cloysters

Florence; and nothing is more common, than to see the most execrable villains diverting themselves in the cloysters of some convents at Rome.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

He cloysters not his meditations in the narrow darkness of a room, but sends them abroad with his eyes, and his brain travels with his feet.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Yet notwithstanding all these things seemed afterwards to be own'd and approved by the powers then in being, when they sold all the churches lands, and many fair buildings adjoyning to the minster, were likewise pulled down and sold by publick order and authority, such were the cloysters, the old chapter-house, the library, the bishops hall and chapel at the end of it: the hall was as fair a room as most in

The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral George S. Phillips

It might, indeed, be the very dial mentioned by Evelyn in his "Diary," when, in 1653, he visited Salisbury, and "saw the Cathedral ... the cloysters of the palace and gardens and the great mural dial."

The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

On the south stood a church dedicated to St. Mary, and cloysters; the former called by Leland "not large but faire;" the

A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805

The church, cloysters, and gate-way are entirely removed, with the exception of two arches of the vault under the former, which are still to be seen firm and strong in a cellar of the house, now a boarding school.

A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805

So that these cloysters seem rather publick inns than places of sanctity.

Hau Kiou Choaan : 1761

One winter's night, Davy Ramsey, with several gentlemen, myself, and Scott, entered the cloysters; we played the hazel-rod round about the cloyster; upon the west-side of the cloysters the rods turned one over another, an argument that the treasure was there.

William Lilly's History of His Life and Times Lilly, William, 1602-1681 1715

I to Westminster Abbey, where with much difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after sermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

I to Westminster Abbey, where with much difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after sermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668