If the salt of the earth––but not to the nunnery nor to the monkery, we go.
If ever monk had got to heaven by monkery, I had been that monk.
But who can reckon on the honesty of a woman where bribery and monkery reign!
Fructuosus, who died about 665, displayed when a mere child a genius for monkery.
"And still you haven't answered my question about your monkery," Guy persisted.
Down this slope it was hurled headlong by the establishment of monkery.
Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves?
One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.
As Mr Maitland says of the plan—it would be after all but "a playing at monkery."
Thus in the early days the sect defied their Prophet's condemnation of monkery by building an abode for members of the order.
