How To Use monkish In A Sentence
- Moreover, he believed very firmly in Christianity as the way of saving human beings, and he addicted to a monkish life.
- But I never thought of him as anti-violent until Uma Thurman's father came on my "Con Games" radio show in Aspen to lead me monkishly down the path of virtue. Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
- The broiled rouget (with daikon radish and crunchy yellow lentils) had a similarly monkish, almost dried-out quality.
- In the front yard the pot-bellied officer was scowling and grunting, exclaiming angrily to the monkish gatekeeper. COUP D'ETAT
- My object, indeed, in the introduction of the Danish Vala especially, has been perhaps as much addressed to the reason as to the fancy, in showing what large, if dim, remains of the ancient "heathenesse" still kept their ground on the Saxon soil, contending with and contrasting the monkish superstitions, by which they were ultimately replaced. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
- Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever! The Caged Lion
- In Spain, there are few or no schools in the villages and small towns, that would have the effect of releasing the minds of the natives from monkish tyranny, which at present influences their principles, and biasses their choice, with regard to political, and indeed almost all other pursuits. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
- There were some who said it was a monkish trick, contrived for his own ends by one of the brethren from Beauvais, but, less than six months later, all Scotland believed that the skeleton masquer at Jedburgh had, indeed, come to warn an unfortunate land of its approaching doom. Stories of the Border Marches
- Harry turned from the crosses in front of which he stood, and looked at the monkish fellow who was emerging from the mist. EVERVILLE
- For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.
