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The monks at the abbey followed a strict schedule of prayer, work, and study.abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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After years of dedicated service to the church, she retired to a quiet abbey in the countryside.
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More than three thousand people are entombed or enshrined within Westminster Abbey. (source)Abbey = church
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You can't deny he invited every heretic he could lay hands on to preach in the Abbey. (source)
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In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all.† (source)abbeys = buildings where monks or nuns live or lived
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By the way, Mr Malone, those two houses you mentioned—the abbeys.† (source)
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Richard would ask at dinner, and I would dutifully recite, ticking off one building or park or statue after another: the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Kensington, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament.† (source)Abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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There were a great many abbeys, of a beauty more devout, of a grandeur more solemn than the mansions, but not less beautiful, not less grand.† (source)abbeys = buildings where monks or nuns live or lived
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Lea Abbey, you have been matched with Joseph Peterson.† (source)Abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.† (source)abbeys = buildings where monks or nuns live or lived
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A memorial will be held tomorrow at the Rosewood Abbey and will be open to the public.† (source)Abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney—and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill.† (source)abbeys = buildings where monks or nuns live or lived
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And inside the front cover there was a big map of London with places on it like Abbey Wood and Poplar and Acton and Stanmore.† (source)Abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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Cathedrals, chapels, tabernacles, abbeys, monasteries, convents, parochial schools ....† (source)abbeys = buildings where monks or nuns live or lived
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I walk around the graveyard in the old abbey at Mungret where my mother's relations are buried and I go up the boreen to the Norman castle at Carrigogunnell where Dad brought me twice.† (source)abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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In the scriptoria of the abbeys, and in the castles of the great nobles, the harmless writers scribbled away at Missals and Treatises of Knighthood, while the limners illuminated the capital letters and carefully drew blazons of arms.† (source)abbeys = buildings where monks or nuns live or lived
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A lot of us are like that, I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. (source)Abbey = untracked name in this novel
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When Edward Abbey was writing The Monkey Wrench Gang, his picaresque novel about eco-terrorism in the canyon country, his pal Ken Sleight was said to have inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith. (source)
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