monastry

• We also got to visit the village monastry before gettting back to our hotel for a quick swim in the pool and then out for some quality drinking time. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
• I can remember that how Georgians tried to turn the Armenian monastry, called Osh Vank, in eastern Turkey, to Georgian by writing Georgian words on the wall. —  Armenianow
• Gamier advised that if the ordinary régime of a well-ordered monastry, together with anaphrodisiac sedatives proved inefficacious, the manoeuvre might be continued when necessary (P. Garnier, Célibat et Célibataires_, 1887, p. 320 H.C. Coe (_American Journal of Obstetrics_, p. 766, July, 1889 gives the case of a married lady who was deeply sensitive of the wrong nature of masturbation, but found in it the only means of relieving the severe ovarian pain, associated with intense sexual excitement, which attended menstruation. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
• I mean not by solitude, that a man should retire into a cell, a desert, or a monastry: which would be altogether an useless and unprofitable restraint: for as men ate formed for society, and have an absolute necessity and dependance upon one another; so there is a retirement of the soul, with which it converses in heaven, even in the midst of men; and indeed no man is more fit to speak freely, than he who can, without any violence himself, refrain his tongue, or keep silence altogether. —  The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)
• They had entered into some discourse of the rules of the monastry, and how impossible it would have been for him to have gained an interview with mademoiselle Charlotta, but by the means she had contrived;--she told him that young lady had seen him for several days, and not doubling but it was for her sake he came, had resolved to run any risque rather than he should depart without obtaining so small a consolation as the sight of her was capable of affording. —  The Fortunate Foundlings Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

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