cenobite
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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
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
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
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
About the close of the fourth century the cenobite system was introduced into Europe, and in an astonishingly short space of time spread throughout all the western countries where Christianity had gained a foothold.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
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