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Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries was the largest legally enforced transfer of property in English history since the Norman Conquest.monasteries = residences of religious communities
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During her travels, she found peace and tranquility in the serene surroundings of the ancient monastery nestled high in the mountains.monastery = residence of a religious community
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Toward the end of the afternoon, they came upon a Coptic monastery. (source)monastery = the residence of a religious community
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As August reached down inside the box for the labels, I studied the return address: Holy Virgin Monastery Gift Shop, Post Office Box 45, St. Paul, Minnesota. (source)
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If you wanted to be merciful, you should have gone to a monastery. (source)monastery = residence of a religious community
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With Helena, Alexander was always his most outlandish, claiming as he collapsed on the grass that they had just met Tolstoy on the train; or that he had decided after careful consideration to join a monastery and take an eternal vow of silence. (source)
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Although his familiarity with art did not include woodworking or inlaid furniture, he had just recalled the famous tiled ceiling of the Spanish monastery outside of Madrid, where, three centuries after its construction, the ceiling tiles began to fall out, revealing sacred texts scrawled by monks on the plaster beneath. (source)monastery = residence of a religious community
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I can see now that I have been living a life of monastic simplicity compared to Tina.† (source)monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community
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Chinese explorers wrote stories of how there were 1,400 Buddhist monasteries along the banks of the River Swat, and the magical sound of temple bells would ring out across the valley. (source)monasteries = residences of religious communities
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What's the routine on joining a monastery? (source)monastery = residence of a religious community
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Here I am, he thought once, the world's only monastic druggie.† (source)monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community
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It was also one of the revered Buddhist religious sites, dating back to the second century and once home to hundreds of monks and many monasteries.† (source)monasteries = the residences of religious communities
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When he told the lady on the till upstairs, they said it was called Tuck and he was a ghost of a Franciscan friar who used to live in the monastery which was on the same site hundreds of years ago, which was why the shopping center was called Greyfriars Shopping Center, and they were used to him and not frightened at all.† (source)
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Her uncle seems almost a child, monastic in the modesty of his needs and wholly independent of any sort of temporal obligations.† (source)monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community
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The daughters put all kinds of things into their albums, little scraps of cloth from their dresses, little snippets of ribbon, pictures cut from magazines — the Ruins of Ancient Rome, the Picturesque Monasteries of the French Alps, Old London Bridge, Niagara Falls in summer and in winter, — which is a thing I would like to see as all say it is very impressive, and portraits of Lady This and Lord That from England.† (source)Monasteries = the residences of religious communities
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When I'm finished delivering the telegrams there's enough time to go to the ancient monastery graveyard where my mother's relations are buried, the Guilfoyles and the Sheehans, where my mother wants to be buried.† (source)
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