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Within one year, she gained the cloister's instinctive and submerged hostility for showing them up by gaining the affection of Mother Eustache of the Holy Terror.
INVIDIA Adriana Renescu 2012
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It was first published as a collection of games and serious ideas constructed in HyperCard using the pre-print metaphor of a * monastic library, complete with music and the sound of a cloister's fountain.
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It was first published as a collection of games and serious ideas constructed in HyperCard using the pre-print metaphor of a * monastic library, complete with music and the sound of a cloister's fountain.
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When Adelheit of Ossingen, as required by her office of cellaress, reluctantly but obediently, left the choir to provide food for the convent's guests, she halted in the cloister's garden to kneel in the snow when the bell signifying the elevation of the Host rang.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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It was first published as a collection of games and serious ideas constructed in HyperCard using the pre-print metaphor of a * monastic library, complete with music and the sound of a cloister's fountain.
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The philosophical debates and political conflict among the cloister's various factions are fun to read, the characters are interesting the main character's story is a classic bildungsroman and Stephenson's humor is well used.
The new Stephenson Tripp 2008
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The philosophical debates and political conflict among the cloister's various factions are fun to read, the characters are interesting the main character's story is a classic bildungsroman and Stephenson's humor is well used.
Archive 2008-07-01 Tripp 2008
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Mr. Moneo also designed most of the extension's furniture, including storage cabinets that open into tables for the examination of prints and drawings, and double-sided oak benches, which warm up the cloister's granite arches and bronze sculptures.
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The two men knew he was cornered now and came slowly towards him and Sharpe could only back away until his spine touched the cloister's edge.
Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999
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He held out his left hand and clicked his fingers and then led his men under the dark of the cloister's walkway, going slowly.
Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984
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