bonzes

To penetrate into the dwelling of our friends the bonzes, which is situated on the right side as you enter, is by no means an easy matter.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

To penetrate into the dwelling of our friends the bonzes, which is situated on the right hand side as you enter, is by no means an easy matter.

Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti 1886

To penetrate into the dwelling of our friends the bonzes, which is situated on the right side as you enter, is by no means an easy matter.

Madame Chrysantheme — Complete Pierre Loti 1886

The dwellings of the bonzes are the best I have seen in these parts, all of which are maintained by charitable donations.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

This prohibition, as it is not befitting the service of God and your Majesty, has cost great suffering to the archbishop of these islands, grief to all this Christian community, and wonder to the heathen Chinese -- who even among themselves respect those whom they call "bonzes," who are the same as archbishops among us.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 James Alexander Robertson 1906

That was a trick you learned early, from the regimental bonzes who instructed noblemen's sons.

do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.

Les Miserables 2008

Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Fo was a holy man, whose doctrine the bonzes have corrupted, and that Sammono-codom is the true God.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The ancient Brahmins acknowledged one only Supreme Being; the Chinese associated no inferior being with the Divinity, nor had any idol until the times when the populace were led astray by the worship of Fo, and the superstitions of the bonzes.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007