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monks

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Monks is the surname of: Clifford Monks (1912-1974), English cricketer Constance Monks (1911-1989), British politician and teacher George Monks (cricketer) (born 1929), English former cricketer George Howard Monks (1853-1933), American board game designer ...

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Seven hundred monks lived here and another two hundred servants, many of them never leaving the place except to go on short visits, usually to market in the village of St.

He calmed quickly, though, seeing that all of his classmates were similarly entranced and that the Father Abbot and the other ranking monks seemed not to care.

Was Avelyn, perhaps, a higher standard, a shadowy mirror, held up before all the monks of St.

If Avelyn did not take ill, the competition to go onto the island of Pimaninicuit had been narrowed to three monks fighting for one slot.

Avelyn knew what he could do with that jewel, and when he stopped to consider the implications for the other monks if he used the ruby first, the puzzle seemed not so difficult.

Avelyn and Thagraine had been formally named as the Preparers, the two monks who would leave the chartered ship and go onto the island of Pimaninicuit to collect and prepare the stones, while Quintall and Pellimar would remain aboard, going onto the island only should one of the chosen pair falter.

The only secret remained the subsequent destination of that ship, for only the masters and the four chosen monks knew the magical name Pimaninicuit.

He hardly considered the dangers, though he knew from his studies that on several occasions, the monks who had set out for Pimaninicuit had never returned, taken by storms or powries or by the great serpents of the Mirianic Ocean.

Even on successful voyages to Pimaninicuit, more often than not, one or more of the four monks did not return, for disease was a very real fact of life aboard ship.

The stern man steeled his gaze upon each of the four monks, letting them know right up front that the ship was his domain.

More than eight hundred monks, every member of the Order, including four score who were not living at the abbey any longer but were serving as missionaries all along All Saints Bay, lined the docks, lifting their voices in common song.

Adjonas gave a curt nod, and Quintall paced by him, the other three monks in tow.

Old Bunkus Smealy seemed to take extra pleasure in ordering the monks on any particularly dangerous task.

Smealy glanced at each of the four monks, spat something unintelligible, then stormed away, taking out his rage on the nearest crewmen.

The bond was immediate and secure, the four monks putting aside their personal squabbles in light of potentially more dangerous enemies.