The remains of its ancient citadel stand on a height which completely commands the city; on another height stands a monastery, a magnificent building.

The gipsies retired to the monastery of the Augustin friars, in which they fortified themselves: the bourgeois besieged them, and would have committed summary justice on them, but the authorities interfered, and some twenty of the vagrants were arrested, but they sued for mercy, and were discharged.

The abbot of St. Denis in France had in a similar manner to bring from Rheims with great pomp, and deposit by the side of the holy vial, the royal insignia, which were kept in the treasury of his monastery, and had been there since the reign of Charlemagne.

The degradation of kings and princes was carried out in a public manner by shaving their heads and sending them into a monastery; on their regaining their rights and their authority, their hair was always allowed to grow again.

A woman of her own years, also acquainted with grief, came to companion the old woman, a sort of lay sister in this little monastery of grief.

At Amalfi they found lodgings in the Franciscan monastery, which is still used as an inn, and here I shall again quote from the journal: "The place is in decay and is an excellent specimen of their monastic buildings.

They were in a monastery near the bridge at which the Germans were directing their shells, several of which had already fallen into the building.

The priest and the two nuns, the sole occupants of the monastery, absolutely refused to leave.

They wished to protect the monastery from sacrilege, and in that cause they held their lives of small account.

Amongst its other antiquities are the Grey Friars, (a monastery,) the Bulwark, (a trench on the side of the town that fronts the river,) and the Priory.

Little or nothing is known of the monastery which doubtless existed somewhere hereabouts prior to the dissolution in Henry VIII.'s reign.

Perhaps this vaulted Gothic chamber is a remnant of the old monastery, the site of which is not known.

It is doubtless a remnant of an old monastery, and dates back to Norman times.

Close to the church of Quenington are the remnants of an ancient monastery.

The farmer by whom it is inhabited tells me that, judging by the fish-ponds situated close by, he imagines it was once a monastery.

As the time drew near when I was to forsake the world and retire to a monastery, I revolted in horror at the career before me, and refused to take the vows.

"At the darkest hour of the night we passed through the door, and crawled through the dreadful passages beneath the monastery.

They were wedded, so Isidora believed, by a hermit in a ruined monastery.

"Then the king did as his father bade him ere he was dead; he then distributed treasures for his father's soul to each monastery that was in England; to some ten marks of gold, to some six; to each upland church sixty pence.

However, none will doubt that a monastery once stood upon Innisfallen island, for its ruins may still be seen; neither, that within its walls dwelt certain pious and learned persons called monks.

In the rosy dawn of a summer's morning he had left the monastery of Innisfallen, and he now felt in every sight and sound the dreariness of winter; the hard ground was covered with withered leaves; icicles depended from leafless branches; he heard the sweet low note of the robin, who familiarly approached him; and he felt his fingers numbed by the nipping frost.

Father Cuddy waddled, as fast as cramped limbs could carry his rotund corporation, to the gate of the monastery, where he loudly demanded admittance.

Charles repaired, with some of his councillors, to the monastery of the Cordeliers, where the estates were holding their sittings, and there he received their representations.

This place is close to the monastery of St. Corneille-de-Compiegne.

The inhabitants perceived that there would be danger if the enemy occupied this point; and, after having obtained authority from the lord-regent of France and the abbot of the monastery, they settled themselves there, provided themselves with arms and provisions, and appointed a captain taken from among themselves, promising the regent that they would defend this place to the death.