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- And the next thing I remember is waking in France, in the Abbey of Sainte Anne de Beaupre, with my head throbbing like a drum and someone I couldn't see giving me something cool to drink.†
p. 96.6
- For the second, he thought from the look of me I was going to die in any case, so he sent me to the abbey.†
p. 203.5 *
- The Abbey of Ste.†
p. 203.5
- And on the other side, I was now presumably linked with Lord Lovat, chief of clan Fraser, with the abbot of a powerful French abbey, and with who knew how many other assorted Frasers.†
p. 243.8
- And so at length, following the prostrate body of our charge, laid on a board between two stout monks, we passed through the looming gates of the Abbey of Ste.†
p. 569.9
- Chapter 38 — The Abbey†
p. 570.1
- The abbey was an enormous twelfth-century edifice, walled to resist both the smashing of sea storms and the onslaughts of land-based invaders.†
p. 570.1
- Most of them were scholars, here to consult the works stored in the abbey's renowned library.†
p. 574.5
- Not wishing to hover over him, even if he would have allowed it, I spent much of my time in the herbarium or the drying shed with Brother Ambrose, or wandering idly through the Abbey's grounds, engaged in conversation with Father Anselm.†
p. 578.8
- We were leaning on the fence of the abbey pigsty, watching several large brown hogs huddling together in the weak winter sun.†
p. 579.1
- The sky was cold and damp, filling the horizon with a grey blankness that blended into the grey mist of the hills and the grimy cover of last week's snow, so that the abbey seemed wrapped inside a ball of dirty cotton.†
p. 603.1
- We walked together through the abbey grounds, talking.†
p. 604.9
- "There are several mineral springs near the abbey," Anselm explained.†
p. 607.5
- Let us adjourn this meeting to the abbey kitchens, where perhaps Brother Eulogius may be persuaded to provide us with a warming drink.†
p. 608.5
- The kitchens of the abbey were warm and cavelike, the arching roof blackened with centuries of grease-filled smoke.†
p. 608.8
- The abbey was a sanctuary, but only a temporary one.†
p. 614.7
- I remembered Anselm's mentioning the springs that bubbled up from the ground near the abbey, renowned for their healing powers.†
p. 623.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(abbey) a building where monks or nuns live or lived; or a church associated with such a building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Abbey can be a name.