anchorhold

Still, I don't think I'm searching for an anchorhold anytime soon.

Column: Stretched between heaven and earth Michelle 2009

Still, I don't think I'm searching for an anchorhold anytime soon.

Archive 2009-06-01 Michelle 2009

Never mind the mad lion, this is enough to drive me to barricade myself in my room, if not seek an anchorhold within the walls of my parish church.

Column: Stretched between heaven and earth Michelle 2009

Never mind the mad lion, this is enough to drive me to barricade myself in my room, if not seek an anchorhold within the walls of my parish church.

Archive 2009-06-01 Michelle 2009

Yet I crave the contact of the internet in my island anchorhold.

Useless Cat Is Useless yuki_onna 2009

She is closed up, alone, in a small cell attached to a church, called an anchorhold.

Rules for Anchorites yuki_onna 2008

And before we could recover the fleet a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, and some were forced to sea in great peril, as the bark

Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges

And before we could recover the fleet a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, and some were forced to sea in great peril, as the bark Talbot, the bark Hawkins, and the Speedwell; which Speedwell only was driven into England, the others recovered us again.

Drake’s Great Armada 1909

Every anchorhold was built close to a church, so as to allow its occupant the privilege of seeing the performance of mass, and of receiving the consecrated wafer, by the protrusion of his tongue through the narrow slit.

One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Derette had gone to see her cousins at the Castle, -- a sort of farewell visit before entering the anchorhold.

One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864