cenobite
Example Sentences
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Her neatness and the exquisite care she took of her person had in them little of the cenobite.
From Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera
Thinner, much older, his long, spidery arms, almost colorless blond hair and eroded features gave him the air of a cenobite who had escaped from some Scandinavian wilderness into life.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
And my soul is a sepulchre where I, Ill cenobite, have spent eternity: On the vile cloister walls no pictures rise.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
And though the cenobite realises his personality, it is often an impoverished personality that he so realises.
From Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde
And though the cenobite realises his personality, it is often an impoverished personality that he so realises.
From The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde
