All 4 Uses of
abbot
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Against the north wall was the empty stone coffin of an abbot, in which every tourist with a turn for grim humour was accustomed to stretch himself.†
Chpt 5 *
- I have to preach at Abbot's-Cernel at six this evening, and my way lies across to the right from here.†
Chpt 6
- He turned to a hunting-gate in the hedge and, without letting his eyes again rest upon her, leapt over and struck out across the down in the direction of Abbot's-Cernel.†
Chpt 6
- But there was another hour's work before the layer of live rats at the base of the stack would be reached; and as the evening light in the direction of the Giant's Hill by Abbot's-Cernel dissolved away, the white-faced moon of the season arose from the horizon that lay towards Middleton Abbey and Shottsford on the other side.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
a person in charge of a group of monks