All 19 Uses
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Doctor Zhivago
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- He raised his head and from his vantage point absently glanced about the bare autumn landscape and the domes of the monastery.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- They spent the night at the monastery, where Uncle Nikolai was given a room for old times' sake.†
Chpt 1.1
- A monastic stillness reigned in their home; the blinds were drawn, and everything was spotlessly clean, as in an operating room.†
Chpt 1.2monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community
- Hoarfrost, bearded like mold, sprouted on the chains with crosses hanging from the domes and on the pink monastery walls.†
Chpt 1.3
- In the far corner of the monastery yard, washing hung on lines stretching from wall to wall-shirts with heavy sodden sleeves, peach-colored tablecloths, badly wrung out and crookedly fastened sheets.†
Chpt 1.3
- Yura realized that this, altered in appearance by the new buildings, was the part of the monastery grounds where the blizzard had raged that night.†
Chpt 1.3
- The center was an old army warehouse next to the Simonov Monastery.†
Chpt 2.7
- The doctor and his father-in-law went through the monastery and the barrack yard and straight through a low stone door into a vaulted cellar.†
Chpt 2.7
- It clung to the summit of the hill in tiers, house by house and street by street, with a big church in the middle on the top, as in a cheap color print of a desert monastery or of Mount Athos.†
Chpt 2.7
- Beyond the river, on an even steeper rise, they could see the brick walls of the Vozdvizhensky Monastery.†
Chpt 2.10
- The road circled the hill of the monastery and zigzagged on through the outskirts of the town.†
Chpt 2.10
- When it reached the center of the town it skirted the monastery grounds once again, for the green-painted iron door of the monastery gave on to the main square.†
Chpt 2.10
- When it reached the center of the town it skirted the monastery grounds once again, for the green-painted iron door of the monastery gave on to the main square.†
Chpt 2.10
- At the seventh canonical hour, at one in the morning by the clock, a dark low sweet humming drifted from the deepest of the monastery bells, which hardly stirred.†
Chpt 2.10
- Almost indistinguishable in the distance, behind the network of rain, candles, lighting a face here, a forehead or a nose there, stirred and moved across the monastery yard.†
Chpt 2.10
- But out here, in the street, these comfortless reflections flew at her in clusters, and she could deal with all of them together, in the short while it took her to walk a few times from the monastery gate to the corner of the square and back.†
Chpt 2.10
- From there her house was down the street on the left, but every time she came to it she changed her mind about going in and turned back into the maze of alleys adjoining the monastery.†
Chpt 2.10
- How well they sang at the monastery!†
Chpt 2.10
- In case of emergency there was a way of escape through a trap door to an underground passage that came out in a lonely alley at the back of the monastery.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(monastery) the residence of a religious community
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)