At this place the monks and nuns may be a thousand, who all receive their food from the common store, and pursue their studies, some of the mahayana and some of the hînayâna.

The monks of Citeaux, of Morimond, of Pontigny, of Clairvaux, amid the wastes of a barren country, with their white habits and perpetual vigils and haircloth shirts and root dinners and hard labors in the field, were yet the counsellors and ministers of kings and the creators of popes, and incited the nations to the most bloody and unfortunate wars in the whole history of society,I mean the Crusades.

Mr. Whitaker Monk might have been any age between thirty-five and fifty-five, so non-committal was

But Irish monks were mariners as well as apostles.

This was connected, of course, with the fact that to the early fourth century the Buddhist monks were foreigners who, in the view prevalent in the Far East, owed only a limited allegiance to the ruler of the land.

"And they actually believe that that dreadful monk with the skull is a real Ribera....

The monk on seeing him reminded him of the words of the last conversation they had had together"You cannot convince me, I am still an Atheist."

These village Buddhist monks soon became instigators of a considerable series of attempts at revolution.

The monk was Felix.

They call the places where the monks stay for a time or reside permanently Sanghârâmas; and of these there are in all five hundred, the monks being all students of the hînayâna.

The Monk is a striking figure: "His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been anoint.

"Mr. Monk, the owner, is my first cousin.

no great durationwhen Lewis' "Monk" was the most popular book in England.

The death of the exhausted, emaciated monk who had brought these tidings freed him of one fear; but this monk was Romola's brother, Dino, and obeying his summons she had been in secret to see him as he lay dying.

The fact probably was, that Monk was neither royalist nor republican: that he sought only his own interest, and had determined to watch every turn of affairs, and to declare at last in favour of that party which appeared most likely to obtain the superiority.]

"But why, then, does he not walk with her?" "Why, because, Simplicity, both of them are men, while the little Monk on his arm is a lady, as you can see, and so is the masque that has the arm of the Indian Queen; look at their little hands.

It was probably not till Monk had been some days in the capital that he made up his mind.

Irish monks were not only apostles of souls, but also masters of intellectual life.

Again she sang of love, reclinging there like an houri fit to grace the paradise of her Prophet; and the giant monk became a puppet in her hands.

His monks were hermit monks, each had, as each has still, his own little dwelling.

The monks were the best artists.

His education was directed by the monks of Cluny,that princely abbey in Burgundy where "monks were sovereigns and sovereigns were monks."

Labor, said the old monks, is worshiplaborare est orare; and thus in our lodges do we worship, working for the Word, working for the Truth, ever looking forward, casting no glance behind, but cheerily hoping for the consummation and the reward of our labor in the knowledge which is promised to him who plays no laggard's part.

In the light of the lantern I saw that this monk was a magnificent man, dark and bearded, with the eyes of a hawk, and so tall that his cowl came up to Rataplan's ears.

This famous monk (673-735) was probably the greatest teacher and the best known man of letters and scholar in all contemporary Europe.