Gundulf the Weeper and Henry the Builder; one a poor Norman monk, the other a great English king.

No monk at Bec could cry so often and so much as Gundulf.

One piece of sculpture I remembera carving of a cow, a milkmaid, and a monk, in reference to the legend that the site of the cathedral was, in some way, determined by a woman bidding her cow go home to Dunholme.

He was clad in black, and looked like a feathered ecclesiastic; but I know not whether it were Bishop Dennison's ghost or that of some old monk.

Or if I shall see a monk or a friar climb up a ladder at midnight into a virgin's or widow's chamber window, I shall hardly think he then goes to administer the sacraments, or to take her confession.

And which Brochard, the monk, in his description of the Holy Land, after he had censured the Greek church, and showed their errors, concluded at last, Faxit Deus ne Latinis multa irrepserint stultifies, I say God grant there be no fopperies in our church.

That which is written of Saint Francis' five wounds, and other such monastical effects, of him and others, may justly be referred to this our melancholy; and that which Matthew Paris relates of the monk of Evesham, who saw heaven and hell in a vision; of [6470]Sir Owen, that went down into Saint Patrick's purgatory in King Stephen's days, and saw as much; Walsingham of him that showed as much by Saint Julian.

Bellovacus cured a monk by altering his habit, and course of life:

capuchino, m., Capuchin monk cara, f., face, countenance, expression, head. caracolear, to caracole; caracoleando en sus corceles, on their prancing steeds. carácter, m., character, disposition. caracterizar, to characterize, describe.

VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS.Chaste Tree, Hemp Tree, and Monk's Pepper-tree.

Tyre had once the honour to be taken by Prince Rupert, and long before that its nucleus had existed as a monk's ferry, by which travellers were rowed across the river to the monastery and posting-house at Sidon.

At Bethlehem, which I visited this morning, the Latin monk who showed us the manger, the pit where 12,000 innocents were buried, and other things, had much less to say of the sacredness or authenticity of the place, than of the injustice of allowing the Greeks a share in its possession.

We removed our shoes at the entrance, and were taken by a Greek monk, first into a sort of ante-chamber, lighted with golden lamps, and having in the centre, inclosed in a case of marble, the stone on which the angel sat.

As we turned to leave, a monk appeared with a bowl of sacred rose-water, which he sprinkled on our hands, bestowing a double portion on a rosary of sandal-wood which I carried

As he said this, there was such entire, absolute belief in the good monk's eyes, and such happiness in that belief, that not for ten times the gold on the shrine would I have expressed a doubt of the story.

In a sort of cell formed among the ruins we found two monk-hermits.

The wild geese followed Klarälven as far as the big iron foundries at Monk Fors.

Lewis' romance of "The Monk" is a great favorite in Germany.

Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1775-1818, published Ambrosio or the Monk in 1795.ED.

A monk of the Abbey of Cluny once went on a visit to his relations.

" This simple legend belongs to the tenth century; and notwithstanding that the opinion of this Benedictine monk may appear strange nowadays, yet it must be acknowledged that he was only conforming himself to the opinions laid down by certain theologians.

c. A simple anecdote, handed down by the monk of St. Gall, who wrote in the ninth century, proves to us that the traditions with regard to cheeses were not lost in the time of Charlemagne: "The Emperor, in one of his travels, alighted suddenly, and without being expected, at the house of a bishop.

He loved the garish world; he was in love with every woman; but the true revolutionist must be the modern monk.

But, whenever they fell in with a monk or priest, he pulled a long face and sought the reverend father's blessing, and fearlessly poured out on him floods of German words in such order as not to produce a single German sentence.

I am a priest, a monk, and though my heart break I must be firm.