abbot's

Adam O'RiordanA Lychee for A.E.Before the ring, before the web of beautiful promises,Love, I give you this: Stripped to the flesh, dark rind discarded like an abbot's robe,the sleek globe glowslike a paper lantern in a summer garden.

Poems for a wedding 2011

Dramatic ironies multiply as the first of the new scientists scoffs at an abbot's quaint belief in evolution.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

At this hour the monks themselves were at their meal in the refectory, and the abbot's guests with him at his own table in his lodging.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

In Peregrinatio religionis ergo (ca. 1512), Erasmus recounts an abbot's jewel-by-jewel discourse at Canterbury, performed in the tradition of Abbot Suger of St. Denis.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Yes, Hugh had put a guard on the gate from the moment the crime was known, but three people had been let out, all the same, the three who could not possibly have killed, since they had been in the abbot's company and Hugh's throughout.

A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

Small blame to him, the implication had certainly been there in the abbot's incomplete instruction to him.

A River So Long 2010

The abbot's nephew is the boy who's determined to learn the art of illuminating the monks 'manuscripts.

The 'Riffs Interview: 'Secret of Kells' filmmaker TOMM MOORE 2010

Hugh, coming from the abbot's lodging, between haste to impart what he knew, and reluctance to deliver what could only be disturbing news, found his friend standing thus motionless in the middle of his small, beloved kingdom, staring rather within his own mind than at the straggling, autumnal growth about him.

A River So Long 2010

For much of that time, there have been rumors about the married abbot's sexual liaisons, with his students and with other women.

Buddhist Sex Abuse: Scandal Has U.S. Buddhists Looking Within 2010

There was no one obviously watching as they rode out from the gate, though there may have been eyes on them from the shelter of cloister or infirmary, or even from the abbot's lodging.

A River So Long 2010