cloistral , also: claustral

Smoothly, the boat made its way among the cloistral columns.

From this time date the ground plan, the bell tower and the original cloistral buildings.

Just the least gesture to the meditative cloistral calm of her puss.

We have now only four boys of tender age among us, two of them not committed to the cloistral life, but here to be educated.

With both the secular and the cloistral law directing, the search did not take long, and was fruitless.

Their rocklight, and the vibrant stillness of the lake, gave the whole place a cloistral air, despite its size.

'Back to the daily round and cloistral calm?'

Nevertheless, amorphous as it might be, there was in it a reminiscence of the wondrous, cloistral origin of education.

'Yeah, I know 'contemptible Essene, cloistral nonentity', that's what you said to me.'

'Contemptible Essene, cloistral nonentity'.

Beyond the relatively modest needs of her car and her wardrobe and this almost cloistral flat of hers, money seemed to mean very little to her.

My own room, if it interests you to know, is somewhat cloistral and narrow, but it looks straight over the lawns to the hill-rise and the woods beyond.

I'm not. . . . Oh, I suppose I do get startled- faunish, leading such a cloistral life here."

All these things had taken from the charm of Whitechapel, and the cloistral peace of Battersea Park Road was grateful and comforting.

The wall was breached in several places, a gate of iron grillework dangling crazily from its hinges, and smoke curled lazily upward from the cloistral buildings beyond.

Leopold Ackermann (17 November 1771, Vienna - 9 September 1831), known by his cloistral name as Petrus Fourerius, was a professor of exegesis.

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.

Madam, you know my father, Retiring into cloistral solitude To yield the remnant of his years to heaven, Will shift the yoke and weight of all the world From off his neck to mine.

They had had to amend their ways, however, since Abbot Radulfus had taken over the rudder of this cloistral vessel, for he was a man who brooked no slipshod dealings, and would have all his crew as meticulous as himself.

In excruciating detail, a woman washes herself at a grungy sink; another, more scantily clad, sits in a chair scanning a magazine amid the kitschy trappings of her cubicle (itself suggesting a womb in its cloistral feeling and fleshy colors).

'And come to think of it, this isn't so dissimilar to the kind of influence your genetic father might wish to have on you, were it not for the fact that he is such a contemptible Essene, a cloistral nonentity capable of only the meanest interaction with his fellow men.

Perhaps the sounds that measured out the cloistral day were able to reach some quiet core of habit even within the sufferer's disrupted being, for at the note of the bell for Prime he fell suddenly quiet, and his eyelids fluttered and strove to open, but closed again wincingly against even this subdued light.