CLOISTER in a Sentence

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But all was so arranged, that none of the inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLOISTER
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cloister
 n.  place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion; secluded, quiet place
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  What you beheld was the interior of a cloister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
2  At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
3  In this cloister play was mingled with heaven.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—GAYETIES
4  This stern cloister was not so well walled off, however, but that the life of the passions of the outside world, drama, and even romance, did not make their way in.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
5  But all was so arranged, that none of the inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
6  That cavern, which was called the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT
7  The cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
8  The Catholic cloister, properly speaking, is wholly filled with the black radiance of death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
9  Whoever says cloister, says marsh.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST
10  In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
11  In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
12  Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded him in this cloister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
13  Then we shall return to the cloister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
14  In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always questionable.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
15  Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in the exaggerated mists of the cloister.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN
Example Sentence:
1  The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.