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  • He'd recently happened across an article describing a man named Gregor Mendel—a Czechoslovakian monk, of all things—who had done some very interesting experiments with peas.†   (source)
  • None of my friends will believe I suddenly turned into a monk to date you.†   (source)
  • It got to the point where one of the monks asked the abbot whether I was having mental health issues.†   (source)
  • The sandstone cliffs were home to Buddhist monks who carved caves in them to use as living quarters and as sanctuary for weary traveling pilgrims.†   (source)
  • Dear God, I offer up to you this work I do today.... Crouching in the shadows of the choir balcony high above the altar, Sister Sandrine peered silently through the balustrade at the cloaked monk kneeling alone.†   (source)
  • Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.†   (source)
  • If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost.†   (source)
  • Tom and Monk started surfing together as little kids, around age thirteen and fourteen, in the summer of 1962.†   (source)
  • When the monks cut open her body, they found inside a large white winter melon.†   (source)
  • When he'd checked the doors of the Monk Building at noon, they were locked.†   (source)
  • I see night women in doorways, monks chanting vespers, and here is the great boom of Big Ben, This is the BBC Overseas Service and here is the news.†   (source)
  • When she was eighteen, Baby Kochamma fell in love with a handsome young Irish monk, Father Mulligan, who was in Kerala for a year on deputation from his seminary in Madras.†   (source)
  • The monk who sold her to me said some of her kind live to be twenty or thirty years old.†   (source)
  • That actor was white, and that character was a monk.†   (source)
  • I know he loved me by the way he devoted himself to my care, but he was forty-three when he had me, and part of me thinks my dad would have been better suited to being a monk than a parent.†   (source)
  • We'd drowse off in each other's arms, listening to music from my iPod (Thelonious Monk, the Velvet Underground, music my mother had liked) and sometimes wake clutching each other like castaways or much younger children.†   (source)
  • Eragon dodged through a kitchen, passed a pair of monks, then slipped through a side door.†   (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)
  • His room was austere, almost monkish.†   (source)
  • ...the monk?†   (source)
  • Only priests and monks read the Bible because it only existed in Latin.†   (source)
  • There is the goodness of the child which is innocence, and then there is the goodness of the monk who has given up everything to others and lives a life of self-deprivation and service.†   (source)
  • The clothes he'd been wearing earlier were flung across the covers, but the rest of the room was neat as a monk's chamber.†   (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)
  • People like Art Farmer and Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane and Lenny Bruce would stop by when they were in town.†   (source)
  • My classmates were spinning their fantasies for the future: lawyer, ethnobotanist, Buddhist monk (it was a very progressive high school).†   (source)
  • When we were back in Buddy's room, which reminded me of nothing so much as a monk's cell, with its bare walls and bare bed and bare floor and the desk loaded with Gray's Anatomy and other thick gruesome books, Buddy lit a candle and uncorked a bottle of Dubonnet.†   (source)
  • In his own handwriting he set down a concise synthesis of the studies by Monk Hermann.†   (source)
  • I love imagining all the monks inside, doing the same things day after day.†   (source)
  • Monks who do not speak.†   (source)
  • The gray light, coming in through the monk's-cloth blinds, would, with the malice of the noncommittal, be examining every surface, corner, angle, of the unloved room.†   (source)
  • The traveling had been brutal, as hard as any on earth—roads didn't exist, bridges were gone, the maps must have been drawn by a blind monk, the people spoke languages not even the native translators could understand, and the expedition had not been able to find enough food and water.†   (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)
  • So I get on the tube feeling serene and impervious, like a Buddhist monk.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Monk," I called out, and he sprang up, trotting down the driveway.†   (source)
  • It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he'd actually won anything.†   (source)
  • Mackay told us that the Children's Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves.†   (source)
  • A tall monk passed, his face buried entirely inside a coarse gray cowl, even the eyes hidden.†   (source)
  • Instead of walking steadily on or even eating, I faded into dreams about the meat meals my mother used to cook, my monk's food forgotten.†   (source)
  • The cot in his jail cell wasn't fit for a monk.†   (source)
  • Monk was in charge of that.†   (source)
  • When a fire truck tries to get close enough to drench the monk with water, other monks throw their bodies beneath its wheels to stop it.†   (source)
  • She has a monk's tranquillity.†   (source)
  • But even before the first of the essays appeared, he let it be known that while he understood the reasons for the revolution in France—the oppressive abuses of the government, the overbearing and costly "armies of monks, soldiers, and courtiers"—and though he strongly supported the ideals espoused by French patriots, he viewed the situation with dire misgivings.†   (source)
  • Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, No.†   (source)
  • These are the writings of Augustine of Hippo, a monk who grew great in his theology long ago on Africa's Barbary Coast.†   (source)
  • We've had a secret, passionate affair for the last three years, during which time I bore him a son who's being raised on the far side of the moon by Buddhist monks.†   (source)
  • Thais went about their daily business, some teetering along on bicycle carts that would unfold into frying stands, others piloting dump trucks, still others strolling in the orange garb of monks.†   (source)
  • John Monks, Jr., quoting a Marine on Bougainville, described what night was like: "From seven o'clock in the evening till dawn, with only centipedes and lizards and scorpions and mosquitoes begging to get acquainted—wet, cold, exhausted, but unable to sleep—you lay there and shivered and thought and hated and prayed.†   (source)
  • The kind of luck I have, I'd probably join one with all the wrong kind of monks in it.†   (source)
  • San Francisco society women wearing black velvet giggled at jokes told by Tibetan Buddhist monks draped in cinnamon-colored robes.†   (source)
  • I look around, glimpsing the simple, almost monkish furnishings of a dining room and sitting room before the slaver grabs a fistful of my hair and pulls on it so hard I think my neck will break.†   (source)
  • By time I came along, most everybody in Banks County thought General Tweedy had been a high monkity-monk in the Army of the Confederacy instead of just in the home guard.†   (source)
  • It can occur to a monk in meditation, to a soldier in heavy combat or to a machinist taking off that last ten-thousandth of an inch.†   (source)
  • It was as it always was, the hooded figure of a man in a monk's habit.†   (source)
  • Monks haven't the sort of patience required.†   (source)
  • It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.†   (source)
  • The remains of five thousand monks were used to build the Chapel of Bones.†   (source)
  • No. Fifty-five thousand monks live there.†   (source)
  • Oh, we had a perfect case all right, but the man who presided at the trial was Judge Narragansett, one of those old-fashioned monks of the bench who thinks like a mathematician and never feels the human side of anything.†   (source)
  • When I was born, a blind, Buddhist monk, living alone in the Burmese jungle, predicted that my birth would bring great prosperity to the family.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be a monk for a while.†   (source)
  • My husband had also hired several monks, who performed rites to help lead my father-in-law—and, we hoped, all those who had died in the epidemic—to a happy existence in the spirit world.†   (source)
  • Yours, Dad (Mike Monk)†   (source)
  • I think the Brits kicked out the monks, as they were wont, then, as they were wont, the Cromwellians did the rest and sacked the place.†   (source)
  • The surrounding woods were full of motionless monk trees, which had taken vows of silence.†   (source)
  • Now he makes me sound like some sort of monk, and I don't think I like that any better.†   (source)
  • We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks.†   (source)
  • Italian monks who became enamoured of certain aunts would return to Italy to discard their robes and return to find the women already married.†   (source)
  • In order to do that, we'd have to break down and talk about things that were more significant than font size in online newspapers and his fevered delusions about his time studying telekinesis with a group of monks in a Himalayan ice cave.†   (source)
  • Another about a monk hiking a mountain.†   (source)
  • She's a girl who dates guys like Ryan Cross, baseball star, and sits with Amanda Monk and the other queen bees at lunch.†   (source)
  • This is a story about another monk holding himself up valiantly in the posture of endurance.†   (source)
  • I'd be like a monk, and able to relive the walk and get down to writing about it.†   (source)
  • Do you think they sit like monks in London, balancing the rights and wrongs?†   (source)
  • Finally one day he noticed a front page story in the Times, complete with AP wirephoto, about a Buddhist monk in Viet Nam who had set himself on fire to protest government policies.†   (source)
  • Like a monk, you mean?†   (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)
  • This monk located a priest and passed the information to him.†   (source)
  • She had been conscious for a long time of the paleness of her skin, but on this morning a glance in the bathroom mirror truly horrified her, brought her close to panic: her face was as devoid of any of the animating pink of life as those bleached skulls of ancient monks she recalled from the underground sepulcher of an Italian church.†   (source)
  • ANNIE: Spanish monks under a—vow of silence.†   (source)
  • (To the monkey) Shield your eyes, monk†   (source)
  • You've heard about mad medieval nuns and monks turned rapist.†   (source)
  • He isn't even a man-he's a half-wit of some sort, a monk or a hermit.†   (source)
  • His grey hair is thin with a bald spot like a monk's tonsure.†   (source)
  • "Why listen, lady," he said with a grin of delight, "the monks of old slept in their coffins!"†   (source)
  • They had titles like The Life and Letters of Silenus or Nymphs and Their Ways or Men, Monks, and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend or Is Man a Myth?†   (source)
  • And this was terrible, for their words had great influence on young monks who were not yet firm in their convictions.   (source)
    monks = male members of a religious order  living together and devoting themselves to contemplation, prayer and work
  • "Farewell!" cried the knight, popping his head into a painting of some sinister-looking monks.†   (source)
  • There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible.†   (source)
  • The two monks were quiet as they cleaned and oiled the machine gun.†   (source)
  • The try-anything was the spells and chants of rogue monks.†   (source)
  • I had less interest in women than the monks around me.†   (source)
  • The monks, Babi said, painted beautiful frescoes along the walls and roofs of their caves.†   (source)
  • "At one point," he said, "there were five thousand monks living as hermits in these caves."†   (source)
  • Many of the monks in this temple are worldlier than me.†   (source)
  • Beside him, the two monks were working on the M-60.†   (source)
  • His robe was not the sand-colored cotton of most wandering monks I had seen.†   (source)
  • Each morning the two monks brought us buckets of water.†   (source)
  • Though they were kind to all of us, the monks took a special liking for Henry Dobbins.†   (source)
  • For some reason they're always way better fighters than monks who can see.†   (source)
  • Or I paint in egg tempera, the technique of monks.†   (source)
  • Perhaps your chambers would look good decorated with the skulls of monks.†   (source)
  • Mortenson had lived with monkish frugality since his return from Pakistan.†   (source)
  • As they got out of the car, bells began to ring, calling the monks to prayer.†   (source)
  • "The monks are practiced in precisely this kind of distinction," he added.†   (source)
  • Edgar liked seeing the monks in the street.†   (source)
  • He twisted hard but two monks had him by the waist.†   (source)
  • In the months that follow, other monks will also martyr themselves.†   (source)
  • Not Gracie or the monks or the agile writers in Ismael's crew.†   (source)
  • Another group of monks filed in from the east, several bearing lighted candles protected by glass.†   (source)
  • The monks remove it from Due's chest cavity and place it on display in a glass chalice.†   (source)
  • Three monks in gray cloaks and rope belts worked in an anteroom, getting the day's shipment ready.†   (source)
  • She pointed toward a crowd of monks gathered at the center of the park.†   (source)
  • But inside the strew of rubble she was a natural sight, she and the robed monks.†   (source)
  • I always think they were composed by fat monks.†   (source)
  • I have instructed the monks to come to my aid, here at this place, if they hear a cry for help.†   (source)
  • Adorning this monkish cell, it might have been the portrait of Christ.†   (source)
  • I knelt in the chapel balcony, looking down on ninety white-robed monks.†   (source)
  • When the last echoes died to silence the monks filed out.†   (source)
  • Let him have his way and he'll turn you all into monks-eunuchs.†   (source)
  • He continued to speak, and some of the other monks and several pilgrims gathered about him.†   (source)
  • "Build a pyre and burn this body," he said to the monks, not turning toward them.†   (source)
  • He moved past the monks, following a well-beaten path that led far into the interior of the wood.†   (source)
  • In the purple grove beyond the town, the monks turned their heads.†   (source)
  • This is what occurred....The wandering monks of the Enlightened One were visiting at the time.†   (source)
  • That evening, Aram attended the community hour of the monks.†   (source)
  • Two dark-robed monks entered through the archway.†   (source)
  • The rows of monks were seated, as in meditation, before him.†   (source)
  • I like the thought of the god of death being saved by the monks of Buddha.†   (source)
  • "These monks have witnessed a strange and terrible thing," he continued.†   (source)
  • Aram seated himself at the long table in the refectory, across from several of the Buddha's monks.†   (source)
  • The clicking and buzzing and chirping of the jungle accompanied the monks as they walked.†   (source)
  • Yama regarded the monks who now sat upon the floor, their heads bowed, and he lowered his voice.†   (source)
  • The saffron-robed monks who were in attendance moved silently about the great chamber.†   (source)
  • As they approached, several of the well-disciplined, imperturbable monks uttered brief exclamations.†   (source)
  • Flames leapt from the stone walls, the tables, the robes of the monks.†   (source)
  • The monks were seated upon the floor of the refectory.†   (source)
  • Carlo lived and tutored with the monks.†   (source)
  • Monks in desert hideaways, far from contagion; mountain goatherders who'd never mixed with the valley people; lost tribes in the jungles.†   (source)
  • She and her friend Violet drank their way through all the wine in that picture of drunk monks down by the Charms corridor.†   (source)
  • The house is a stone one, and chilly and damp; but by temperament — it must be the old New Englander in him — Simon feels a certain contempt for material self-indulgence; and as a medical student he became habituated to a monkish austerity, and to working long hours under difficult conditions.†   (source)
  • The influential rap band Beastie Boys were very publicly putting money into the Free Tibet campaign, and were bringing monks on stage at their concerts to give testimonials.†   (source)
  • I shook my head, thinking that I'd rather be alone than revert to the kind of person I'd been, but I found myself wondering whether I would end up being as monkish as my dad.†   (source)
  • The minute he disappeared, I whipped into the bathroom and, concealed behind the dirty, aluminum-colored Venetian blind, watched Irwin s monkish face appear in the door crack.†   (source)
  • Even in this worldly clutter, I saw Armand in his monkish cell, saw his dark-brown eyes, and felt that eerie magnetism.†   (source)
  • He had imagined dusty bookshelves piled high with tattered volumes, priests cataloging by the light of candles and stained-glass windows, monks poring over scrolls ....Not even close.†   (source)
  • For a long, somber moment we looked at each other: high chemical frequency, solitude to solitude, like two Tibetan monks on a mountaintop.†   (source)
  • Langdon had once visited the abbey's famous College Garden—a small fruit orchard and herb garden—left over from the days when monks grew natural pharmacological remedies here.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • When a billboard version of the ad was put up in San Francisco, Lambesis was forced to take it down, after Tibetan monks protested that monks don't touch their feet, let alone cheat on tests.†   (source)
  • I never took it out except when Dad and Xandra weren't there and I knew they wouldn't be back for a while—though even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world.†   (source)
  • The monks in charge of accounts were angry with me, but because the abbot wished it, they found me more paper and pen.†   (source)
  • She complained that the monks had never killed them, thinking they might have been former mortals and holy ones.†   (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)
  • When we dug our foxholes in the yard, the monks did not seem upset or displeased, though the younger one performed a washing motion with his hands.†   (source)
  • Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines.†   (source)
  • When the two monks finished cleaning the machine gun, Henry Dobbins began reassembling it, wiping off the excess oil, then he handed each of them a can of peaches and a chocolate bar.†   (source)
  • Which apparently was written by a group of terribly advanced monks who sort of advocated this really incredible method of praying.†   (source)
  • As I made my way up from the river, the trail was clogged with trekkers, yak' trains, red-robed monks, and barefoot Sherpas straining beneath back-wrenching loads of firewood and kerosene and soda pop. Ninety minutes above the river, I crested a broad ridge, passed a matrix of rock-walled yak corrals, and abruptly found myself in downtown Namche Bazaar, the social and commercial hub of Sherpa society.†   (source)
  • May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings andsecurity of self-government...All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man.†   (source)
  • After that, Chen lived apart as a rainmaker, neither relatives nor the monks willing to bring lightning upon themselves.†   (source)
  • Other times we walked slightly apart, Murray's hands clasped behind his back, Gladney's folded monkishly at the abdomen, a somewhat worried touch.†   (source)
  • Huddled against the downpour, heads bowed as if they were a procession of monks, they moved toward the house.†   (source)
  • Cedric, needing to justify his monkish routine night after night, developed a genuine belief that sacrifice, hard work, and extremely clean living would lead to rewards, including a scholarship to a top college.†   (source)
  • They wore fiir cloaks and snow-white dominoes as if they were a race of monks, and as they walked along the line of their fortifications the wind made their robes dance.†   (source)
  • At 7:12 P.M., accompanied by a tape of chanting Tibetan monks that her father had chosen, Amira Eliana Mortenson made her first official appearance on the planet.†   (source)
  • She was already an expert pole fighter, daughter of a teacher trained at the Shao-lin temple, where there lived an order of fighting monks.†   (source)
  • Monks never cheat.†   (source)
  • No blood bonded friend to friend (though there were things owed beggars and monks), and they had to figure out how to help my mother's spirit locate the To Keung School as "home.†   (source)
  • His fellow monks lift the charred corpse into the coffin they have brought with them for this moment.†   (source)
  • Four other monks surrounded him like disciples, all dressed in the same tattered robes, all bald, all smiling Cacciato's vacuous smile.†   (source)
  • More monks joined the crowd, hundreds of them now, and more coming, and the chanting grew fuller and deeper.†   (source)
  • She'd been busy for some years devouring American culture, leaving the earth scorched with interviews, she said—porno kings, contemplative monks, blues singers in prison.†   (source)
  • Monks, nuns, executioners.†   (source)
  • When the candles had been placed on a stone altar, and after a tramcar rattled by, the monks stopped milling and began to sway in rhythm, chanting softly in the purply light of evening.†   (source)
  • The monks were gone.†   (source)
  • years ago, for study and spiritual renewal, and she'd swayed beneath the great domes and prowled the catacombs and church basements and this is what she thought as the riders came up to the street, how she'd stood in a subterranean chapel in a Capuchin church and could not take her eyes off the skeletons stacked there, wondering about the monks whose flesh had once decorated these metatarsals and femurs and skulls, many skulls heaped in alcoves and hidey-holes, and she remembered thinking vindictively that these are the dead who will come out of the earth to lash and cudgel the living, to punish the sins of the living—death, yes, triumphant.†   (source)
  • Bettina, saying the rosary in the basement room with her friends, the five joyful mysteries, Mondays and Thursdays, the five sorrowful mysteries, Tuesdays and Fridays, the five glorious mysteries, and so on, but then again they probably didn't follow a set routine, no, they wouldn't, these women, because there were women like that who wore monks' robes on the feast of Saint Anthony, women and children both, brown robes and bare feet, the statue bobbing above them, and it was amazing and strange and impressive, Rosemary thought, and women like that would say their prayers without regard for schedules.†   (source)
  • The bombs also fell on the Vietcong, the Viet Minh, the French, the Laotians, the Cambodians, the Pathet Lao, the Khmer Rouge, the Montagnards, the Hmong, the Maoists, the Taoists, the Buddhists, the monks, the nuns, the rice farmers, the pig farmers, the student protesters and war resisters and flower people, the Chicago 7, the Chicago 8, the Catonsville 9—they were all, pretty much, the enemy.†   (source)
  • For a long time, he stood there, looked at the monks, saw young Siddhartha in their place, saw young Kamala walking among the high trees.†   (source)
  • The majority of the monks went out with their alms-dish, to collect food in town for their lunch, the only meal of the day.†   (source)
  • All that we can deduce from the record indicates that in the pursuit of their jobs SS officers, including doctors, were almost monkish in their decorum, sobriety and devotion to the rules.†   (source)
  • Govinda had become a monk, and a thousand monks were his brothers, wore the same robe as he, believed in his faith, spoke his language.†   (source)
  • Surely monks sleeping in other cells, their bodies exhausted from work in the fields and hours of prayers, heard me and lay awake wondering.†   (source)
  • Most of them are middle peasants, but you find all sorts of people-poor peasants, unfrocked monks, sons of kulaks up in arms against their fathers.†   (source)
  • Such monkish exhortations allowed me sometime during the next week to rise from bed, feeling fresh and cleansed and relatively unhorny, and to boldly continue my grapple with the assorted faeries, demons, clods, clowns, sweethearts and tormented mothers and fathers who were beginning to throng the pages of my novel.†   (source)
  • Attentively, Govinda looked at the monk in the yellow robe, who seemed to be in no way different from the hundreds of other monks.†   (source)
  • They were a remarkable sight-rich, smart lawyers and stockbrokers from Petrograd side by side with cab drivers, floor polishers, bath attendants, Tartar ragpickers, escaped lunatics, shopkeepers, and monks, all lumped in with the exploiting classes.†   (source)
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