Reuben followed him into the cloistral odors and shadows of the sitting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
They exhaled a special cloistral odor of their own, as if they had been long imprisoned. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Sometimes he had fled in spirit to the sweet seclusion of the cloistral life at San Lazaro. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
With both the secular and the cloistral law directing, the search did not take long, and was fruitless. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
Both courts necessarily lack the cloistral charm of the Court of Abundance, since they have the fourth sides open. From Wordnik.com. [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference
We have now only four boys of tender age among us, two of them not committed to the cloistral life, but here to be educated. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
My own room, if it interests you to know, is somewhat cloistral and narrow, but it looks straight over the lawns to the hill-rise and the woods beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Flowering Wilderness] Reference
Stéphanie raised cloistral eyes from her embroidery frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
So she loved the cloistral feeling autumn brought with it to Welsley. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
She had not come to him out of cloistral purity, out of perfect radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
All these things had taken from the charm of Whitechapel, and the cloistral peace of. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
The old cloistral seclusion and exclusion is forever gone and new ideals are arising. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
The other customer had the effect of causing Constance to pop up from her cloistral corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
The growth of monasticism from the hermit stage to the cloistral life has already been described. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference
And all the time she had been here, in the midst of this cloistral silence, and perhaps often alone. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Only the creepers and the great pileated woodpeckers seemed to inhabit these truly cloistral shades. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
But the lives of men and women "who rule us from their urns" have always been more or less cloistral. From Wordnik.com. [Authors and Friends] Reference
The lady of the feather boa had evidently taken her departure, and the house had resumed its cloistral silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Lost Himself] Reference
Henceforth this familiar spot, this sad garden, whose cloistral associations charmed him, would be lost to his view. From Wordnik.com. [His Excellency the Minister] Reference
Suddenly she was startled to find that appalling temptations found even Catherine out even in her cloistral solitude. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Armenian Convent, whose cloistral buildings rise from the glassy lagoon, upon the south of the city, near a mile away. From Wordnik.com. [Venetian Life] Reference
In their busy and half cloistral life the smallest events have the interest which a prisoner feels in those of his prison. From Wordnik.com. [Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau] Reference
She remembered him as an untidy small boy who, once or twice, during his school holidays, had disturbed the cloistral peace of. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men and a Maid] Reference
Here, in this cloistral life, the fearful misfortunes which overwhelmed her for twenty-six years have been brought to a close. From Wordnik.com. [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference
Men of the Legion had planted many of the tall trees of the cloistral avenue, whose columnar trunks were darkly draped with ivy. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier of the Legion] Reference
Rosamund listened to the cloistral silence, and looked at two deep, old-fashioned arm-chairs which were drawn up by the tea-table. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
My only wonder is that those who hold this cloistral view of the province of a man of letters consider him worthy to pay income-tax. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
I was half afraid that, living here all alone with Robin, you might have become -- I don't know exactly how to put it -- become cloistral. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Soldier] Reference
It was fortunate, in one respect, for me that I had seen a little of the real world, -- the metropolitan, -- before I came to that mimic one, -- the cloistral. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Crimsoned above the water glimmered the monster-haunted rock itself, and mid-channel beyond, flat and black to the stream, stretched the Nuns 'Isle in cloistral peace. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
But then came, as it naturally would come to so charming and vigorous a lad, the strong return of that Dame Nature who had been so long forked forth by his cloistral life. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference
Following so deep a darkness, he wanted at least a cheerful dawn: not one of a penitential grey -- not a hooded dawn, as if the paths of life were to be under cloistral arches. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
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