • It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross in Glendalough, a monastic site not too far from where we lived in Co. Wicklow, a place which to this day is one of the most wooded and watery retreats in the whole of the country.†   (source)
  • The same thing has happened in Trappist monasteries throughout the centuries.†   (source)
  • Oh, I wasn't about to hole up in a monastery.†   (source)
  • He tended the pray-machine, and the giant metal lotus he had set atop the monastery roof turned and turned in its sockets.†   (source)
  • He raised his head and from his vantage point absently glanced about the bare autumn landscape and the domes of the monastery.†   (source)
  • Cathedrals, chapels, tabernacles, abbeys, monasteries, convents, parochial schools ….†   (source)
  • Both proud palaces and remote monasteries, in other words.†   (source)
  • In the same year, the Benedictine order, the first of the great monastic orders, was founded.†   (source)
  • "I guess I'm making up for all those monastic years as a nuc.†   (source)
  • By the monastic calendar on Pacere, it is the seventeenth day of Thomasmonth in the Year of Our Lord 2732.†   (source)
  • Both in art and in real life, we meet pompous and flamboyant forms of self-expression, while at the same time there arose a monastic movement, turning away from the world.†   (source)
  • In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.†   (source)
  • His apartment was small and spare, absolutely monastic; it was less a place to live in than it was a place to work; and she felt, suddenly and sharply, how profoundly he might resent the intrusion into his undecorated isolation of the feminine order and softness.†   (source)
  • But you could have lived on a stone pillar in the desert, or entered one of those monasteries where they don't talk to each other.†   (source)
  • A monastic stillness reigned in their home; the blinds were drawn, and everything was spotlessly clean, as in an operating room.†   (source)
  • They returned to the gates of the monastery.†   (source)
  • Of course, by then even the gods in the monastery had changed their minds.†   (source)
  • They went to the kitchen at the back of the monastery.†   (source)
  • The alchemist knocked on the gate of the monastery.†   (source)
  • You even left a bit of gold at the monastery so I could get back to this church.†   (source)
  • That he spent these past two decades in a monastery?†   (source)
  • I wish Finch were here so we could say, Who dreams of building a monastery in Indiana?†   (source)
  • As she turned, Isabelle saw the monastery behind her, rising out of the dull foliage.†   (source)
  • But Morgan and Emily had never reached that monastery.†   (source)
  • He had arranged for the construction of a small monastery near the school.†   (source)
  • I didn't buy my tickets in a monastery, thank you very much," she said.†   (source)
  • "Almost, though," Yama decided, and that night he squirted demon repellent about the monastery.†   (source)
  • There was a tower, a high tower rising from the northeast comer of the monastery.†   (source)
  • The center was an old army warehouse next to the Simonov Monastery.†   (source)
  • They saw Mara do the same-here, in this monastery where we have revived the principle of ahimsa.†   (source)
  • They spent the night at the monastery, where Uncle Nikolai was given a room for old times' sake.†   (source)
  • The road circled the hill of the monastery and zigzagged on through the outskirts of the town.†   (source)
  • A wave of grayness covered over the monastery.†   (source)
  • Find him strong drink to drink-there is none here in the monastery.†   (source)
  • The orphanage was an abandoned monastery near Dragon Bone Hill, a hard climb up a zigzag road from the railway station.†   (source)
  • When Carlo recovered, the bishop arranged for him to live in a small monastery attached to the cathedral over which the bishop presided.†   (source)
  • When the Count had passed through Petrovskoye in 1918 on his hurried return from Paris, he had come upon a gathering of peasants milling in mute consternation before the monastery's walls.†   (source)
  • You mean this isn't a monastery?†   (source)
  • The monastery was back.†   (source)
  • -Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain They had unwrapped the book.†   (source)
  • Around my neck I wore a Xistone-a sacred Buddhist amulet blessed by the lama from the Pangboche monastery-that Doug had given me early on in the expedition.†   (source)
  • Twenty-six of the local workers stayed, as did Kai Jing, Dong, and Chao, who also lived on the former monastery grounds.†   (source)
  • Capricorn's house was a large, bulky building, which might once have been the village hall, a disused monastery, or a school.†   (source)
  • I had never been to Homesystem or Mars before and I never plan to return, but the ten days I spent there, alone and wandering the dusty, haunted corridors of the Monastery, served to send me back to the ship.†   (source)
  • Back in the troika they would charge across the countryside, cutting through the village of Petrovskoye, where the Church of the Ascension stood not far from its monastery's walls.†   (source)
  • There were no books in Elinor's kitchen, not one, but they ate an excellent supper there at a wooden table that came, so Elinor assured them, from the scriptorium of an Italian monastery.†   (source)
  • When the abbot rushed from the monastery to confront the captain— demanding in the name of the Lord that they cease this desecration at once—the captain leaned against a post and lit a cigarette.†   (source)
  • There was the Church of the Shrike, of course-there were no temples on Barnard's World but many in the Web-but he soon found that seeking hard information in Shrike cult literature was like trying to map the geography of Sarnath by visiting a Buddhist monastery.†   (source)
  • Soon there were fifty flags waving along the outside wall of the old monastery building, then a hundred, two hundred.†   (source)
  • Two foreign and ten Chinese scientists lived in the north end of the monastery compound, and they ate their morning and evening meals in the temple hall with us.†   (source)
  • With Helena, Alexander was always his most outlandish, claiming as he collapsed on the grass that they had just met Tolstoy on the train; or that he had decided after careful consideration to join a monastery and take an eternal vow of silence.†   (source)
  • The old monastery is gone.†   (source)
  • I finally heard in the market last week that the quarries at Dragon Blue Hill were becoming busy again, and that the American and Chinese scientists were living in the old monastery, along with the students of the orphanage.†   (source)
  • And there were many, many statues, both Buddhist and Taoist, because the monastery had been occupied by both kinds of monks in different centuries, depending on which warlord was in charge of the land.†   (source)
  • Then it had been a stuck-up rich kids' prep school, but it had originally been built as a monastery for the Saint Augustine People of Faith monks.†   (source)
  • And beneath the first rise of the stair, out of the gloom emerged the vast, dark opening to the monastery's remaining rooms.†   (source)
  • The friar tells me how the church and the tributes and the grounds we are walking on were designed and built by former chaplains from the Polish army, who came to the States after World War II and fulfilled their dream of creating a monastery in Indiana.†   (source)
  • And I saw the desolate mountaintop in eastern Europe where I had confronted that mindless vampire and killed him in the monastery ruins.†   (source)
  • The great monastery in Tibet.†   (source)
  • And they'd come to this remote place finally because there was a ruined monastery nearby which was said to be a very well reserved place.†   (source)
  • Only the monastery truly remained.†   (source)
  • But then I opened my eyes and saw beyond the distant bark of the trees the long, low walls of the monastery and the high square top of the massive tower.†   (source)
  • But then I saw with astonishment that his eyes did not see me as I saw him, and he was trudging under the weight of the body he carried towards the monastery door.†   (source)
  • I arrived at the Trappist monastery with its two thousand acres of wood and farmlands and entered the courtyard as the monks were chanting Vespers.†   (source)
  • I telephoned the Trappist monastery at Conyers, Georgia, about thirty miles away and asked if they would receive me for a short visit.†   (source)
  • He invited me to go with him to visit Flannery O'Connor the next day, but I told him that since I had only a few hours, I felt I must spend them in the monastery.†   (source)
  • Hoarfrost, bearded like mold, sprouted on the chains with crosses hanging from the domes and on the pink monastery walls.†   (source)
  • How well they sang at the monastery!†   (source)
  • She generally moved about the monastery while her followers were at prayer or after they had retired for the evening.†   (source)
  • Yura realized that this, altered in appearance by the new buildings, was the part of the monastery grounds where the blizzard had raged that night.†   (source)
  • "Indeed," said Balarma, "we should be honored if a holy one were to see fit to bless our monastery with his presence.†   (source)
  • The doctor and his father-in-law went through the monastery and the barrack yard and straight through a low stone door into a vaulted cellar.†   (source)
  • The four of them sat in the chamber in the high tower that rose from the northeast corner of the monastery.†   (source)
  • Below them, in the cavernous cellars of the monastery, the signal was received and other preparations were begun: the host was made ready.†   (source)
  • Beyond the river, on an even steeper rise, they could see the. brick walls of the Vozdvizhensky Monastery.†   (source)
  • At the seventh canonical hour, at one in the morning by the clock, a dark low sweet humming drifted from the deepest of the monastery bells, which hardly stirred.†   (source)
  • In the future, I suggest you annoint yourself thoroughly if you intend venturing very far from the monastery.†   (source)
  • To be safe, though, practice every night in front of a mirror with that esthetics lecture you gave back at Ratri's monastery.†   (source)
  • Almost indistinguishable in the distance, behind the network of rain, candles, lighting a face here, a forehead or a nose there, stirred and moved across the monastery yard.†   (source)
  • When it reached the center of the town it skirted the monastery grounds once again, for the green-painted iron door of the monastery gave on to the main square.†   (source)
  • On the last occasion, it circled the monastery, possibly observing the funeral rites being conducted there.†   (source)
  • It flashed above the peaks of the mountains, crossed over the monastery, whipping the smokes into invisibility.†   (source)
  • It clung to the summit of the hill in tiers, house by house and street by street, with a big church in the middle on the top, as in a cheap color print of a desert monastery or of Mount Athos.†   (source)
  • From there her house was down the street on the left, but every time she came to it she changed her mind about going in and turned back into the maze of alleys adjoining the monastery.†   (source)
  • They would not ravage the monastery of a fellow god, displaying before men the division of their ranks-not unless they were certain.†   (source)
  • "My monastery," answered Ratri.†   (source)
  • In the far corner of the monastery yard, washing hung on lines stretching from wall to wall-shirts with heavy sodden sleeves, peach-colored tablecloths, badly wrung out and crookedly fastened sheets.†   (source)
  • In case of emergency there was a way of escape through a trap door to an underground passage that came out in a lonely alley at the back of the monastery.†   (source)
  • "Nevertheless," said the monk, "all life being one, in this monastery all do practice the doctrine of ahimsa and refrain from taking life of any sort."†   (source)
  • The following morning, a small man approached the monastery and seated himself before its front entrance, placing a begging bowl on the ground at his feet.†   (source)
  • But out here, in the street, these comfortless reflections flew at her in clusters, and she could deal with all of them together, in the short while it took her to walk a few times from the monastery gate to the corner of the square and back.†   (source)
  • The monastery from which they had departed was only partly visible above the upper reaches of the treetops; high in the air above it, a twisting line of smoke endorsed the heavens.†   (source)
  • Mounting the monastery roof, he proceeded to scale the tower, moving from brick to slippery brick, from projection to irregularity, the heavens growling doglike above him, until finally he clung to the wall just below the outer sill.†   (source)
  • "Lord Yama," he stated, "while it may hold for a week, a month — possibly even longer-this story will come apart in the hands of the Master to judge the first of any of those here present in this monastery who pass within the Halls of Karma.†   (source)
  • It was in the days of the rains that their prayers went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri, goddess of the Night The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes…†   (source)
  • In the light of a candle it looked as comfortless as a prison or a monastic cell.†   (source)
  • So he planned to be quit of the world and enter the monastic order of the Cistercians.†   (source)
  • There were two beds separated by a monastic partition.†   (source)
  • There was, God knows, seclusion enough for monastic scholarship, but the rare romantic quality of the atmosphere, the prodigal opulence of Springtime, thick with flowers and drenched in a fragrant warmth of green shimmering light, quenched pretty thoroughly any incipient rash of bookishness.†   (source)
  • A monastic-puritanical, world-negating ethical system then radically and immediately transfigures all the images of myth.†   (source)
  • He had spent three years of monastic rigor at Valhalla, Gilbert's house, under the tuition of a Mr. Lawson and of Gilbert himself.†   (source)
  • The Dissolution of the Monasteries ….†   (source)
  • The monks in the two monasteries of the town had been evacuated and lodged for the time being with religiousminded families.†   (source)
  • …from behind the smiling while the lawyer did the heavy father even, talking about the scholarship, the culture, the Latin and the Greek that would equip and polish him for the position which he would hold in life and how a man to be sure could get that anywhere, in his own library even, who had the will; but how there was something, some quality to culture which only the monastic, the cloistral monotony of a—say obscure and small (though high class, high class) college, —and he—†   (source)
  • He snuggled up to Life, to keep warm perhaps, for he didn't have any life of his own—just the office, the knife, the monastic room.†   (source)
  • They had the idea of making him a sort of under-porter; there are usually a few odd hangers-on in a religious house, you know; people who can't quite fit in either to the world or the monastic rule.†   (source)
  • It was not the first monastic institution Conway had inspected, but it was easily the largest and, apart from its situation, the most remarkable.†   (source)
  • Two brass bedsteads, a single chair and a wardrobe - the room was monastic, except that there was no cross - no 'inessentials' as Mr Lehr would have put it.†   (source)
  • In the cellars of the monasteries the butlers were tapping new and old ale, mead, port, claree, dry sherry, hock, beer, metheglyn, perry, hippocras, and the best white whisky.†   (source)
  • As soon as his visit to his father is over Mr. Samgrass will pick him up and they will go together to the Levant, where Mr. Samgrass has long been anxious to investigate a number of orthodox monasteries.†   (source)
  • …and cold detachment, the exposures brief, so brief as to be cryptic, almost staccato, the plate unaware of what the complete picture would show, scarce-seen yet ineradicable: —a trap, a riding horse standing before a closed and curiously monastic doorway in a neighborhood a little decadent, even a little sinister, and Bon mentioning the owner's name casually—this, corruption subtly anew by putting into Henry's mind the notion of one man of the world speaking to another, that Henry…†   (source)
  • After I'd gone on questioning him for a time, he said: 'Frankly, I'm not keen on monasteries--indeed, I once told a fellow I met in Tibet that if I went out of my way at all, it would be to avoid them, not pay them a visit.'†   (source)
  • He had come out of the poverty of the cabin and the monastic regime of Valhalla and the responsibilities of his own little plantation; and he was tall and strong, and to judge from the photographs, well favored, with the burning dark eyes.†   (source)
  • Here, round the King's castle, there were streets—not just one street—and castles of dependent barons, and monasteries, chapels, churches, cathedrals, markets, merchants' houses.†   (source)
  • …laid eyes on one another yet who since had slept in the same room and eaten side by side of the same food and used the same books from which to prepare to recite in the same freshman courses, facing one another across the lamplit table on which lay the fragile pandora's box of scrawled paper which had filled with violent and unratiocinative djinns and demons this snug monastic coign, this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought "Just don't bother," Shreve said.†   (source)
  • For there, under the window in Arthur's Gramarye, the sun's rays flamed from a hundred jewels of stained glass in monasteries and convents, or danced from the pinnacles of cathedrals and castles, which their builders had actually loved.†   (source)
  • Some day these dull market-towns may be as obsolete as monasteries.†   (source)
  • Why, the rooms were made just like these old monasteries.†   (source)
  • It had an austere, almost monastic appearance.†   (source)
  • Something of monastic rigidity dignified her face.†   (source)
  • Still the same austere, monastic appearance.†   (source)
  • Such are the ancient monasteries of Spain.†   (source)
  • Though he wore the monastic dress it was voluntarily, not to be different from others.†   (source)
  • I have been in three monasteries, but they told me, 'Go, Nastasya, go to them'—that is to you.†   (source)
  • That is why in many of our monasteries the institution was at first resisted almost to persecution.†   (source)
  • It traced its origin to an abbey school, founded before the Conquest, where the rudiments of learning were taught by Augustine monks; and, like many another establishment of this sort, on the destruction of the monasteries it had been reorganised by the officers of King Henry VIII and thus acquired its name.†   (source)
  • "The Abbot Pafnute lived in the fourteenth century," began the prince; "he was in charge of one of the monasteries on the Volga, about where our present Kostroma government lies.†   (source)
  • Not with more of self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.†   (source)
  • They had rambled round by a road which led to the well-known ruins of the Cistercian abbey behind the mill, the latter having, in centuries past, been attached to the monastic establishment.†   (source)
  • …was a member, had gone forth from its gates to achieve fame; it had produced one or two eminent lawyers, but eminent lawyers are common, and one or two soldiers of distinction; but during the three centuries since its separation from the monastic order it had trained especially men of the church, bishops, deans, canons, and above all country clergymen: there were boys in the school whose fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, had been educated there and had all been rectors of…†   (source)
  • Life was both stylish and monastic.†   (source)
  • "It's kind of a mis'able return to monasteries," grumbled Terry, "except that we're not trying to solve anything for anybody but our own fool selves.†   (source)
  • With his glowing eyes, his waxen pallor, his black beard, and those monastic sandals over gray woolen socks, he seemed to symbolize in his person the battle between chastity and passion about which he had been speaking.†   (source)
  • In novels, these truth-seekers quested the "secret of life" in laboratories which did not seem to be provided with Bunsen flames or reagents; or they went, at great expense and much discomfort from hot trains and undesirable snakes, to Himalayan monasteries, to learn from unaseptic sages that the Mind can do all sorts of edifying things if one will but spend thirty or forty years in eating rice and gazing on one's navel.†   (source)
  • A pretty maid in an apron might be even more agreeable, perhaps; but for your severe monastic style it does very well.†   (source)
  • Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church?†   (source)
  • "I beg your Majesty's pardon," returned Balashev, "besides Russia there is Spain, where there are also many churches and monasteries."†   (source)
  • I went afterwards to see Mother Catherine, who has a very good room too; I assure you I don't find the poor sisters at all monastic.†   (source)
  • An extern school grew round the old almost monastic foundation, which subsists still with its middle-age costume and usages—and all Cistercians pray that it may long flourish.†   (source)
  • The coasts of the ocean have farms and cities and country-seats, and, in some parts of the world, castles and monasteries and lighthouses—ay, ay—lighthouses, in particular, on them; not one of all which things is to be seen here.†   (source)
  • " "You forget, Fanny, how lately all this has been built, and for how confined a purpose, compared with the old chapels of castles and monasteries.†   (source)
  • The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.†   (source)
  • The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows, viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvellous temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture.†   (source)
  • 'Very fat; but I perceived in a little his mind was wholly given up to useless things—such as devils and charms and the form and fashion of our tea-drinkings in the monasteries, and by what road we initiated the novices.†   (source)
  • "But a large number of monasteries and churches is always a sign of the backwardness of a people," said Napoleon, turning to Caulaincourt for appreciation of this remark.†   (source)
  • Pale, heavy-browed, almost haggard with a sort of monastic rigidity in her dress, she had little but her pure features in common with the woman whose radiant good grace he had hitherto admired.†   (source)
  • Let them speak the doom which I despise, and erase the name of Bois-Guilbert from their list of monastic slaves!†   (source)
  • The two friends met her in the corridor, greatly troubled and much upset by such strange events; she called some of the nuns, who against all monastic custom found themselves in the presence of five men.†   (source)
  • Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.†   (source)
  • Should you be so rigid in adhering to monastic rule," he added, "as to prefer your acid preparation of milk, I hope you will not strain courtesy to do me reason."†   (source)
  • Resistance was vain; and they were compelled to follow to a large room, which, rising on clumsy Saxon pillars, resembled those refectories and chapter-houses which may be still seen in the most ancient parts of our most ancient monasteries.†   (source)
  • Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where centres of labor should exist.†   (source)
  • The obligations due to an elder are not the ordinary "obedience" which has always existed in our Russian monasteries.†   (source)
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