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Definition of the day : « cloister »
- noun secluded religious place
- For five years Angelique lived and grew there, as if in a cloister, far away from the world.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- But, to say he turned his eyes upon the cloister keys, is a mere figure of speech.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- The convent-bell struck midnight, and there was a foot-fall in the cloister.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 » by Various
- This enclosed, quiet residence vaguely recalled the cloister.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- Here they may have supported the wooden roof of a cloister or porch.
- Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
- And is there, think you, no way of serving God but in the sterility of the cloister?
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- Fra Gervasio was more than right when he said that mine was not a nature for the cloister.
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- It was you who taught me the lesson that the world is God's world and that God is in the world as much as in the cloister.
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- Of the third court the cloister on the western side fronts the river.
- Extract from : « England, Picturesque and Descriptive » by Joel Cook
- So, too, there is not a cloister in the world that serves the world for God's sake.
- Extract from : « The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained » by Martin Luther