All 11 Uses
monk
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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- The try-anything was the spells and chants of rogue monks.†
Chpt 2.1monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- His robe was not the sand-colored cotton of most wandering monks I had seen.†
Chpt 2.3
- The monk helped himself to everything—glass noodles with spinach, bamboo shoots with pickled mustard, tofu seasoned with sesame seed oil and coriander.†
Chpt 2.3
- "In other cases," the monk continued, "a small offering of pure silver can be enough and will cover the sincerity of all members of the immediate family."†
Chpt 2.3
- The monk continued eating.†
Chpt 2.3
- The monk nodded and put down his bowl.†
Chpt 2.3
- She complained that the monks had never killed them, thinking they might have been former mortals and holy ones.†
Chpt 2.4monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- And there were many, many statues, both Buddhist and Taoist, because the monastery had been occupied by both kinds of monks in different centuries, depending on which warlord was in charge of the land.†
Chpt 2.4
- Not a wail or a whimper, which is strange, since that Catcher of Ghosts turned out to be a fake, not a monk at all.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- My mind was a sandstorm: If the monk was a fake, did that mean Precious Auntie had escaped?†
Chpt 2.5
- "We call this the Love Nursery," Patel said, as they stepped into a blast of color—shocking pink and monk-robe saffron.†
Chpt 3.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)