All 4 Uses of
monk
in
Light in August
- He was looking straight ahead, with a rapt, calm expression like a monk in a picture.†
Chpt 7 *
- To another they must have looked like two monks met during the hour of contemplation in a garden path.†
Chpt 8monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- He was looking at the man, with on his face an expression a little placative and baffled though not alarmed, watching the man's inscrutable and monklike face.†
Chpt 8
- Beneath them, steady and constant and with a grave purposelessness (and with here and there, standing motionless or talking to one another from the sides of their mouths, some youngish men, townsmen, some of whom Byron knew as clerks and young lawyers and even merchants, who had a generally identical authoritative air, like policemen in disguise and not especially caring if the disguise hid the policeman or not) countrymen in overalls moved, with almost the air of monks in a cloister, speaking quietly among themselves of money and crops, looking quietly now and then upward at the ceiling beyond which the Grand Jury was preparing behind locked doors to take the life of a man whom few of them†
Chpt 18monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Definition:
a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience