Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were bounded by the cloister walls; her highest ambition being to raise St. Hilda's fame.

This seemed very strange to the monk, indeed marvelous; but he walked on to the cloister gate and timidly rang the bell.

They are arranged in a quadrangular form, enclosing a grassy cloister garth.

"Thou and I, my brother, have attained by penances and years of abnegation to that mood which hath been granted the boy as a gift to fit him for the cloister life.

The voice of blasphemy the fane alarms, The cloister startles at the gleam of arms.

Every thing had become larger, more beautiful, and older,the buildings, the garden; and in the place of the low, humble cloister church, a lofty minster with three towers reared its head to the sky.

They cross the Calle de la Dormitaleria and go through the two patios into the cloisters and enter the Cathedral by the cloister door.

Here, "In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim," where he "Saw nought lovely but the sky and stars," one of some seven hundred Blue-Coat boys, Coleridge lived for nine years.

Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windowsthe south and east orielsare of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

To begin with, let me tell you that I have retreated into my cloister cell, where the sun, which is just now rising, shines horizontally into my room, and does not leave me till he sets, so that he is often uncomfortably importunateso much so that for a time I really have to shut him out.

The "Triumph of S. Thomas Aquinas," in this cloister-chapel, has long been declared the work of Taddeo Gaddi.

Brooding over these questions, he observed two men hard by in the old cloister garden, one of lofty stature, nearer forty than fifty years of age, the other younger and shorter, with a pale face redeemed from ugliness by its intellectual brow.

You will hear the song of the cloister robbery; of Herr Carl who was sick to death; when the young nun entered the corpse chamber, sat down by his feet and whispered how sincerely she had loved him, and the knight rose from his bier and bore her away to marriage and pleasure in Copenhagen.

A breeze as pure as the breath of Heaven Blew fresh through the cloister-shades, A sky as glad as the smile of Heaven Blushed rose o'er the minster-glades.

The moon was rising and cast a white light down upon the delicate stone-work of the cloister windows.

Yet let me in a cloister dwell, The veiled inmate of a cell; To raise this cowering soul by prayer!

Only when I stood at the west entrance of the Cathedral I could discern, spreading up the dark nave, to the lantern, to the choir, a phantasmagorical mass of forms: I went a little inward, and striking three matches, peered nearer: the two transepts, too, seemed crowdedthe cloister-doorway was blockedthe southwest porch thronged, so that a great congregation must have flocked hither shortly before their fate overtook them.

The Herald lives in cloister grey; He lives by clerkly rules; He dreams in coats and colours gay, In argent, or and gules; He blazons knightly shield and banner In dim monastic hall, And in a grave and reverend manner He earns his bread withal.

When nothing more adventurous befell, he chopped down trees for the cloister hearths.

These two are men who till the cloister lands Of Engelberg, and live behind the forest.

By the Boniet River, at Drumahaire, on the banks of Lough Gill, are the mason marks of the cloister builders, and the figure of St. Francis talking to the birds is still there.

The interior court is partly surrounded by a colonnade, quite cloister-like in effect.

But in the abbey at that time was a cloister-monk named Friar John of the Trenchermen, young, gallant, frisky, lusty, nimble, quick, active, bold, resolute, tall, wide-mouthed, and long-nosed; a fine mumbler of matins, a fair runner through masses, and a great scourer of vigilsto put it short, a true monk, if ever there was one since the monking world monked a monkery.

A spacious open square or atrium, surrounded by a cloister-portico, gave access to the church.

the cloister pump, I suppose!" Touching Boyer's cruelty, Coleridge adds that his "severities, even now, not seldom furnish the dreams by which the blind fancy would fain interpret to the mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep.