What is "munk"

Usage examples of "munk".

With the same solemnity as before, Munk Szondi clicked all three levels closed and returned the tiny gold watch to his vest pocket.

His call was for straight poker, three-card draw, and both Cairo Martyr and Munk Szondi nodded with approval when he announced it.

He and Munk Szondi raised theirs slowly and held them close to the chest, revealing them one at a time.

Other clandestine operators were at work in the confusion that had followed the war, in particular a Khasarian Jew from Budapest, Munk Szondi by name, who seemed to have immense resources of his own.

If Munk would come out of the closet and devote himself full-time to his real passion, music, she would support him for the rest of his life.

Brothers and nephews and grand-uncles took to practicing together, under the baton and guidance of the reigning Munk, and over the following decades the all-male Szondi Symphonic Philharmonic, not to mention the numerous Szondi baroque ensembles, became as famous in the musical circles of central Europe as the all-female House of Szondi had become in the world of banking.

But in keeping with the new matriarchal traditions of the family the first-born male in each generation, the new Munk, was never the son of a Munk but always the son of a Sarah, and therefore the eldest nephew of the last Munk, a confusing line of descent not easily understood by anyone but the Szondis.

Yet the Szondis never sensed this because young Munk lived so much within himself as a boy.

Sarah the First, surrounded by the enormous bookshelves with their thousands and thousands of love letters, young Munk sat gazing out the window not really seeing what lay beyond it.

Thus in the summer of 1908, Munk found himself seconded to the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Ottoman Empire, and Munk took the opportunity to completely revise it.

Buddhist, or because of the indelible memory of that stench on a Manchurian plain, Major Kikuchi never ate meat, which allowed him to be as mobile as Munk in Turkey.

November, Munk acquired the documents that brought an end to the first Balkan war, certain secret communications from Moscow that proved Russia would not go to war for the sake of the Balkan Slavs.

But he seemed to have known everyone in his time, having long been intimate with every manner of Levantine intrigue, and despite his notorious sexual excesses he was a wise and gentle friend, who adopted Munk as easily as if that had been his purpose in life.

But we were talking about you, young Munk, and I was going to be frank.