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- He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory.† (source)
- In addition to the refectory, on the second floor are two small rooms where up to ten women share four beds.† (source)
- At nights in the refectory we sit with our hands in our laps and stare at the radio, our small, harsh master.† (source)
- Weeks later Edgar picked up a copy of Time on her way out of the refectory and there she saw it, a large color photo of a white-haired woman seated in a director's chair beneath the old weathered wing of an Air Force bomber.† (source)
- Great splashes of sunlight as we ran up the wooden steps of the refectory.† (source)
- Aram seated himself at the long table in the refectory, across from several of the Buddha's monks.† (source)
- Captain Walker took her brother's arm and they followed their parents down to the refectory.† (source)
- New silk banners hang above the refectory tables, ablaze with slogans.† (source)
- The monks were seated upon the floor of the refectory.† (source)
- Sunday mornings in the refectory, they sit quietly in a sunbeam and Werner helps him with his schoolwork.† (source)
- The lights in the refectory dim, a projector whirs, and a chart full of circles appears on the far wall.† (source)
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- Every six or seven days, the same two pallid casualty assistance officers enter the refectory, and four hundred faces go ashen from the effort of not turning to watch.† (source)
- Until now he has seen radios only in glimpses: a big cabinet wireless through the lace curtains of an official's house; a portable unit in a miners' dormitory; another in the church refectory.† (source)
- "You have minds," Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant's finger grazes the back of his uniform.† (source)
- They hustle through the gates together, gulp fried eggs in the refectory together, march across the quadrangle, perform roll call, salute the colors, shoot rifles, run, bathe, and suffer together.† (source)
- The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action.† (source)
- Edgar sits across from Gracie in the refectory She eats her food without tasting it because she decided years ago that taste is not the point.† (source)
- He suggested I should go to the refectory for dinner, but I wasn't hungry.† (source)
- Friar Baltazar was from a religious house in Spain which was noted for good living, and he himself had worked in the refectory.† (source)
- This done, he repaired to his loggia and sat down to read his breviary, which he had neglected for several days, having been so occupied in the refectory.† (source)
- Certainly the visiting missionaries had never sat down to food like that which rejoiced them to-day in the cool refectory, the blinds open just enough to admit a streak of throbbing desert far below them.† (source)
- Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.† (source)
- Come presently To the refectory, I'll make you drink A famous bowl of soup….† (source)
- Then he heard the noise of the refectory every time he opened the flaps of his ears.† (source)
- Ha, ha—excuse me for laughing, I was just thinking about your calling our dining hall a refectory.† (source)
- Three days' silence in the refectory and sending us up for six and eight every minute.† (source)
- The refectory was half empty and the fellows were still passing out in file.† (source)
- In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, backed up by the cloisters and the church.† (source)
- And it is now well-nigh the fitting time to summon the brethren to breakfast in the refectory—Ah!† (source)
- There was a rule at the school that the pupils were not to speak when they walked through the garden from the chapel to the refectory.† (source)
- I had indeed begun to suspect that you had departed when I saw your place vacant down in the refectory.† (source)
- There was a medieval magnificence about it: it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with its oaken panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory table where twoscore men could sit down to eat.† (source)
- Apparently, when the victorious fifteen or eleven came into the refectory for supper, the whole school jumped upon the tables and cheered and broke the chairs on the floor and smashed the crockery—for a given time, until the Reverend Mother rang a hand-bell.† (source)
- He took his excellent meals in a huge refectory, where the rule of silence reigned—which was also the case in the corridors—and where a young prefect sat at his lectern in the middle of the room, high above the diners, and read to them.† (source)
- Ha, ha—'refectory'?† (source)
- He could go up the staircase because there was never a priest or a prefect outside the refectory door.† (source)
- The bell rang and then the classes began to file out of the rooms and along the corridors towards the refectory.† (source)
- It was like a train going in and out of tunnels and that was like the noise of the boys eating in the refectory when you opened and closed the flaps of the ears.† (source)
- —It's a stinking mean thing, that's what it is, said Fleming in the corridor as the classes were passing out in file to the refectory, to pandy a fellow for what is not his fault.† (source)
- Then the higher line fellows began to come down along the matting in the middle of the refectory, Paddy Rath and Jimmy Magee and the Spaniard who was allowed to smoke cigars and the little Portuguese who wore the woolly cap.† (source)
- Simon Moonan had nice clothes and one night he had shown him a ball of creamy sweets that the fellows of the football fifteen had rolled down to him along the carpet in the middle of the refectory when he was at the door.† (source)
- He heard the fellows of the higher line stand up at the top of the refectory and heard their steps as they came down the matting: Paddy Rath and Jimmy Magee and the Spaniard and the Portuguese and the fifth was big Corrigan who was going to be flogged by Mr Gleeson.† (source)
- It was wrong; it was unfair and cruel; and, as he sat in the refectory, he suffered time after time in memory the same humiliation until he began to wonder whether it might not really be that there was something in his face which made him look like a schemer and he wished he had a little mirror to see.† (source)
- This dear fellow, with the finest cut face I ever saw, a face in perfect drawing, leaves some laborious life and comes up here I don't know how many feet above the level of the sea, for no other purpose on earth (except enjoying himself, I hope, in a capital refectory) than to keep an hotel for idle poor devils like you and me, and leave the bill to our consciences!† (source)
- Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom.† (source)
- But here is a Guydo—the frame alone is worth pounds—which any lady might be proud to hang up—a suitable thing for what we call a refectory in a charitable institution, if any gentleman of the Corporation wished to show his munifi_cence_.† (source)
- …galleries, baths, vapor-baths, and other "superfluous places," with which each apartment was provided; not to mention the private gardens for each of the king's guests; not to mention the kitchens, the cellars, the domestic offices, the general refectories of the house, the poultry-yards, where there were twenty-two general laboratories, from the bakehouses to the wine-cellars; games of a thousand sorts, malls, tennis, and riding at the ring; aviaries, fishponds, menageries, stables,…† (source)
- The nooks of ruin where the old monks had once had their refectories and gardens, and where the strong walls were now pressed into the service of humble sheds and stables, were almost as silent as the old monks in their graves.† (source)
- …considerable time to himself, yet I had never seen him reading—no, not even a newspaper; that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall; I was quite sure he never visited any refectory or eating house; while his pale face clearly indicated that he never drank beer like Turkey, or tea and coffee even, like other men; that he never went any where in particular that I could learn; never went out for a walk, unless indeed…† (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)
- From the refectory the names had passed to the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin to distinguish four nations.† (source)
- He was a youth of even temperament, who played in playtime, worked in school-hours, was attentive in class, slept well in the dormitory, and ate well in the refectory.† (source)
- It is certain that this monastery, which had a grand air, both as a church and as a seignory; that abbatial palace, where the bishops of Paris counted themselves happy if they could pass the night; that refectory, upon which the architect had bestowed the air, the beauty, and the rose window of a cathedral; that elegant chapel of the Virgin; that monumental dormitory; those vast gardens; that portcullis; that drawbridge; that envelope of battlements which notched to the eye the verdure…† (source)
- Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and all were gone into the refectory to tea.† (source)
- Far from being bored at first at the convent, she took pleasure in the society of the good sisters, who, to amuse her, took her to the chapel, which one entered from the refectory by a long corridor.† (source)
- The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting.† (source)
- "I see," said he, "thou dreamest already that our men-at-arms are in thy refectory and thy ale-vaults.† (source)
- Patronized by the clergy, because she belonged to an ancient family of noblemen ruined by the Revolution, she dined in the refectory at the table of the good sisters, and after the meal had a bit of chat with them before going back to her work.† (source)
- Every pupil belonged to one of these four nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at meals.† (source)
- Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory.† (source)
- So the Prior of Saint Botolph's hobbled back again into the refectory, to preside over the stockfish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars' breakfast.† (source)
- The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.† (source)
- A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the garden.† (source)
- Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the white Paternoster, and which possessed the property of bearing people straight to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:— "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God placed in paradise.† (source)
- The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts.† (source)
- Restored to its normal identity as a refectory, enormous cauldrons of porridge were being dispensed, together with bannocks baked on the hearth and spread with molasses.† (source)
- Returning from the refectory a bit later, I spotted a trim figure in the black robes of a Franciscan, crossing the courtyard toward the cloister.† (source)
- …Lynch's castle, the Scotch house, Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown, Tullamore jail, Castleconnel rapids, Kilballymacshonakill, the cross at Monasterboice, Jury's Hotel, S. Patrick's Purgatory, the Salmon Leap, Maynooth college refectory, Curley's hole, the three birthplaces of the first duke of Wellington, the rock of Cashel, the bog of Allen, the Henry Street Warehouse, Fingal's Cave—all these moving scenes are still there for us today rendered more beautiful still by…† (source)
- The hour therefore having arrived they all took their seats at a long table like a refectory one, for round or square table there was none in the inn, and the seat of honour at the head of it, though he was for refusing it, they assigned to Don Quixote, who desired the lady Micomicona to place herself by his side, as he was her protector.† (source)
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