What is "cloistral"

Usage examples of "cloistral".

The lane was a very cloistral one, with a ribbon of gravelly road, bordered on each side with a rich margin of turf and a scramble of blackberry bushes, green turf banks and dwarf oak-trees making a rich and plenteous shade.

He, Morange, was the son of a petty commercial clerk who had died on his stool after forty years of cloistral office-life.

This deep cool room, with shadowed walls and ceiling, Tranquil and cloistral, fragrant of my mind, This cool room says,--just such a room have you, It waits you always at the tops of stairways, Withdrawn, remote, familiar to your uses, Where you may cease pretence and be yourself.

She had not come to him out of cloistral purity, out of perfect radiancy.

If he was right, everything was explainable, the deliberately contrived solitude of the Hathalls,their cloistral life, the money that enabled them to dine out and Hathall to buy presents for his daughter.

Along this low rim its whitish opalescent waters mixed smoothly with the roots and over-hanging blades of the long grasses, with the cloistral arched frondage of the ferns, and with here and there a strayed spray of purple wild-pea.

He, Morange, was the son of a petty commercial clerk who had died on his stool after forty years of cloistral office-life.

She had not come to him out of cloistral purity, out of perfect radiancy.

If he was right, everything was explainable, the deliberately contrived solitude of the Hathalls,their cloistral life, the money that enabled them to dine out and Hathall to buy presents for his daughter.

Crimsoned above the water glimmered the monster-haunted rock itself, and mid-channel beyond, flat and black to the stream, stretched the Nuns' Isle in cloistral peace.

He's the kind of person that you might suppose gave the Catholics a hint for the cloistral life.