What is "cloistered"

Usage examples of "cloistered".

The small room under the eaves held a cloistered ambience, offering warm sanctuary from the storm outside, hermitage, as well, from the fashionable beau monde and all the obstacles and impediments that world could impose.

It was a powerful organ, and there was no doubt that it would take the cloistered stillness of the Cosmopolis dining-room and stand it on one ear.

I strongly suspected that Margot had cloistered herself within the spun-sugar confines of her home, so I retreated to the Embarcadero Center and loitered on the level where the pedestrian walkway linked it to the condominium complex.

And with eighty-two delicious females cloistered in the school building and living there, it was apparent to him that he would have a virtually unlimited source of flagellatory pleasures.

This quiet, cloistered but not inactive nor unexciting life in these most ancient and fructuous groves of academe is what I want.

In the room that he shared with Hakeem, Tancred opened the window that looked directly onto the cloistered quarter of wealthy Venetian merchants.

Also if there is any cloistered person who has begun his week of being hebdomadary, and falls into such sickness that he cannot celebrate the same, the cantor is to say or celebrate three masses.

Full of wonder, the reem listened to the wind, the lyric babbling of the water, and the plangent cries of tiny, cloistered birds.

She received me in her boudoir, and on my way thither I could not but observe the perfect quiet and cloistered seclusion that prevaded the whole house,--the house itself seeming only an adjunct of the still and sunny garden, of which one caught a glimpse through the long open hall--windows beyond.

I will be sharing with you what I experienced and have come to understand of Christian contemplative spirituality during the five and half years I lived as a monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a cloistered Trappist monastery in Kentucky.

In respect to industrial matters, the hampered artizans, watched and cloistered in their country, cease to perfect their arts and allow foreign competitors to surpass them in processes and in furnishing supplies to the world.

In some of the other orders, flagellation ad been stopped, but in the cloistered Cistercian convents monasteries it survived.

Up to now, the cloistered little Scotsman had known a horizon delimited by Kincardineshire and Bristol.

Already there were rumors that the ex-Emperor and his advisers had caused the disturbance to stir up further enmity between the rival monasteries, and even as the earliest arrivals set foot in Kyoto, new reports were heard that the Cloistered Emperor had sent his deputies to confer with the Enryakuji monks, who were rallying, fully armed, at West Sakamoto.

A bunch of cloistered ivory-tower astrophysicists predicted expansion of the universe would cease, but not for billions of years yet.