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from The Century Dictionary.
- Monastically.
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But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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