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    cloistered


    1. The education of the children of the elite kept them isolated, cloistered from the true reality


    2. To a farmer perhaps, where she would have the room to run around and not be cloistered with other creatures that made her feel hemmed in


    3. Every person will have the dignity of living very well in society, without needing to be cloistered at its houses with fear of the insecurity, without the drama of the unemployment or lack of income


    4. In lieu of imprisonment, he was allowed to live out his life under house arrest in Arcetri where his two daughters were cloistered


    5. But then, again, they were so cloistered


    6. The Genie was cloistered in his bottle and Bartolomeo was nibbling a cookie on one of the red wine chairs that adorned the stay, foreign to the surrounding noise, focusing all of its canine attention on the only deserving object of its interest at that moment: the cookie and the crumbs that were jumping like lost fleas around


    7. The Borrascosa cellar was a cemetery of useless things and memories cloistered in pasteboard coffins wrapped up in naphthalene clouds under the dust layers which insisted on hiding the true color of the forms, granting to all of them a uniform grayish coloration


    8. Thankfully, he cloistered himself from the peer and


    9. And cloistered in these living walls of jet


    10. After searching for it uselessly in the taste of earth, in, the perfumed letters from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed of her husband, she had found peace in that house where memories materialized through the strength of implacable evocation and walked like human beings through the cloistered rooms, Leaning back in her wicker rocking chair, looking at Colonel Aureliano Buendía as if he were the one who looked like a ghost out of the past, Rebeca was not even upset by the news that the lands usurped by José Arcadio would be returned to their rightful owners

    11. Fernanda’s cloistered passion built in impenetrable dike against Úrsula’s torrential hundred years


    12. The Visitation order was now cloistered


    13. The drapes were often closed and a visitor would speak with the cloistered nun through the black cloth


    14. He would treat the occasional person who came by, but his life was primarily cloistered


    15. Jane de Chantal, and Brother Leo to enter a more cloistered order, the Cistercians of Strict Observance, commonly called the Trappists


    16. Nuns are more cloistered, spend more time in silence, and their day is lived around the rhythm of the Liturgy of the Hours, the Divine Office, which punctuates their days with prayer


    17. They traveled over the smaller mountain that sat at the base of the peaks of Na Serin, where the cloistered town of Sagewend nestled in the protective shadow of the larger mountain


    18. But you no longer need toil under such a burden, piteous Galinda, as NorthMoon of the Cloistered Coven will call forth his White Magic to strip away the darkness that bedevils you!”


    19. That didn't mean they wouldn't take to wandering if the opportunity arose but, in principle, they were meant to lead a cloistered life


    20. You will, very properly, remembering my cloistered life, inquire what I know about it; but it seems to me, only please don't laugh, that I have seen and known quite a good deal

    21. “ These used to be the cloistered walls when the monetary was first built and where we stand was the central courtyard open to fresh air and sunshine


    22. Beautiful or dull they were different from Kökensee; and when the travelled Ingram put his hopes in Milan he did not realise how great on Ingeborg after her strictly cloistered Kökensee existence was the effect of the merely different


    23. The news had come one night while Michael was cloistered in his garage apartment in Seattle’s old Belltown neighborhood


    24. They wanted to know how the real world worked, not the version a teacher that had just graduated from college was selling, and not the cloistered textbook tale that is taught in most mainstream high schools


    25. That, thought Scarlett, was the height of absurdity, for there was little, now, which even the most cloistered women had not seen and known in the last five years


    26. He was recommending a silent, ten-day slog, where I would be cloistered at a Buddhist retreat center with dozens of other meditators


    27. Was this why our parents had forced us to memorize every species of every creature on earth? Just in case our cloistered apartment building was one day randomly attacked by exotic wildlife?


    28. Thus at The Infant Jesus they say, "At this hour and at every hour may the love of Jesus kindle my heart!" The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office


    29. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one


    30. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some respects, a deferential gravity

    31. Oh! at such moments, what mournful glances did he cast towards that cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that Eden forever closed against him, whence he had voluntarily and madly emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What have I done?"


    32. His skin was as white and shiny as that of a cloistered nun


    33. From certain cloistered old authors I have gathered that this same sea-unicorn's horn was in ancient days regarded as the great antidote against poison, and as such, preparations of it brought immense prices


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    Synonyms for "cloistered"

    cloistered reclusive secluded sequestered cloistral conventual monastic monastical remote private isolated retired removed solitary

    "cloistered" definitions

    of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows


    providing privacy or seclusion