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a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

a Catholic monk leading a life of austerity
The Buddhist monk was arrested after advocating cultural autonomy in Tibet.
He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Astonished, as if he had been the object of a magic spell, the monk looked into the ferryman's eyes.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

monk = a male member of a religious order

Not a wail or a whimper, which is strange, since that Catcher of Ghosts turned out to be a fake, not a monk at all.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

The monks bowed and moved out of the pagoda into the bright morning sunlight.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

monks = male members of a religious order typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

And this was terrible, for their words had great influence on young monks who were not yet firm in their convictions.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

monks = male members of a religious order living together and devoting themselves to contemplation, prayer and work

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

the monk raised his hands above my head, and his eyes toward the blue sky, and began some words in Latin;
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Reading of these monks, one can't help thinking of Everett Ruess and Chris McCandless.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Reading of these monks, one is moved by their courage, their reckless innocence, and the urgency of their desire.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

The monks arrived as early as the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., having sailed and rowed from the west coast of Ireland.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

It seems that McCandless was drawn to women but remained largely or entirely celibate, as chaste as a monk.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monk = a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Treeless and rocky, perpetually clobbered by gales howling off the North Atlantic, it takes its name from its first settlers, now long gone, the Irish monks known as papar.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Walking this gnarled shore one summer afternoon, I blundered upon a matrix of faint stone rectangles embedded in the tundra: vestiges of the monks' ancient dwellings, hundreds of years older, even, than the Anasazi ruins in Davis Gulch.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

For you, one may say, all the attractions of life _nihil est_—you are an ascetic, a monk, a hermit!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
There is a reason Christian monks spend lifetimes attempting to decipher the Bible.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

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