cenobite
Example Sentences
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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
Her neatness and the exquisite care she took of her person had in them little of the cenobite.
From Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera
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
He pushed his quarrels to the death, yet prayed The saints as fervently on bended knees As ever shaven cenobite.
From Poems by William Cullen Bryant
Brother Paphnutius, I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas
