Sample Sentences for
monastery
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    As August reached down inside the box for the labels, I studied the return address: Holy Virgin Monastery Gift Shop, Post Office Box 45, St. Paul, Minnesota.  (source)
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    If you wanted to be merciful, you should have gone to a monastery.  (source)
    monastery = residence of a religious community
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    What's the routine on joining a monastery?  (source)
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    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)
    monastery = residence of a religious community
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    Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.†  (source)
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    Chinese explorers wrote stories of how there were 1,400 Buddhist monasteries along the banks of the River Swat, and the magical sound of temple bells would ring out across the valley.  (source)
    monasteries = residences of religious communities
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    Although his familiarity with art did not include woodworking or inlaid furniture, he had just recalled the famous tiled ceiling of the Spanish monastery outside of Madrid, where, three centuries after its construction, the ceiling tiles began to fall out, revealing sacred texts scrawled by monks on the plaster beneath.  (source)
    monastery = residence of a religious community
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    Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations.†  (source)
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    From then on, monasteries had the monopoly of education, reflection, and meditation.†  (source)
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    Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery sits on a large, shaded property.†  (source)
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    I preferred to think that the rooms we searched were more haphazard and less revealing than Owen imagined—after all, they were supposed to be the monastic cells of transient scholars; they were something between a nest and a hotel room, they were not natural abodes, and what we found there was a random disorder and a depressing sameness.†  (source)
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    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)
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    If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years.†  (source)
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