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On Sundays a monk was fetched from a neighboring monastery to say mass and breakfast with us.†
p. 93.7
It was called the Easter party, though in fact it began on the Tuesday of Easter Week, for the Flytes all went into retreat at the guest-house of a monastery from Maundy Thursday until Easter.†
p. 146.7
As soon as his visit to his father is over Mr. Samgrass will pick him up and they will go together to the Levant, where Mr. Samgrass has long been anxious to investigate a number of orthodox monasteries.†
p. 167.9

monasteries = the residences of religious communities
He had been completely without action in all his years of adult life; the talk of his going into the army and into parliament and into a monastery, had all come to nothing.†
p. 321.3
A down-and-out called Flyte, who people said was an English lord, whom the fathers had found starving and taken in at a monastery near Carthage.†
p. 349.2 *
They were afraid he would come to harm and followed him sometimes, but he only went to the church or took a car to the monastery outside the town.†
p. 349.8
Anyway, that was later; after the consulate I went straight to the monastery and saw the Superior.†
p. 350.3
They had the idea of making him a sort of under-porter; there are usually a few odd hangers-on in a religious house, you know; people who can't quite fit in either to the world or the monastic rule.†
p. 353.9

monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community

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