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Cloister in sentence

32 examples of Cloister in a sentence

He's the type of ruthless criminal who could corrupt a cloister of nuns and he leaves a trail of misery wherever his path takes him.
building where the victim lived; the stair-climbing climax to the top of the cloister tower, i mean State of Liberty, i mean skyscraper.
It is a documentary on the Grande Chartreuse cloister situated in a deep valley above the city of Grenoble, France.
They awaited their leader in the sombre, gothic cloister of the ancient abbey.
At length they arrived at the door of the cloister.
He held me in talk so long, till at last he drew me out of the raffling place to the shop-door, and then to a walk in the cloister, still talking of a thousand things cursorily without anything to the purpose.
picked up in the worst of all holes, the cloister, among the dirt and filth of all the town!
'What adventure?' said he.'Why,' said she, 'of your being robbed coming from Knightbr----; Hampstead, sir, I should say,' says she.'Be not surprised, sir,' says she, 'that I am able to tell you every step you took that day from the cloister in Smithfield to the Spring Garden at Knightsbridge, and thence to the ---- in the Strand, and how you were left asleep in the coach afterwards.
This enclosed, quiet residence vaguely recalled the cloister.
Her spacious, and slightly cold room rather pleased her, with its lofty ceiling, its obscure corners, and its smack of the cloister.
I withdrew at once with the Morisco into the cloister of the cathedral, and begged him to turn all these pamphlets that related to Don Quixote into the Castilian tongue, without omitting or adding anything to them, offering him whatever payment he pleased.
Porthos, yielding to the pressure of the arm of the procurator’s wife, as a bark yields to the rudder, arrived at the cloister St. Magloire--a little-frequented passage, enclosed with a turnstile at each end.
Porthos went away after having appointed a meeting with the procurator’s wife in the cloister of St. Magloire.
Coquenard repaired trembling to the cloister of St. Magloire, for she guessed the reproaches that awaited her there; but she was fascinated by the lofty airs of Porthos.
There is very little amusement in the cloister, and the good superior was eager to make the acquaintance of her new boarder.
"I will enter a cloister; I will become a nun," said Milady.
"You were in a cloister," said the executioner, "and you left it to ruin my brother."
A moment later, he had disappeared through the "Red Door," which then led from the church to the cloister.
From the cloister, his reputation as a learned man had passed to the people, among whom it had changed a little, a frequent occurrence at that time, into reputation as a sorcerer.
The curfew of the cloister sounded at the moment when Master Jacques was repeating to his companion in low tones, his eternal refrain, "He is mad!"
It was the hour when no stranger could remain in the cloister.
But fasting, prayer, study, the mortifications of the cloister, rendered my soul mistress of my body once more, and then I avoided women.
The cloister door was shut; but the archdeacon always carried with him the key of the tower in which his laboratory was situated.
Hence, condemned men were to be seen whose hair had grown white in a cloister, on the steps of a palace, in the enclosure of an abbey, beneath the porch of a church; in this manner the asylum was a prison as much as any other.
When he heard this news, he shut himself in his cell in the cloister.
From that window, situated in the cloister, he could see la Esmeralda's chamber.
He knew where to find the key to the red door, which connected the cloister with the church, and he always had about him, as the reader knows, the key of the staircase leading to the towers.
Jehan made him a deep bow, and descended the cloister stairs, whistling.
At the moment when he was passing through the courtyard of the cloister, beneath his brother's window, he heard that window open, raised his eyes and beheld the archdeacon's severe head emerge.
"And how are we to get out again?""Behind the cloister there is a little door which opens on the Terrain and the water.