Meanings of few monks in English

We found the monastery rather dismantled and but few monks in attendance.

The Igumen and the few monks and visitors gave me the Serb point of view.

The missionaries found a land almost without religion, with few temples and few monks or priests.

There is a monastery nearby, with a few monks and some women and children in hiding.

A few monks had crept in, but they were turned out by the heathen with bitter jeers, as unbidden intruders.

If there are no men and mules left, there are very few monks either, after the many suppressions of convents.

But we were speaking of the exodus of a few monks from the great cenoby on the eastern side of Jordan.

Their monasteries surrounded by soldiers, few monks went out on the daily alms collection on which they depend for food, residents said.

To-day a few monks are permitted to live in the great houses teaching music and providing for the wants of the devout pilgrims.

The truth is that, whatever a few monks and physicians may have thought of it, the proposed expedition terrified the ordinary seafaring population of Palos.

There is a brewery where excellent beer is made, as good as that of Chiavenna-anda monastery where a few monks still continue to reside.

There were a few monks about, passing and repassing, but they paid no attention to us, and we, too, were silent in that quiet place.