Is there anything stirring in the monkery, more than common?

Maybe they chose a hard death-perhapsthat was the secret of the whole monkery game!

And then your father followed you...and the great house on the hill went for a Trappist monkery..

One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.

In the Twelfth Century a college was merely a monkery that took in boarders, and learning was acquired by absorption.

Luther had grasped the fundamental idea in monkery quite well: flight from the secular life as a means to become exceptionally holy.

He thought he had found in monkery a gold-mine of holiness that would be sufficient not only for himself, but also for his parents.

By their own principles monkery is not a natural life; yet, when a monk fails in his monkery, they fault him for not being natural.

Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves?

Sir Morgan Mumchance, of Much Monkery, in the county of Mad Mopery.

Monkery was broken up, like a ship dashed against the shores of the bay of Biscay.

Milksops I hate, and send to the monkeries.

Monkery being extinguished above eighty or ninety years, and the Lord General's name being Monk, is the dead man.

"We need a market town, not a monkery."

"Is that what they teach in the monkery?"

There was sanctuary in those times, in the monkeries-andthe churches, where the soldiers of the king dared not go, for fear of God.