How To Use Cloister In A Sentence

Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic? An Autobiography
Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
But there was the nagging fact, for me, always, of the apartness, the undeniable cloistering from men. Times, Sunday Times
The feudal system is cloistered and I welcomed the change as it gave me a chance to grow emotionally and spiritually.

Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
Her design style was said to be greatly influenced by the days in cloister: SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1012
On our left, the elegant old dowager Cloister slept in its garden of flowers, under its arching canopy of ancient oaks. DOWNTOWN
More than 25 years ago, Koestenbaum traded the cloistered halls of academia for the front lines of the global economy.
Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally.
When it was time to leave the cloistered halls of academia and put all her knowledge to use, she chose to come to Pattaya to work.
They have always a mosque joining to them, and the body of the hann is a most noble hall, capable of holding three or four hundred persons, the court extremely spacious, and cloisters round it, that give it the air of our colleges. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
A little time to carry on this intrigue with the Frank, when possibly, by the assistance of this gallant, Alexius shall exchange the crown for a cloister, or a still narrower abode; and then, Agelastes, thou deservest to be blotted from the roll of philosophers, if thou canst not push out of the throne the conceited and luxurious Caesar, and reign in his stead, a second Marcus Count Robert of Paris
Introspection, and retrospection were good for the cloister; but the uplook, the outlook and the onlook are alone worthy the modern Christian. Work Done for Humanity
The Congress likes to cloister its leader in a tower surrounded by loyal party leaders, accessible only to the select few.
It may here be mentioned that a close examination of the ground has shown that there was formerly the usual "slype," or open pathway, running from the cloister-garth, between the south transept and the Chapter House, to the canons 'cemetery on the southern side of the Lady Chapel. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
This nuns 'choir was in existence by the beginning of the fourteenth century, but may have been built along with the rest of the nave and may have been accessible by stairs near the chapterhouse in the west range of the cloister. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
The Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca is in a former monastery and a wander around the airy cloisters or in the excellent cacti garden offer a respite from any cases of museum fatigue.
Was she too cloistered in that museum of a mill, living alone with her mother among all their memories and memorabilia ? GRACE
Cherie Burns has written a bracing, sex-and-shopping account of that life, suggesting that haute couture provided a cloistered young debutante a way to "lay claim to herself" and become a sophisticated socialite. She Wore It Well
Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.
These sceptical, cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities.
But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
Nevertheless Suger was no cloistered academic.
TO the books of the monastery some human interest clings: we can at once conjure up a picture of the cloister and the scribe at his work; the handling of an old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written and quaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashing back centuries to the silent writer in his carrell. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
‘He's uncomfortable with it, so I tend to do it secretly, when I'm alone in the house or by cloistering myself in the bathroom,’ she admits.
The walls of the church, with one tower, still stand, and there are very substantial remains of the chapter house, cloister, refectory, and calefactory. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
The entrance from the slype into the cloister and the layout of the stairs is discussed further below.
In front of the modest doors of the chambers inhabited by almsmen and almswomen runs a tiny cloister with oak pillars, so that the inmates may visit one another dryshod in any weather. Vanishing England
Neither at St. Katharinenthal nor at Unterlinden do we know the exact location of such a room, but generally these activities took place in the west range of the cloister, furthest from the choir and chapterhouse. 108 The Sister-Books make reference to the werkhaus, werkhuss, or werkgaden. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
It has a marvelous glassed-in central cloister, where breakfast is served in summer, and a swimming pool sheltering beneath the Saracen tower opposite.
The friars inhabited the cloister, sang the matins, fasted and prayed within the walls and lived their lives in Banada six centuries ago.
There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.
Also if there is any cloistered person who has begun his week of being hebdomadary, and falls into such sickness that he cannot celebrate the same, the cantor is to say or celebrate three masses. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Which must count for something if you live a life cloistered from actual feeling and when regular people aren't nearly as interesting as arcane books intended to be endlessly deconstructed by gray pates.
Provided by Charlotte Moss The fountain at the center of the cloister is a place for meditation, surrounded by four domed seats made of coppiced chestnut wood above. Paradise Regained
The arch is topped by a large tracery rose and backed by a trough on the interior side (within the cloister walk) that probably once marked the entrance to the chapterhouse. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Les Miserables
When guests are present they are expected to cloister themselves from view.
A short walk out of the centre brings you to the cool stone walls of the cloistered courtyard, a welcome oasis of calm away from the busy city streets.
Business had invaded the cloisters, where, in lieu of antiphonaries, fat ledgers lay on the lecterns.
His sister, Isabella, a cloistered novitiate, petitions Angelo for mercy.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Areopagitica
The roof of the cloisters was a terrace flagged with stone, and on the occasion of cricket-matches a gay bevy of ladies assembled here to look at the exploits of the young Rawdon Crawleys and Pendennises of the day. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
Only women of certain noble families could gain admittance to its cloister.
Now, he's cloistered in Italy -- where he's lammed it, because of the whole criminal record thing -- and running again against anointed GOP candidate Teresa Collett. Support Jack Shepard, The Arsonist, For Congress
Woodrow Wilson believed that the League of Nations was the first modern attempt to prevent war by discussion in the open and not behind closed doors or "within the cloistered retreats of European diplomacy. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
The monastic cloisters enclose a medieval-style secret garden and an ancient stone fountain carved with fantastic beasts!
In the chief street of Elgin, the houses jut over the lowest story, like the old buildings of timber in London, but with greater prominence; so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister, or portico, which is now indeed frequently broken, because the new houses have another form, but seems to have been uniformly continued in the old city. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
While this nuptial dimension belongs to the entire Church by reason of our baptism, the cloistered nun is consecrated to be an icon of this reality.
The interior - a quadrangle of rooms giving off an overgrown cloister garth - had something of the air of Custer's Last Stand.
Like many kids growing up in the mid-1960s, I spent countless hours cloistered in my room assembling those multicolored bricks.
Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
The style of his discourse was adapted to cloisteral disputations, and overloaded with scholastic distinctions. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
Each deck or cloister is wide enough for people to circulate while others work or chat.
In the chapel, a room sadly truncated by the new entrance hall, the physical evidence of Catholicism had been ruthlessly excised, but the cloister retained its tranquillity, and the large, undecorated dining hall could still properly be described as a refectory. The Blackstone Key
The SSPX, as I understand it, don't want to engage in the salvation of souls in "cloistered" communities independent of the local Bishops. Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009
The narrow cloisters were packed with humanity, and as they made their way through the press, with the honour guard of acolytes clearing a way for them, black faces called Amharic greetings and black hands reached out to touch them. The Seventh Scroll
Yet he never knew of the hair-cloth smock, the discipline, the cord and sack-cloth that lay stored in the large carved awmry, and were secretly in use on every fast or vigil, not with any notion of merit, but of simple obedience, and with even deeper comprehension and enjoyment of their spiritual significance, of which, in her cloister life, she had comprehended little. The Chaplet of Pearls
Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of crenellations (battlements).
In the comparative warmth of noon they sat together in the end carrel of the north walk of the cloister, where they could see down the full length of the walk across the garth. A River So Long
By arguing that the debates should be delayed, complaining about bias, and virtually cloistering Sarah Palin, the McCain campaign is showing that it is, for whatever reason, afraid of the press. Why Is the McCain Campaign Afraid of the Press? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
And in every wyndowe iij pewes or carrells, where every one of the old Monks had his carrell, severall by himselfe, that, when they had dyned, they dyd resorte to that place of Cloister and there studyed upon there books, every one in his carrell, all the after nonne, unto evensong time. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches.
In the late cinquecento, Florentine patrons seized upon the cloister lunette fresco cycle as an ideal format for reformist didactic painting.
He has cloistered himself in a monastery for more than thirty years.
Fay was never terribly good at living, so it makes sense that she would eventually cloister herself away behind a typewriter.
A contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional form, the cloister is a luminous, humanly scaled ambulatory space that leads visitors through the pavilion.
The cloisters and gardens are also open with the Fox Talbot Museum between February 26 and April 1.
A trumpet sounded through the sun-bathed cloisters of Manchester Cathedral after the coffin of Stephen Oake was borne in by six pall-bearers yesterday.
If I could tell you how the Convent rises before me as a vision of blessedness -- after life's 'shaky scraw' -- the cool cloisters, the rows of innocent beds, the delicious old garden. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
When we meet Jesus in the medieval West, it is, in these and other ways, most often as the Christ of the cloisters.
The architectural structure of the cloisters is based upon the medieval symbolism of the virgin as an unviolated woman.
Afterwards, we sipped chai in one of the tea stalls which had sprung up in the outer cloisters of the temple.
Afterwards, we sipped chai in one of the tea stalls which had sprung up in the outer cloisters of the temple.
Lindsey (1214-1222) erected a lavatory in the south cloister: this would be contemporary with the Early English work remaining in this wall, and with the archway to the slype; but it must have been removed when the cloisters were enlarged, and another lavatory, of which we see the remains under three arches, built in its stead. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
Sometimes the scriptorium was a large hall or studio, with various desks about; sometimes the North walk of the cloister was divided into little cells, called "carrels," in each of which was room for the writer, his desk, and a little shelf for his inks and colours. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
They were to sit in cloister when reading each reading his own book, save those who might be singing from antiphoners, graduals, or hymnaries.
But her last vestige of power had departed, her most loyal followers had been induced to abandon her cause after the defection of the kalif himself, and Sobeyah, who had been the most powerful of all the Moorish sultanas of Cordova, was now forced in humiliation to withdraw from active participation in worldly affairs and to spend the few remaining years of her life in strict seclusion in a lonely cloister. Women of the Romance Countries
And Cadfael turned back into the cloister garth, and paced the bleached wintry sward very thoughtfully. A River So Long
Unlike Blessed Maria Gabriella dell'Unità who did this without leaving her cloister, Father Lev Gillet did it as an idiorhythmic monk by serving within Orthodoxy without ever leaving the Church of his baptism and priestly ordination. Roger of Taize
It is by no means an entirely cloistered existence.
Experience all those things his cloistered lifestyle with the Tech-Greens had denied him.
How could they contribute to society without leaving the cloistered surroundings of the academy?
It is 1969, and a cloistered block in west Philadelphia is shaken to its core by long kept secrets, betrayal and lies that wreak terrible damage on two families.
Facing them, on the South Walk cloister wall, were the remnants of the night stairs from the now vanished dorter. Excerpt: The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick
A slype is the name for a covered passage from a church or monastery cloister.
As usual in Al-Islam, it is a hypaethral building with a spacious central area, called Al-Sahn, Al-Hosh, Al-Haswah, or Al-Ramlah,7 surrounded by a peristyle with numerous rows of pillars like the colonnades of an Italian cloister. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
‘Tibet was cloistered away from the effects of modernity right up until the 1950s,’ says Harris.
Jedidah, before you commit yourself to the cloisters, we want to give you a choice.
By the fifteenth century in England, even the regular clergy were rarely so tightly cloistered as to cut them off from social relations.
As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real.
He's the other-worldly mystic, cloistered away, who deals daily in more murder, suffering and unforgiveness than most of us encounter in a month of Monday mornings.
Decisions must have been painful to a man who had been cloistered in a college all his adult life until the Lord called him to high office. GOODBYE CURATE
The Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca is in a former monastery and a wander around the airy cloisters or in the excellent cacti garden offer a respite from any cases of museum fatigue.
The Laurentian Library was built between 1524 and 1559 in the cloister of the church of San Lorenzo for the Medici Pope, Clement VII, to house the illustrious family collection of manuscripts and printed books. Michelangelo,
‘It used to be like an open cloister but the archways were closed in,’ explained Mr Purslow.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Archive 2006-01-01
There were many famous cloisters in Byzantium where such women placed themselves at the service of society as a whole.
“But, my father,” said Catharine, “even for these opinions men term you a Lollard and a Wickliffite, and say it is your desire to destroy churches and cloisters, and restore the religion of heathenesse.” The Fair Maid of Perth
East of the cloister garth — 100 feet square — stands the calefactory, its vaulted roof upheld by two pillars; this long served for a The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
For the two founders, who prided themselves on being well-informed, it would be a harsh lesson in the dangers of being too clever and too cloistered.
The pope grants dispensations to all who are unable to go in person to the stations, such as cloistered religious, prisoners, the sick, etc., who are free to visit their own church and say the prayers prescribed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Dubrovnik contains wonderful monasteries with peaceful cloisters and fine artworks.
Retired in a cloister from the vices and passions of the world, he presents not a confession, but an apology, of the life of an ambitious statesman. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The very tangible result: industry rumor has it that a couple of years back, a major publishing house required a writer who spent a significant amount of time living with cloistered nuns to obtained signed releases from each and every one of the wimpled ones, swearing that they would not sue the publisher over the book. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Pitching 101, part III: blind trust and why it has no place in the pitching or querying processes
So long as cloisterers stayed in their cloisters, spending their lives in contemplation and prayer, they had grace in God's sight and in men's.
In the larger world outside the cloistered environs of Cambridge academia, the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of life was shaken yet again.
The writer of perhaps the greatest historical novel in the English language, _The Cloister and the Hearth_, was what one might call a glutton for thoroughness. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification.
Nuova, the hospital of Florence; and then, being dead, he was buried in the Ossa (for so they call a cloister, or rather cemetery, of the hospital), like the rest of the poor, in the year 1340. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi
Was she too cloistered in that museum of a mill, living alone with her mother among all their memories and memorabilia? GRACE
The mosque originally consisted of a rectangular court 43.2 m by 33 m, enclosed by colonnaded cloisters.
So, under the cool cloisters of Palazzo degli Uffizi I shall come at last on to Lung 'Arno, where it is very quiet, and no horses may pass, and the trams are a long way off. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
Nash did not live a cloistered existence nor was he spared the shocks that flesh is heir to.
I would to God, this were only the private misdevotion of some superstitious old wife, or some idle and silly cloisterer.
Stately masonries, longdrawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide. Past and Present
A Dublin education, but a life spent, as he put it, 'cloistered' in the likes of Cambridge, Oxford, St Andrews, and now Edinburgh. Strip Jack
Thou art a master when thou art at home; Nor starving cloisterer, nor novice there.
In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk.
We left the guest house, going through stone-vaulted passageways into the cloister garth.
Although the fictional Inspector Morse freely wanders the cloisters, technically police can not enter college grounds without permission from the master.
Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
Perhaps because I'm a lapsed Catholic who was taught by nuns, and as an adult have interviewed women who prefer the convent and vow of chastity, I've learned something of the utility and defense that something like a veil, habit of dress, and separate habitation, if not outright cloistering, affords women who wish not to be sexually objectified by commercial and sexual interests. G. Roger Denson: Shirin Neshat: Artist of the Decade
Our whole lives were lived within the cathedral cloisters. Times, Sunday Times
After the English Reformation, many holy buildings such as tombs, charnel-houses, cloisters and churches were deconsecrated, emptied of their contents, sold away or destroyed.
In my early years I was puzzled by the fact that a priest from a neighboring men's cloister came to celebrate the liturgy exclusively for women.
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Ms. Zygas, citing security reasons, would not say why the altarpiece and the tapestries are the only two artworks in the Cloisters that are protected by motion sensors. NYT > Home Page
Often the cloister was the only refuge for women who wanted to pursue learning and be active in scholarly life.
She cloistered herself in the office
Provided by Charlotte Moss The fountain at the center of the cloister is a place for meditation, surrounded by four domed seats made of coppiced chestnut wood above. Paradise Regained
Those who choose to pursue science and math live in cloisters, called Maths, apart from everyone else, the saeculars. REVIEW: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
A cloistered walkway bordered the courtyard on three sides, arches supported by white pillars, on each pillar a lamp.
In attacking the cloistered monks and nuns of my Roman Catholic Church, the brilliant, if occasionally logorrheic, John Milton wrote in his defense of free speech, "Areopagitica," that "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed. How I Learned Not to Fear the Anti-God Squad
The sun was pouring down a yellow autumnal ray into the square of the cloisters; beaming upon a scanty plot of grass in the centre, and lighting up an angle of the vaulted passage with a kind of dusky splendor. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
This was the perfect voice to carry pop culture through the mid-60s, till things went tragic and the Beatles turned into eminences cloistered enough to be their own parodies.
Nash did not live a cloistered existence nor was he spared the shocks that flesh is heir to.
You have no real life experience to guide you – cloistered against the world in your middle-upper class upbringing, and using only your Young Republican hymnbook to sing from. Matthew Yglesias » Too Much Prison
They can simply say something such as ‘I am of the Cloister, and my cloister is of deep seclusion.’
Cistercian arrangement, with the cloister south of the church, and grouped round it the chapter-house, calefactory, refectory, and other loca regularia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Mrs. Clinton said she had sought fresh voices; mindful that previous secretaries of state have been criticized for cloistering themselves on the building's seventh floor, she has made a point of dropping in at its bureaus. Taylor Marsh: Hillary Learns a Lesson
Yet for our ministers, cloistered from economic reality, it's business as usual.
The very texts that the monks were reading in the cloister were often decorated with a similar repertoire of disturbing creatures.
Elevating, to give peint to his blick, his jewelled pederect to the allmysty cielung, he luckystruck blueild out of a few should-be santillants, a cloister of starabouts over Maples, a lucciolys in Finnegans Wake
Traditional Cambridge colleges, modelled on monastic cloisters, consist of courts surrounded by walls of individual rooms.
At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spout on the part of these Bedouins; the Cloisterham police meanwhile looking askant from their beats with suspicion, and manifest impatience that the intruders should depart from within the civic bounds, and once more fry themselves on the simmering high – roads. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
I explain to them the story of Buddha, who was called Siddhartha before his enlightenment, and how, after a cloistered life of luxury, he stepped outside his palace one day and saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a starving man who had rejected the material world. The Memory Palace
Thomas Merton described in a letter to Dorothy Day the movement of his spirit from the cloister to the world.
The south walk of the cloisters is the more richly groined. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
Some of his views "might seem like broken visions of the future, when we think of the first disciples who had all things in common, and, in later days, of the celibate clergy, and the cloisteral life of the religious orders. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
This embrace of the mystical dimension of faith does not require withdrawal to the cloister or a privatized Christianity.
Stately masonries, long-drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
It is such solitude that speaks in the first "Impression of Notre-Dame" with its gray mounting masses, its cloisteral reverberation of bells, its savage calls of the city to one standing alone with the monument of a dead age. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
His enervated foster parents solved the problem by giving the little rowdy into the custody of a cloister.
Facing the cloisters is a cheerful inner court, then the dining-room towards the seashore, fine enough for anyone, as my host asserts, and when the south-west wind is blowing the room is just scattered by the spray of the spent waves. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
The central portion of the house was two stories high, flanked by two cloistered arcades.
The General Prologue portrait calls attention to Huberd's grand and dignified appearance, so unlike a cloisterer's or a scholar's threadbare looks.
Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery.
To the cloister-reared maiden the idea of wifely duty was elevated almost to a religion. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
Catholic Spain was the final bastion of the old ways, where Antiphonals would continue to be handwritten by cloistered monks well into the eighteenth century.
And you can buy your vegetables from a local market spread out below 13 th-century Franciscan cloisters.
There is a small archaeological museum in the cloisters of the cathedral.
Slumming, I suppose, now you've left the Fulham Road for the cloisters of South Ken? WHISTLER IN THE DARK
What this, the passage about Lori's suicide and many others reveal about the future Archbishop is deeply encouraging in terms of insights into this sensitive, intellectual and complex figure considered possibly by some as more suited to an eremetic life of cloistered academia but whose witness as a man "other than" or "apart from" the materialism and consumerist ambition of so much of the British establishment, is one of which we are all surely in need. Anglican Mainstream
Nash did not live a cloistered existence nor was he spared the shocks that flesh is heir to.
Our Lady's Chapel has a bold kind of portal, and several ceilings of chapels, and tribunes in a beautiful taste: but of all delight, is what they call the abbot's cloister. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
She who had abandoned the world outside the cloister walls found the microcosm of the community within too large.
Someone, in the cloistered mews where Aston Martins are built, came up with some rather novel marketing ideas.
The following inscription, on an ancient brass, affixed to a gravestone near the west part of the cathedral, which, being taken off, was kept in the city tolsey or hall for some time until it was finally fastened to a freestone on the west side of the Bishop’s Cloisters: — "Good Christeyn People of your Charite Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
IV. iii.280 (107,1) [He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister] I know not that _cloister_, though it may etymologically signify _any_ Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
The opera follows the destiny of Blanche de la Force as she enters the cloister at Compiegne, painting a portrait in sound of the humble, neurotic heroine.
Cloistered monks throughout the medieval period routinely kept gardens, both for growing their own food and spices and for cultivating medicinal herbs to aid in the healing of their ill brethren.
These subterranean palaces and vaulted cloisters, which we call bulbs, are no more roots than the blade of grass is a root, in which the ear of corn forms before it shoots up. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
The Coronation altarpiece may well have been funded through a gift of land donated to the cloister at the end of the first decade of the quattrocento.
In the film, the appearance of the tower behind the woman's head signifies the protagonist's arousal; his failure to get up the tower at the cloister signifies his impotence.
Seib Nod was a lifelong member of the Sisterhood of the Beatific Countenance on the planet Lorrd but grew bored with their cloistered lifestyle.
Some lovely Christian Science ladies had invited her to a concert at the cloisters.
I almost didn't come because I was afraid you would ask me to tell you what I know before admitting me to your cloister.
There are some who imagine that this way of discerning the will of God is impracticable for persons in the world, and that it is only out of the world, as they call the cloistered life, that one can have recourse to it. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
A terrace, or block of flats, or subdivided larger houses, or building cloisters and courtyards or whatever.
This picture is a fresco in the cloister of the Annunziata at Florence, and it is called ‘of the sack’ because Joseph is posed leaning against a sack, a book open upon his knees.
Whether they were to serve the purposes of missionaries, monks, or emperors these manuscripts were mostly produced in the scriptoria or cloisters of abbeys and monasteries.
At the other end of the cloister were the kitchens, butleries, pantries, and offices.
Many significant people, scholars and nonscholars, enrich the Orthodox cloisters.
Sometimes Behrens recalls these stories from the vantage point of the monastic cloister.
The north end of the entry opens directly into the east alley of the infirmary or" farmery "cloister, which is built against the north side of the east end of the frater. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
Having meanwhile given his attention to architecture, he began the first cloister of the Monastery of Cestello, and executed that part of it that is seen to be of the Ionic Order; placing capitals on the columns with volutes curving downwards to the collarino, where the shaft of the column ends, and making, below the ovoli and the fusarole, a frieze, one-third in height of the diameter of the column. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
I was going to tell you that my house is so monastic, that I have a little hall decked with long saints in lean arched windows, and with taper columns, which we call the Paraclete, in memory of Eloisa's cloister. ( The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
Neon Bible, Arcade Fire's second album, gave that fear a name, as the band drew inspiration from religion and the cloistering hypocrisy it seemed to represent. Arcade Fire discover beauty within the darkness of The Suburbs
The courtyard is surrounded on three sides by columned cloisters with galleries of majestic arches.
Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
On the south side of the cloisters was the refectory; the lower part of its massive north wall still remains, and in it a fine doorway, with a groined lavatory and towel recess, the work of Prior Helias about 1215. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
I regret that your post regarding retiring in Yucatan got diverted into some banal semi-intellectual discourse among cloistered word-monks of how sophisticated people refer to the anarchistic megalopolis commonly referred to about the world as Mexico City which, of course, has nothing to do with anything and much less your inquiry regarding the Yucatan Peninsula which is as removed from the Mexico City conurbation as Oughagadougou is from Beijing. Retiring in Yucatan
Enough with your slightly cloistered existence and cheap catnip toys.
She spent them often in search of coolness, sitting in cloisters of monasteries. THE GOLDEN LION
Thérèse of Lisieux who rarely talked to people outside of the cloister was the person of "the missionary spirit" and became the patron of the Mission. You report: the advance of the TLM in the Diocese of San Bernardino, California
This failure to meet publication dates highlights the problem of cloistered academics.

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