All 15 Uses
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- He added, feeling that such chilly logic might not be entirely suited for the occasion: "As a matter of fact, murder is the very last thing one would expect in a Buddhist monastery.†
Chpt 2
- That a Tibetan monastery should possess a system of central heating was not, perhaps, so very remarkable in an age that supplied even Lhasa with telephones; but that it should combine the mechanics of Western hygiene with so much that was Eastern and traditional, struck him as exceedingly singular.†
Chpt 4
- "Please," she said, though the word was by no means submissive, "will you tell us about the monastery?"†
Chpt 4 *
- It's really a native monastery, then.†
Chpt 4
- And naturally in a monastery I wouldn't expect to be agreed with.†
Chpt 4
- After all, he was a representative of the British government, if nothing else; it was iniquitous that the inmates of a Tibetan monastery should refuse him any proper request......That, no doubt, was the normal official view that would be taken; and part of Conway was both normal and official.†
Chpt 4
- It was certainly a shock for four persons who in the ordinary course should have been luxuriating in the clubs and mission houses of Peshawar to find themselves faced instead with the prospect of two months in a Tibetan monastery.†
Chpt 5
- It was not the first monastic institution Conway had inspected, but it was easily the largest and, apart from its situation, the most remarkable.†
Chpt 5monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community
- There was an ancient lamasery existing then on this same mountain shelf, but it was in a state of decay both physical and spiritual, and as the Capuchin's harvest increased, he conceived the idea of setting up on the same magnificent site a Christian monastery.†
Chpt 7
- Emulation is, after all, a young man's spirit, and Perrault, by the time his monastery was well established, was already full of years.†
Chpt 7
- This isn't an ordinary monastery," was the best reply he could give after some thought.†
Chpt 9
- Think of all that we've actually seen, both of us—a lost valley in the midst of unexplored mountains, a monastery with a library of European books—†
Chpt 11
- After all, man, you're a critical sort of person—you'd hesitate to believe all you were told even in an English monastery—I really can't see why you should jump at everything just because you're in Tibet!†
Chpt 11
- When you get back to India you can tell people, if you like, that I decided to stay in a Tibetan monastery because I was afraid there'd be another war.†
Chpt 11
- After I'd gone on questioning him for a time, he said: 'Frankly, I'm not keen on monasteries—indeed, I once told a fellow I met in Tibet that if I went out of my way at all, it would be to avoid them, not pay them a visit.'†
Chpt Epil.monasteries = the residences of religious communities
Definitions:
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(1)
(monastery) the residence of a religious community
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)