All 50 Uses of
monk
in
Oliver Twist
- 'Monks, do you mean?' inquired the landlord, hesitating.†
Chpt 26 *
- They might have been talking, thus, for a quarter of an hour or more, when Monks—by which name the Jew had designated the strange man several times in the course of their colloquy—said, raising his voice a little, 'I tell you again, it was badly planned.†
Chpt 26
- 'Why, do you mean to say you couldn't have done it, if you had chosen?' demanded Monks, sternly.†
Chpt 26
- 'Mine,' replied Monks.†
Chpt 26
- 'What then?' demanded Monks.†
Chpt 26
- 'That was not my doing,' observed Monks.†
Chpt 26
- 'Throttle the girl!' said Monks, impatiently.†
Chpt 26
- I know what these girls are, Monks, well.†
Chpt 26
- 'I'll swear I saw it!' replied Monks, trembling.†
Chpt 26
- This accumulated testimony effectually staggered Mr. Monks.†
Chpt 26
- 'Monks!' rejoined the man; and strode hastily, away.†
Chpt 37
- CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MR. MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW It was a dull, close, overcast summer evening.†
Chpt 38
- Mr. Bumble, who had eyed the building with very rueful looks, was apparently about to express some doubts relative to the advisability of proceeding any further with the enterprise just then, when he was prevented by the appearance of Monks: who opened a small door, near which they stood, and beckoned them inwards.†
Chpt 38
- 'What the devil made you stand lingering there, in the wet?' said Monks, turning round, and addressing Bumble, after he had bolted the door behind them.†
Chpt 38
- 'Cooling yourselves!' retorted Monks.†
Chpt 38
- With this agreeable speech, Monks turned short upon the matron, and bent his gaze upon her, till even she, who was not easily cowed, was fain to withdraw her eyes, and turn them towards the ground.†
Chpt 38
- 'This is the woman, is it?' demanded Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'You think women never can keep secrets, I suppose?' said the matron, interposing, and returning, as she spoke, the searching look of Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'I know they will always keep one till it's found out,' said Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'The loss of their own good name,' replied Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'Of course you don't!' said Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'These fits come over me, now and then,' said Monks, observing his alarm; 'and thunder sometimes brings them on.†
Chpt 38
- 'Now,' said Monks, when they had all three seated themselves, 'the sooner we come to our business, the better for all.†
Chpt 38
- 'The first question is, of what nature was her communication?' said Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'Who the devil can tell that, without knowing of what kind it is?' asked Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'Humph!' said Monks significantly, and with a look of eager inquiry; 'there may be money's worth to get, eh?'†
Chpt 38
- 'Something that was taken from her,' said Monks.†
Chpt 38
- Mr. Bumble, who had not yet been admitted by his better half into any greater share of the secret than he had originally possessed, listened to this dialogue with outstretched neck and distended eyes: which he directed towards his wife and Monks, by turns, in undisguised astonishment; increased, if possible, when the latter sternly demanded, what sum was required for the disclosure.†
Chpt 38
- 'It may be nothing; it may be twenty pounds,' replied Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'Five-and-twenty pounds!' exclaimed Monks, drawing back.†
Chpt 38
- 'Not a large sum for a paltry secret, that may be nothing when it's told!' cried Monks impatiently; 'and which has been lying dead for twelve years past or more!'†
Chpt 38
- 'What if I pay it for nothing?' asked Monks, hesitating.†
Chpt 38
- Monks is too much of a gentleman to attempt any violence on porochial persons.†
Chpt 38
- Mr. Monks is aware that I am not a young man, my dear, and also that I am a little run to seed, as I may say; bu he has heerd: I say I have no doubt Mr. Monks has heerd, my dear: that I am a very determined officer, with very uncommon strength, if I'm once roused.†
Chpt 38
- Mr. Monks is aware that I am not a young man, my dear, and also that I am a little run to seed, as I may say; bu he has heerd: I say I have no doubt Mr. Monks has heerd, my dear: that I am a very determined officer, with very uncommon strength, if I'm once roused.†
Chpt 38
- 'He had better have cut it out, before he came, if he can't speak in a lower tone,' said Monks, grimly.†
Chpt 38
- 'I thought as much, when you came in,' rejoined Monks, marking the angry glance which the lady darted at her spouse as she spoke.†
Chpt 38
- The thunder, which seemed in fact much nearer, and to shiver and break almost over their heads, having subsided, Monks, raising his face from the table, bent forward to listen to what the woman should say.†
Chpt 38
- 'Was there no one by?' asked Monks, in the same hollow whisper; 'No sick wretch or idiot in some other bed?†
Chpt 38
- 'Good,' said Monks, regarding her attentively.†
Chpt 38
- 'Ay?' said Monks, with quivering lip, and glancing over his shoulder, 'Blood!†
Chpt 38
- 'In life?' asked Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'She sold it,' cried Monks, with desperate eagerness; 'did she sell it?†
Chpt 38
- 'Without saying more?' cried Monks, in a voice which, from its very suppression, seemed only the more furious.†
Chpt 38
- 'Which contained—' interposed Monks, stretching forward.†
Chpt 38
- 'For what?' demanded Monks.†
Chpt 38
- 'Where is it now?' asked Monks quickly.†
Chpt 38
- And, as if glad to be relieved of it, she hastily threw upon the table a small kid bag scarcely large enough for a French watch, which Monks pouncing upon, tore open with trembling hands.†
Chpt 38
- 'And this is all?' said Monks, after a close and eager scrutiny of the contents of the little packet.†
Chpt 38
- 'I know nothing of the story, beyond what I can guess at,' said his wife addressing Monks, after a short silence; 'and I want to know nothing; for it's safer not.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience