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Under the old dim writing of the Yankee historian appeared traces of a penmanship which was older and dimmer still—Latin words and sentences: fragments from old monkish legends, evidently.†
Chpt Pref.

monkish = having the characteristics of a monk (often inclined toward self-denial)
As we stepped into the vast enclosed court of the castle I got a shock; for the first thing I saw was the stake, standing in the center, and near it the piled fagots and a monk.†
Chpt 6
Then there was a pause, and a deeper hush, if possible, and a man knelt down at my feet with a blazing torch; the multitude strained forward, gazing, and parting slightly from their seats without knowing it; the monk raised his hands above my head, and his eyes toward the blue sky, and began some words in Latin; in this attitude he droned on and on, a little while, and then stopped.†
Chpt 6 *
I reached for the monk's sleeve, in considerable excitement, and asked him what day of the month it was.†
Chpt 6
And so they came to an abbey of monks, and there were well lodged.†
Chpt 15

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Of old time there lived there an abbot and his monks.†
Chpt 21
Now were the fickle monks tempted of the Fiend, and they wrought with their abbot unceasingly by beggings and beseechings that he would construct a bath; and when he was become aweary and might not resist more, he said have ye your will, then, and granted that they asked.†
Chpt 21
These monks did enter into the bath and come thence washed as white as snow; and lo, in that moment His sign appeared, in miraculous rebuke!†
Chpt 21
From every land came monks to join; they came even as the fishes come, in shoals; and the monastery added building to building, and yet others to these, and so spread wide its arms and took them in.†
Chpt 21
The prayers that did begin then, and the lamentations in sackcloth and ashes, and the holy processions, none of these have ceased nor night nor day; and so the monks and the nuns and the foundlings be all exhausted, and do hang up prayers writ upon parchment, sith that no strength is left in man to lift up voice.†
Chpt 21
A superstitious despair possessed the heart of every monk and published itself in his ghastly face.†
Chpt 22
My presence gave the monks hope, and cheered them up a good deal; insomuch that they ate a square meal that night for the first time in ten days.†
Chpt 22

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
The well-chamber was dimly lighted by lamps; the water was drawn with a windlass and chain by monks, and poured into troughs which delivered it into stone reservoirs outside in the chapel—when there was water to draw, I mean—and none but monks could enter the well-chamber.†
Chpt 22
The well-chamber was dimly lighted by lamps; the water was drawn with a windlass and chain by monks, and poured into troughs which delivered it into stone reservoirs outside in the chapel—when there was water to draw, I mean—and none but monks could enter the well-chamber.†
Chpt 22
Then I called in a couple of monks, locked the door, took a candle, and made them lower me in the bucket.†
Chpt 22
When I was above ground again, I turned out the monks, and let down a fish-line; the well was a hundred and fifty feet deep, and there was forty-one feet of water in it.†
Chpt 22
I called in a monk and asked: "How deep is the well?"†
Chpt 22
It was true—as to recent times at least—for there was witness to it, and better witness than a monk; only about twenty or thirty feet of the chain showed wear and use, the rest of it was unworn and rusty.†
Chpt 22
I said to the monk: "It is a difficult miracle to restore water in a dry well, but we will try, if my brother Merlin fails.†
Chpt 22
That monk was filled up with the difficulty of this enterprise; he would fill up the others.†
Chpt 22
Now arrived the abbot and several hundred monks and nuns, and behind them a multitude of pilgrims and a couple of acres of foundlings, all drawn by the prodigious smoke, and all in a grand state of excitement.†
Chpt 23

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.†
Chpt 23
I took along a night shift of monks, and taught them the mystery of the pump, and set them to work, for it was plain that a good part of the people out there were going to sit up with the water all night, consequently it was but right that they should have all they wanted of it.†
Chpt 23
To those monks that pump was a good deal of a miracle itself, and they were full of wonder over it; and of admiration, too, of the exceeding effectiveness of its performance.†
Chpt 23
According to history, the monks of this place two centuries before had been worldly minded enough to want to wash.†
Chpt 24
The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival.†
Chpt 24
This distressed the monks and terrified them.†
Chpt 24
It set the abbot and the monks in a whirl of excitement, and it rocked the enchanter to his base.†
Chpt 24
I asked a friend of mine, a monk, about it, and he said, yes, the magician had tried some further enchantments and found out that the court had concluded to make no journey at all, but stay at home.†
Chpt 24
The abbot was helpless with rage and humiliation when I brought him out on a balcony and showed him the head of the state marching in and never a monk on hand to offer him welcome, and no stir of life or clang of joy-bell to glad his spirit.†
Chpt 24
The next minute the bells were dinning furiously, and the various buildings were vomiting monks and nuns, who went swarming in a rush toward the coming procession; and with them went that magician —and he was on a rail, too, by the abbot's order; and his reputation was in the mud, and mine was in the sky again.†
Chpt 24

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
I was hungry enough for literature to want to take down the whole paper at this one meal, but I got only a few bites, and then had to postpone, because the monks around me besieged me so with eager questions: What is this curious thing?†
Chpt 26
Toward the shaven monk who trudged along with his cowl tilted back and the sweat washing down his fat jowls, the coal-burner was deeply reverent; to the gentleman he was abject; with the small farmer and the free mechanic he was cordial and gossipy; and when a slave passed by with a countenance respectfully lowered, this chap's nose was in the air—he couldn't even see him.†
Chpt 31

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(1) (monk)
a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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