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  • She could tempt a monk from his vows simply by walking into a room, and young men are notoriously unmonkish.

    Dearly Beloved Putney, Mary Jo 1990

  • Chartreuse; though I did not notice it there, and made a very unmonkish use of it when I gathered it last: -- There was a pretty young English lady at the table-d'hôte, in the Hotel du Mont Blanc at St. Martin's, [3] and I wanted to get speech of her, and didn't know how.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

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