All 50 Uses of
monk
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- In the evening of the same day he got drunk and abused the monks to Alyosha.†
Chpt 1
- Not long after visiting his mother's grave Alyosha suddenly announced that he wanted to enter the monastery, and that the monks were willing to receive him as a novice.†
Chpt 1
- "That is the most honest monk among them, of course," he observed, after listening in thoughtful silence to Alyosha, and seeming scarcely surprised at his request.†
Chpt 1
- … Do you know that near one monastery there's a place outside the town where every baby knows there are none but 'the monks' wives' living, as they are called.†
Chpt 1
- Well, there's nothing of that sort here, no 'monks' wives,' and two hundred monks.†
Chpt 1
- Well, there's nothing of that sort here, no 'monks' wives,' and two hundred monks.†
Chpt 1
- So you want to be a monk?†
Chpt 1
- The monks in the monastery probably believe that there's a ceiling in hell, for instance.†
Chpt 1
- When you've lived with the monks you'll sing a different tune.†
Chpt 1
- Besides, it will be more seemly for you with the monks than here with me, with a drunken old man and young harlots …. though you're like an angel, nothing touches you.†
Chpt 1
- A monk was suddenly commanded by his elder to quit Athos, which he loved as a sacred place and a haven of refuge, and to go first to Jerusalem to do homage to the Holy Places and then to go to the north to Siberia: "There is the place for thee and not here."†
Chpt 1
- The monk, overwhelmed with sorrow, went to the OEcumenical Patriarch at Constantinople and besought him to release him from his obedience.†
Chpt 1
- Seeing this, the opponents of the elders declared that the sacrament of confession was being arbitrarily and frivolously degraded, though the continual opening of the heart to the elder by the monk or the layman had nothing of the character of the sacrament.†
Chpt 1
- The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.†
Chpt 1
- There were, no doubt, up to the end of his life, among the monks some who hated and envied him, but they were few in number and they were silent, though among them were some of great dignity in the monastery, one, for instance, of the older monks distinguished for his strict keeping of fasts and vows of silence.†
Chpt 1
- There were, no doubt, up to the end of his life, among the monks some who hated and envied him, but they were few in number and they were silent, though among them were some of great dignity in the monastery, one, for instance, of the older monks distinguished for his strict keeping of fasts and vows of silence.†
Chpt 1
- But his incoherent talk was cut short by a very pale, wan-looking monk of medium height, wearing a monk's cap, who overtook them.†
Chpt 2
- But his incoherent talk was cut short by a very pale, wan-looking monk of medium height, wearing a monk's cap, who overtook them.†
Chpt 2
- The monk, with an extremely courteous, profound bow, announced: "The Father Superior invites all of you gentlemen to dine with him after your visit to the hermitage.†
Chpt 2
- Thank the Father Superior," he said to the monk.†
Chpt 2
- "No, it is my duty now to conduct you to the elder," answered the monk.†
Chpt 2
- But as you please—" the monk hesitated.†
Chpt 2
- You see what a man he is"—he turned to the monk—"I'm afraid to go among decent people with him."†
Chpt 2
- A fine smile, not without a certain slyness, came on to the pale, bloodless lips of the monk, but he made no reply, and was evidently silent from a sense of his own dignity.†
Chpt 2
- But I did hear that the elder receives ladies," he remarked suddenly to the monk.†
Chpt 2
- He never thrashed any one," answered the monk.†
Chpt 2
- There were already in the cell, awaiting the elder, two monks of the hermitage, one the Father Librarian, and the other Father Paissy, a very learned man, so they said, in delicate health, though not old.†
Chpt 2
- The two monks rose and greeted him with a very deep bow, touching the ground with their fingers; then kissed his hand.†
Chpt 2
- But when he saw all this bowing and kissing on the part of the monks he instantly changed his mind.†
Chpt 2
- The monks sat, one at the door and the other at the window.†
Chpt 2
- The monks, with unchanged countenances, waited, with earnest attention, to hear what the elder would say, but seemed on the point of standing up, like Miuesov.†
Chpt 2
- The mother was sitting on a chair by the side of her daughter's invalid carriage, and two paces from her stood an old monk, not one of our monastery, but a visitor from an obscure religious house in the far north.†
Chpt 2
- He had begun talking to a monk who, as mentioned before, had been awaiting his entrance by Lise's chair.†
Chpt 2
- He was evidently a monk of the humblest, that is of the peasant, class, of a narrow outlook, but a true believer, and, in his own way, a stubborn one.†
Chpt 2
- He announced that he had come from the far north, from Obdorsk, from Saint Sylvester, and was a member of a poor monastery, consisting of only ten monks.†
Chpt 2
- "How can you presume to do such deeds?" the monk asked suddenly, pointing solemnly and significantly at Lise.†
Chpt 2
- Visit me, Father," he added to the monk.†
Chpt 2
- Ivan and the two monks took the leading share in it.†
Chpt 2
- "Perfectly true," Father Paissy, the silent and learned monk, assented with fervor and decision.†
Chpt 2
- The monks looked austere but waited for guidance from the elder.†
Chpt 2
- "Listen, listen, monks, to the parricide!" cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, rushing up to Father Iosif.†
Chpt 2
- That 'creature,' that 'woman of loose behavior' is perhaps holier than you are yourselves, you monks who are seeking salvation!†
Chpt 2
- Yes, it was for such, monks, it was!†
Chpt 2
- Only the monks went up to him again for a blessing.†
Chpt 2
- Where's that monk?"†
Chpt 2
- "That monk," that is, the monk who had invited them to dine with the Superior, did not keep them waiting.†
Chpt 2
- "That monk," that is, the monk who had invited them to dine with the Superior, did not keep them waiting.†
Chpt 2
- Convey my deepest respect to the Father Superior, apologize for me, personally, Miuesov, to his reverence, telling him that I deeply regret that owing to unforeseen circumstances I am unable to have the honor of being present at his table, greatly as I should desire to do so," Miuesov said irritably to the monk.†
Chpt 2
- "Unfortunately I feel myself compelled to go to this confounded dinner," said Miuesov with the same irritability, regardless of the fact that the monk was listening.†
Chpt 2
- The monk listened in silence.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience