Example Sentences

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In the daylight, with the pigeons on the sills and the morning sunlight printing the cross of the church steeple on the whitewashed wall, it was peaceful, cloisterlike, with landings that were crypts.

From The Street of Seven Stars by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The earth lay clothed in a dim, subdued, cloisterlike light that gave it an air of mystery.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)