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His tonsure was positively monasterial, and it bothered him.

Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994

What a palatial kitchen and more than monasterial refectory!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

The judicial position of the clergy received another blow by the promulgation of the so-called monastyrskij prikaz (monasterial ordinance).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

An hour, two hours passed, and they then approached the monasterial ruin of which Boland had spoken.

No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

An hour, two hours passed, and they then approached the monasterial ruin of which Boland had spoken.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

An hour, two hours passed, and they then approached the monasterial ruin of which Boland had spoken.

No Defense, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897

In the Capitulary which enjoins the foundation of monasterial and cathedral schools, he says: "Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right."

Science & Education Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

The mission-houses were in the monasterial style, many of them on a grand scale -- mansions in fact, with roomy refectories, and kitchens to correspond; snug sitting and sleeping-chambers; well-paved courts and spacious gardens attached.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

One hundred and seventy-one in all -- of which 155 are parochial, five monasterial, and eleven conventual.

Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Translated from the Spanish, by R. R. Madden, M.D. With the History of the Early Life of the Negro Poet, Written by Himself; to Which Are Prefixed Two Pieces Descriptive of Cuban Slavery and the Slave-Traffic, by R. R. M. 1840

The church sells religious goods in places like the golden-domed Holy Trinity monasterial complex in Sergiyev Posad, 100 miles northwest of Moscow, where on a recent day pilgrims lined up in the cold to kiss the sarcophagus of St. Sergius, one of Russia's patron saints.

Statesman - AP Sports 2009