He scarce dared put foot outside the quiet cloistered quadrangle behind whose gates and walls he alone felt safe.
The stars came out, the sky glowed a darker violet, but the cloistered wall, the fantastic trellises in stone, shone whiter.
She bent forward till she saw one figure get down and, waving a hand to the party on the coach as it moved on, disappear into the gateway of the Cloistered House.
Three times David had gone to the Cloistered House; once Hylda and he had met in the road leading to the old mill, and once at Soolsby's hut.
But there came an afternoon when Hylda and David were a long hour together at the Cloistered House.
Three lights burned in Hamley: one in the Red Mansion, one in the Cloistered House, and one in Soolsby's hut upon the hill.
Almost as deep a quiet brooded in the Cloistered House as in the home where mourning enjoined movement in a minor key.
There was no change; yet, as he sat in his hut and looked down into the grounds of the Cloistered House, he kept saying to himself.
The grounds of the Cloistered House and the fruit-decked garden-wall of the Red Mansion were ever within his vision.
She was recalling, too, the afternoon of that day when she and David had parted in the drawing-room of the Cloistered House, and Eglington had asked her to sing.
California Building A Vista in the Colonnade The cloistered colonnades so intimately associated with Mission architecture have been successfully handled in the Court of the California Building.
The Court of Ages is shut in upon itself by the arcaded and vaulted ambulatory which extends continuously around its four sides, and by this cloistered effect, its individual impression is deepened and intensified.
He's the kind of person that you might suppose gave the Catholics a hint for the cloistral life; he's a cloistered nature--the nature that atones and suffers for.
He displayed the fears, the unwittingness, the open candour of a cloistered maiden.
It looked out upon the cloistered yard of the monastery.
The cloistered doorways beneath the buttresses, the triplet and rose-windows of the east front, and the north porch and back turret are all worthy of remark.
The Wellesley faculty, like the faculty of Harvard, is not a cloistered body, and contact with the minds of "a world of men" through books and the visitations of itinerant scholars is about as easy in the one case as in the other.
There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered be a cause not partisan.
The Canons which Gratian compiled were, however, no more the mere result of legal traditions than they were the outcome of cloistered theological speculation.
Such was the outcome of St. Bernard's cloistered Meditationes Piissimæ.
Not, perhaps, a fairy piece, but wonderful in its novelty to this newly emancipated cloistered nun, with whom a vivid sense of the beautiful had grown up by degrees in her mind, fed only in the pictures supplied by the imagination.
Think of a girl, brought up a cloistered nun, finding her liberty for a few short weeks, and then ordered back to her whitewashed cell.
The place was reserved for the use of ladies in retreat and was situated outside the constantly closed door which shut off the cloistered part of the convent from the small portion accessible to outsiders.
For it was enough, she said, to have borne a child to the greatest monarch on earth, and nothing more was left for her but to devote the rest of her life to cloistered sanctity.
Cloistered as a great artist must necessarily be at any time, he would have felt, perhaps, especially abandoned in far-off Mexico in the sixteenth century.
The variety of her literary employments was considerable, in comparison with the bulk of Mexican verse and prose, notwithstanding the old-fashioned manners of her cloistered muse.
These words sound as if coming from the cloistered votary of the middle ages, or even of the nineteenth century; the same is the spirit of the church in all ages.
Thus cloistered and fostered, she grew up strong, sweet, and happy, and with the glance of her clear eyes kept back yet a while many a shaft that would have been aimed at the church.
Of what use to the country at this period could have been two communities of cloistered nuns?
She had the placid contentment of a cloistered nun who knows nothing of the world outside her convent-walls, nor sighs to know it.
The girl was always a dreamer, and her cloistered life with the Huberts, along with constant reading of the lives of the saints, brought out all that was mystic in her nature.
Sent later to Saint-Eutrope, at the bottom of a marshy gorge, he wascloistered there with his sister Desiree.
Her daughter-in-law, Comtesse Sabine, was entirely under her dominion, and was forced by her to lead an almost cloistered existence.
She was married at seventeen, and ever since had led a cloistered existence with a pious husband and a dictatorial stepmother.
But in order to pay his new bishops he designed to appropriate the large revenues of the conventual houses, and he thus raised up against him all the cloistered clergy.
The gradual slackening of the bonds which bound the Spanish Church to the papacy, and the laxity of the ecclesiastical control which was a consequence, had brought about scandalous corruption amongst the higher and cloistered clergy.
Ecclesiastical establishments willingly resign themselves to all this; they are even inclined that way; the Jesuits were the first ones, under the old monarchy, who introducedcloistered and crowded boarding-houses.
Even Donne's "Immensity cloistered in the dear womb" is part of "the great conspiracy" of Marian Song.
