How To Use Monk In A Sentence

I call him the little weasel, a little northern monkey. Times, Sunday Times
This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.
Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.
It shows a stag hunt, accompanied by more unlikely woodland animals such as a monkey and a tortoise. Times, Sunday Times
I instead made use of the Cluebat and asked Mike for an insight check, which revealed that the Crane's claw was still over the pool and that Vorian (Mike's monk) was within walking distance of the crane's controls. Critical Hits

So return to him, O thou monk, and say that the single combat shall take place to morrow, for this day we have come off our journey and are aweary; but after rest neither reproach nor blame fear ye. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line.
Along the rocky paths Buddhist monks appear like ghosts and vanish mysteriously into the trees.
But if there was no national style, there were local variations such as the monasteries and churches at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth in the seventh century. Early medieval architecture: a story of castles and churches
A monk will be hired to chant some Buddhist scriptures and perform a simple ceremony at the morgue instead of at a funeral parlor.
It was the size of a monkey's fist and flew into the kitchen window with a thunk.
By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
The series in fact comprises only two: one in the form of a monk's habit and cowl, and one depicting a pin-striped business suit and tie.
The city emerged from trusteeship under a new mayor, but he too cooked the books and monkeyed with zoning for his own ends.
Two monks are standing in the garden of the monastery, arguing over the nature of reality when the Roshi overhears them.
It's almost too much to take in when some mischievous monkeys try to hitch a ride with us. The Sun
So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys. Jay Weston: Do Monkeys Make Good Pets?
The monks of Vera Cruz can best tell thee where little 'thumbkin' is. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
Moreover, he believed very firmly in Christianity as the way of saving human beings, and he addicted to a monkish life.
The teacher suspected that there had been some monkey business going on in the class.
His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
And the vervet monkey, Larry, they're in troops of 50 to 100 to 200.
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Kendo then took the prey from Fitz, having let him tear out a large piece of the monkey's intestines.
My children could spend hours watching playful monkeys at the primate exhibit.
I badly wanted to go on to see the monkey-puzzle forests at the foot of the Andes, to drive the cattle to high summer pasture.
Or Wulfgar, who was clever as a cageful of monkeys and who was as much a pleasure in company as Raven-or as skilled in his own way as Cedric. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.
It was the organ-grinder they were here to see, not the monkey. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
The same agents sold a three-bedroom mews, Beiginish on Stable Lane in Monkstown, following its withdrawal from auction at €650,000.
And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
The oil drum where the male monkey had been sitting began to wobble from side to side and finally toppled right over.
Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
But all that is over now, all those ape cartoons and monkey trials. The Times Literary Supplement
Coat color colorful monkeys snub - nosed monkey is unique to China.
The other group of 30 monkeys lives on Mount Ohira in central Japan.
The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family (or by the monastic infirmarer, in the case of a monk or nun), and either shrouded or placed in a coffin.
In addition, the teams surveyed the numbers of other plants and animals including endangered golden monkeys, elephants, and forest buffalo.
It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
In the past year alone, numerous studies have highlighted our remarkable likeness not only to chimps, but to monkeys and apes of all kinds.
Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? Christianity Today
But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman's father came on my "Con Games" radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue. Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
Achan, the head monk, draped in the colours of the dawn, unlatches the door to a large metal cage.
This was true even though an education by Catholic monks offered alternative possibilities.
This proved to be true; she negotiated sideways through the door, beaming, a loaded tray in one hand, the other wrapped round Henri-Christian, who clung to her, monkeylike. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
It is a way of mutual support - lay people supply food, medicine, and cloth for robes, and monks give spiritual support, blessings, and teachings.
Instantly a dozen knowing eyes were fixed on it, and a buzz of voices was heard; and soon Gerard saw the prior point more than once, and the monk came back, looking as proud as Punch, with a savoury crustade ryal, or game pie gravied and spiced, for Gerard, and a silver grace cup full of rich pimentum. The Cloister and the Hearth
Also, there is the mythological theme of the Monkey King, who has partaken of the Peach of Immortality.
Lizards scurry in the leaf litter at my feet, monkeys feed noisily in the branches above nay head, a vine snake makes its sinuous way toward an unsuspecting small bird.
everyone at work seems to have a monk on today
An elderly monk presented with a sharp thoracic back pain of sudden onset and shortness of breath.
Flying monkey, griffon, and unicorn -- the least horrifying taxidermy creatures on display (and for sale) at Sarina Brewer's site. Taxidermy fantasy creatures
In December 1997, a technician at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center was splashed in the eye with body fluid from a monkey infected with Herpes B; she died six weeks later as a result.
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As she lies in bed one night, she is overjoyed to hear the monkeys call from the young forest.
A baby monkey clasps its mother's fur tightly.
The award recognized the challenges involved in the building project and its sympathetic approach to the hermitage, which provides a place for the hermit monks, both male and female to live a life of solitude.
The monkey learns to administer himself a dose of whatever it is he wants by pulling the right lever. BLACK EAGLES
The monkeyrunner tool is not related to the UI/Application Exerciser Monkey, also known as the monkey tool.
Alice squealed with sheer delight when she saw the monkeys.
It ends 16 hours later with compline, after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
This suggests a certain diminished tolerance for what is defined as antisocial behavior; Eric Monkkonen, on the other hand, in “A Disorderly People?” A History of American Law
The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks.
After all, it was assumed that all monks could read and write. Monasteries also contained libraries and scriptoria, or writing rooms, in which manuscripts were copied.
I am bored by Monkey Wood's blantant over-use of charientism and cacophemism for my darkie brethren - it is an abomination to the Lord - who is ironically my next door neighbour ". TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
Meanwhile, guests were once allowed to walk in a room among uncaged monkeys. The Sun
The present study was therefore undertaken to compare the distribution of the three islet cell types in the native and in isolated islets of rats and monkeys by immunocytochemistry.
They were settled into a den in the ape and monkey pavilion, which will be their quarters during six months of quarantine. Times, Sunday Times
His favorite species for this work are chimpanzees, bonobos, and capuchin monkeys.
The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
Macaws, owls, monkeys and agouti were in cages draped in foliage - a sort of home away from home - and watched closely by officials of the Emperor Valley Zoo.
A last ray of burning rusty light glanced off the monkey bars, where Wyatt remembered playing, himself as a kid.
The monks were chiefly responsible for preserving this teaching, since it was largely directed to them.
The excellent Armonico Consort musicians and singers, directed by Christopher Monks, create a background to which the action unfolds.
Monkeys have a minor version of our tendency to use the left brain for listening carefully to rapid sound sequences.
Today, Mount Athos is home to some 1,800 monks living in 20 monasteries and outlying hermitages. A Fossil With Flesh
“The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart,” said De Bracy. Ivanhoe
The Indochinese tiger, Asian elephant and endemic species like the saola, Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and Siamese crocodile are on the verge of extinction in the country. Javan rhino driven to extinction in Vietnam, conservationists say
It is your special responsibility, dear monks, to be living examples of this interior and profound relationship with him, implementing without compromise the program that your founder summarized in the "nihil amori Christi praeponere" [put nothing before the love of Christ.] (Rule 4.21). More from Montecassino
We visit a holy place, which accommodates the mummy of a monk.
He developed the idea facetiously, whilst John regarded him as he might have watched a performing monkey. New Grub Street
The Monkees played a post-game concert there after a Rapids match.
He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.
A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described. New Saddleback Tamarin
This night, the turtle was laying her eggs on a low shelf of sand near a line of dune scrub and low palms, not far from dense jungle that is home to the deadly fer-de-lance snake, caimans, howler monkeys and sloths.
The pet monkey was an occasional guest at dinner parties.
He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
There's the monkey funeral out there in one of the windows of the north nave aisle and this in here.
Tribes of these red-bottomed monkeys regularly overrun government office compounds.
Nyika is well known for its wild flowers and birds, also in addition the one park where roan antelope are common, zebra, eland, common duiker, reedbuck, bushbuck, blue monkey and leopard are also present.
The monks also study various subjects of Buddhist sutra and tantra of both the Ancient and New traditions.
Solovetski monks and join the Kojeozerski community in the same neighbourhood, of which he became hegumen in 1643. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
The diminutive monkey in front of me puts a hard palm nut, the size of its fist, into one of the many small pits on the rock surface.
The monkey descended from the tree.
The chain sinnet aka chain braid, daisy chain, or monkey braid is a cable shortening and storing method that can be used to make stray cables a little more pleasing to the eye. Use A Chain Sinnet To Tidy Cables | Lifehacker Australia
In an auditorium in Taipei, about 400 relatives also took part in a Buddhist ceremony with monks chanting softly and drumming lightly on wooden blocks.
I looked out the window and saw a furry brown monkey squatting on the roof of a nearby building.
The local name (endonym) for Munich is München, derived from Mönch (monk) as the city was founded by Benedictine monks in 1158. Answers.com: Today's Highlights
The book clearly states that the "lamasery" of Shangri-La was in Tibet, that the native people were Tibetans, spoke the Tibetan language, practiced Tibetan Buddhism and polyandry, wore sheepskin robes and yak leather boots and believed that they were "descended from monkeys". Phayul Latest News
Look, here is an instruction. " Sharp-eyed Monkey Congcong is the first to find the instruction. Everyone comes around him.
Where monks sat in quiet contemplation, guests now seek sanctuary from the city's bustle amid lush palms and ivy.
He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure. BLACK EAGLES
The haunting became so intense that in 1999 Buddhist monks were invited to the museum to offer foods to propitiate the restless souls of the victims who had been murdered there.
Over Monk Bridge, which was widened in the 1900s, we pass the site of the enlarged gasworks, long since demolished.
The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? Christianity Today
On the coasts of New Andalusia, the cuspa is considered as a kind of cinchona; and we were assured, that some Aragonese monks, who had long resided in the kingdom of New Grenada, recognised this tree from the resemblance of its leaves to those of the real Peruvian bark-tree. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Why bother with monkeys when you can deal with the organ-grinder ? TANK OF SERPENTS
I remembered myself, and bowed my head to him, and said to him, ‘Here is the monk.’
Also known as groundnuts or monkey nuts, peanuts are actually legumes.
Ian said: ‘I was really angry when I discovered our Green Monkey had been half-inched.’
Overseen by evangelist monks Charlemagne's conquering Franks meet fierce resistance from Saxon tribesmen.
The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow? The Rules of the Game
The monks clearly embrace modernity with enthusiasm.
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. Mark Twain
Icons were painted by faithful painters - usually monks - in monastic seclusion.
Jensom led them all into a bright room, filled with monks inscribing words of wisdom onto tablets and papyrus.
Thirdly, Nosey, wi 'his kilt, and bannet, and red coat, was, to a' intents and purposes, as like a human creatur as a monkey could weel be. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
Peter Tork, best known for his time in The Monkees, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called adenoid cystic carcinoma, according to March 4 reports. Lead Stories from AOL
Sera is one of the three great Gelug monastic universities where monks do intensive study and training in Buddhist philosophy.
We are not monkeys dancing to the foreign organ grinder's tune. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the shortage of qualified dhammaduta monks, scattered across the West there are a few Theravada viharas and Buddhist centres whose incumbents, in their own quiet and non-assertive way, are working to spread the Dhamma.
With this deletion, the chimeric virus was less able to replicate itself when injected into the monkeys.
So there I was in the paddock when I'm flattened by some idiot running into me on a monkey bike!
His daughter looked like a chained monkey being whipped and dragged roughly along, leaping silently but wildly from side to side.
Walking starkers through the forest, incredibly agile, never get tired, killed a monkey in a tree with a blowpipe.
The monkeys were in some enclosure called the skyway or gymnasium or another similar stupidity. Monkey House
You might want to put the anabasis on your list of things Monk might like to read in a few years. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Woke up, coughing...
In southern Florida, utility companies now grapple with monk parakeets and the massive, nettlesome nests they build atop transmission poles.
The villagers support their monks with food, gifts, and offerings to Buddha.
Simakobus are medium-sized monkeys, weighing about 20 pounds.
Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
Why talk to the monkey when you can talk to the organ grinder? Times, Sunday Times
Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill, Africa's largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait.
Conclusion:Rhesus monkey xenoreactive natural antibody titers are greatly different among individuals. It is necessary to detect the antibody before using rhesus monkeys for xenograft studding.
Jon plumped for the main course of skewered collops of Mallaig monkfish, but wasn't too keen on the other half of the combo, that Shetland salmon.
Human as it sounds, loss aversion appears to be a trait we've inherited genetically because it is found in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys. Archive 2008-04-01
The broiled rouget (with daikon radish and crunchy yellow lentils) had a similarly monkish, almost dried-out quality.
At a typical concert they dress as monks, grinding out slow, heavy riffs while dry ice lends the vibe of an apocalyptic wasteland. Times, Sunday Times
There was a freebie starter of baby spring roll stuffed with duck confit and deep-fried fillet of monkfish.
The bodies in the cathedral were already being gathered by monks and laid out in state at one end of the nave.
He was afraid his past would always be a monkey on his back.
He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there.
Religion is practised passionately with many a young boy aspiring to become a Buddhist monk.
Redid a 5.9 on the slab, got farther than before on a balancy stretchy slopy misrated 5.8 (it's a 5. 9+ or I'm a monkey), and got one move farther on my 5.10 - project. In which our heroine begs for death.
Mr. Monkey turns out to be a moth-eaten glove puppet.
To be honest I don't give a monkey's what they do.
As a teenager, he was set on becoming a Franciscan monk until he took high school acting lessons.
If you've ever been there, you know that nobody there would ever monkey around with a security badge.
And nobody would give a monkey's whether they bred or not? The Sun
The facades on the buildings that conform the quadrangle are adorned with elaborate representations of Mayan huts, rectangles and Chac masks, with superimposed ornaments such as carved loops, lattices, small columns, human shapes, birds and monkeys. The Maya civilization, cities of the Maya
He left his successful business and life of luxury to become a monk.
The monkey scratched about in its mate's fur for fleas.
This is just the place for those who like to monkey around.
An assembly of 90 monks conducted Buddhist ritual chants and prayers sanctifying the ceremony.
Luther always claimed to have been a good, if somewhat overscrupulous monk, and Lortz found no evidence whatever to doubt his claim.
cloaked monks
A salmagundi of Italian marble, Japanese carpet, matched rosewood, Hawaiian monkeypod wood, gold foil and tropical fish, the Sahara Inn is like a movie set for a dream sequence in a musical starring George Jessel and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Another virus managed to get transferred from a species of monkey called the sooty mangabey, and this is known as HIV - 2.
While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk, it also renders his portrait mundane.
Leopards are after all quite as at home in the treetops as they are and on occasion are partial to monkey.
The brown capuchin monkey, a seed predator, can recognize which fruits are about to open on a Cariniana micrantha tree, above.
And try not to poke your camera in the monks' faces at the traditional morning alms-giving in Luang Prabang.
There the wounded monk leaned against the door-post, his red sword drooping to the floor. The Lady of Blossholme
The regime has since closed monastic colleges and sent member monks back to their respective villages. Times, Sunday Times
There is general agreement that the most outstanding of all Galician wine is the white Albarino from the Val de Salnes, introduced from the Rhine by Benedictine monks from Cluny during the twelfth century.
Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform.
The Mamirauá Reserve is home to the two narrow endemics, white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii). Purus varzea
Twenty minutes in, I was so disorientated, I approached a pet stall and asked if I could take a photo of the unfamiliar creature for sale next to the monkeys - it was, in my defence, a particularly unlovely baby.
Landowners in Winterbourne Monkton had an Act of Parliament passed in 1813 to enable them to enclose common land in the parish.
The study showed a high incidence of birth defects in rhesus monkeys that had been given the drug during pregnancy," he answered quietly. THE ASSOCIATE
Now he enjoys the popularity that being the worlds oldest benedictine monk brings.
Monkey tests lift hopes for Aids vaccine *.
He was an officer in the Irish Guards before becoming a novice monk in the Benedictine Order in 1955.
The climb tackles the east face of the cliff's most imposing feature, the Monkey Face.
(The monkey fern is a favorite even though it is a little creepy.) Exotica « Awful Library Books
Loudest mammal - the Blue Whale. The second loudest is the Howler Monkey.
Then the door opened and it was back to monkey business as usual. Times, Sunday Times
I paused to watch, and a few minutes later, several monkeys emerged from the dense forest and came to sit on a piece of dead wood jutting into the water, eyeing me up inquisitively.
Like, there was this little capuchin monkey named Crystal, and then [after seeing the film] 'Whoa, that's Adam Sandler, ''' laughs Dawson.
Threatened or now rare species also include blue monkey Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanii, yellow-backed duiker Cephalophus sylvicultor, sitatunga Tragelophus spekei, giant hog, hylochoerus meinertzhageni, bushpig potomochoerus porcus, the Rwenzori hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus ruwenzorii and Ruwenzori otter-shrew Micropotamogale ruwenzorii (EN). Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda
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It is not the hood that makes the monk.
Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
For example, Itzaj form a group of arboreal animals, including monkeys as well as tree-dwelling procyonids (kinkajou, cacomistle, raccoon) and squirrels (a rodent). How To Study Intuitions: Examples from the Adult and Developmental Literatures
Exposed to the light, the monk's inner demons and the phantasms of his dreams would no longer seem quite as frightening or threatening.
He spread the word to his fellow monks, who experimented with other ways to consume the berries.
The article in the New York Post serval months ago, which depicted Obama asw a monkey. White House: Obama doesn't think race a factor
Come on boys , let's cut out the monkey business and get down to work.
His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey. Father Sergius
The previous Eccentric Club, started in 1890 by Jack Harrison, a theatrical costumier and the father of popular musical comedy actresses Phyllis Monkman, Dorothy Monkman and Beryl Harrison, from its humble beginnings in Shaftesbury Avenue rose to become one of the most influential artistic and business establishments in Britain as well as one of its most generous charities. Archive 2008-08-01
Eventually I got to drive one of the motor boats up and down the river, to Bishopthorpe Palace and Nun Monkton.
The breadfruit trees, cycads and tall hardwoods of that forest hide hornbills, sea eagles and monkeys.

How To Use Monk In A Sentence

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