Beside the kneeling penitent the abbot bent his knee, Sent his own praise and prayers to heaven forth on an embassy, Then raised him up, and saw that God had sent him answering grace; The shadow of the Enemy had left his heart and face.
Strong faith's the key of heaven; and once an abbot taught to me, If will is good, though faith is weak, shall faith accepted be.
As Abbot he devoted his life to increasing the splendour of his monastery.
And a certain Abbot of the same house bought the lands, &c.
Edwinesfelde, held of the Abbot of Stratford, at the yearly rent of 10d.
Abbot aforesaid, the Master of the House of the Blessed Thomas of Acre, and the Keeper of London Bridge, made their appearance to answer why the Bridges were not repaired, &c.
It has before been hinted that Abbot Anselm had written to the Pope, and Boniface the Eight piqued himself on his punctuality as a correspondent in all matters connected with church discipline.
The abbotand his friends could not comfort him or make him eat, and at last he told them that he should live only a little longer.
And the abbot and Bedivere were both glad to have him stay.
They took him the next day, all his friends and the abbot with them, and they journeyed slowly till they came to Joyous Gard.
So he led Bors to the abbot and Bors told him everything that had befallen him since he left the knights of the Round Table.
I dreamed,' theabbot said, 'that I saw Lancelot in the midst of a great company of angels.
In the morning Lancelot told the abbot of his dream, and the abbot said that it would be best for him to take his fellows with him and go to Almesbury, as he had been told to do.
The abbot did not know who the man was whom he had buried, till Bedivere told him, and Bedivere thought that he was King Arthur only because a company of ladies had brought him.
He did not awake when they came to him, as the abbot had done.
That night the abbot awoke some of the monks by laughing aloud in his sleep.
When he had been abbot of Glastonbury for a time he thought that he was leading too easy a life, so he gave up his post and went about preaching.
Our old friend St. Dunstan, who pinched the devil's nose, was the abbotthere once.
The work of Abbot Hugh included the exquisite carvings in stone, which represent about seventy different specimens of forms in nature.
More dramatic is Southey's story of the warning bell that the Abbot of Aberbrothock placed on the Inchcape Rock.
In the year 870 the Danes, on one of their forays, burnt church and monastery to the ground, and massacred the abbot and all his monks.
Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, changed the secular foundation of Harold, and introduced an abbot and monks of the Augustinian order.
Yet it sent the blood to his temples again, and he wondered, as he turned away, what the Abbot Berghersh would have answered to so frank an invitation.
Then we can still find something to teach thee, Alleyne," said the Abbot complaisantly.
Read upon the same day at the Abbey of Beaulieu in the presence of the most reverend Abbot Berghersh and of the assembled order.
The Abbot spoke in Latin now, as a language which was more fitted by its age and solemnity to convey the thoughts of two high dignitaries of the order.
Of all the throng there was scarce one who was not labor-stained and weary, for Abbot Berghersh was a hard man to himself and to others.
We three shall to the wars together, and the devil may fly away with the Abbot of Beaulieu!
Abbot Berghersh it had been decreed by the Pope that whoever should wear the habit of a monk of Beaulieu for as long as he might say the seven psalms of David should be assured of the kingdom of Heaven.
Alleyne Edricson bent his head while theAbbot poured out his heartfelt supplication that Heaven would watch over this young soul, now going forth into the darkness and danger of the world.
The brothers, who were English to a man, pricked up their ears at the sound of the homely and yet unfamiliar speech; but the Abbot flushed red with anger, and struck his hand upon the oaken arm of his chair.
The Abbot was still on his knees, when a gentle tapping at the door of his cell broke in upon his orisons.
Yet the Abbot Berghersh was a man of too firm a grain to allow one bold outbreak to imperil the settled order of his great household.
Abbot Berghersh was a good man, but how was he better than this kindly knight, who lived as simple a life, held as lofty and inflexible an ideal of duty, and did with all his fearless heart whatever came to his hand to do?
The Abbot turned his angry eyes away from them and bent them upon the accused, who met his searching gaze with a firm and composed face.
The Abbot had rolled ten silver crowns in a lettuce-leaf and hid them away in the bottom of his scrip, but that would be a sorry support for twelve long months.
At last the uproar died away in three last, measured throbs, and ere their echo had ceased the Abbot struck a small gong which summoned a lay-brother to his presence.
Upon this Bishop Hervey made his way to the English court, where he remained until he was sent to take charge of Ely monastery at the death of Abbot Richard.
In the Council of London, in 1102, Abbot Richard, with many others, was deposed.
There being no hope of recovering the fourth, Bishop Ethelwold and the abbot resolved to find a substitute in the body of S.
Upon discovery, the abbot withdrew from Ely in sorrow and disgrace, and soon fell sick and died.
Passing Ramsey Abbey, he sent word to the abbot that he proposed to stop there with his men for refreshment.
Two bays of the nave next to the tower were also the work of Abbot Richard.
In 1020 the Abbot of Ramsey obtained permission to move them to his abbey; and while he was doing this, the monks of Ely set out with the intention of intercepting the convoy and securing the body for their own church.
Notwithstanding many troubles and distractions (he was actually deposed at a council at Westminster in 1102, though restored by Papal bull in the next year), Abbot Richard made great advance in the building of the church.
The queen confessed before her death to having compassed the death of Abbot Brithnoth.
Marchesina, incensed at so severe a rebuke, so publicly inflicted, hurried back to the palace, threw herself at the feet of her imperial lover, and implored him to avenge on the abbot the insult he had put upon her.
One day, while the abbot was conducting divine service in the chapel, the imperial mistress passed by with her attendants, and made up her mind to enter.
They were invited to the house of Mr. Abbot Lawrence.
To these duties he often added that of secretary to the abbot and to the monastery generally.
It is said, however, that Gozbert, abbot of St Gall in the ninth century, who founded the library there by collecting what was then the large number of four hundred books, allotted them a special room over the scriptorium.
As early as the close of the eleventh century Marchwart, Abbot of Corvey in North Germany, made it a rule that every novice on making his profession should add a book to the library.
The Abbot of Inisfalen arose upon his feet; He heard a small bird singing, and O but it sung sweet!
It sung upon a sycamore, it sung upon a briar; To follow the song and hearken the Abbot would never tire.
Low kneel'd the blessed Abbot while the dawn was waxing bright; He pray'd a great prayer for Ireland, he pray'd with all his might.
The monks to him made answer, 'Two hundred years have gone o'er, Since ourAbbot Cormac went through the gate, and never was heard of more.
I wear the holy Augustine's dress, and Cormac is my name, The Abbot of this good Abbey by grace of God I am.
Low kneel'd the Abbot Cormac when the dawn was dim and gray, The prayers of his holy office he faithfully 'gan say.
One of Kieran's disciples was Carthag, who, although a saint, was a somewhat loose fish, and gave the abbot not a little trouble.
Docwin or Cyngar, brother of Solomon, was an abbot in Somersetshire.
Sithney almost certainly accompanied Kieran or Piran, and he succeeded him as abbot in his great monastery at Saighir.
Maen, but when required to give up the holy bones the abbot demurred.
Unhappily, Olaf could not speak Cornish, and the abbot was ignorant of the Norse tongue, so that all communication had to go on through the interpreter, and Olaf did not receive much religious instruction.
However, the justiciary would stand no nonsense, and threatened to use such severe measures that the abbot was forced to give way, and Prior Roger, of Bodmin, marched away with the recovered ivory box and its contents.
Kenneth, the crippled Abbot of Gower, was the father of S.
Here he represented the interests of his church till about 586, when he returned to Rome and was madeabbot of St Andrew's monastery.
Later, sacred poetry was more particularly cultivated in the monastery of the Studium at Constantinople by the abbot Theodorus and others.
The son of a plain citizen, Bunicus or Bonizo, he came to Rome at an early age for his education; an uncle of his being abbot of the convent of St Mary on the Aventine.
He soon became commendatory abbot of two once great religious establishments, then languishing under a sad decay of zeal and discipline consequent on the loss of a regular head.
On his behalf the old Abbot undertook a journey, to treat with the wild men of Galloway, whom Malcolm had three times defeated in battle, and now wished to bring to terms.
Aelred becameAbbot of Rivaux, and Waltheof Abbot of Melrose.
Fierce old Hugh was a religious man, and had great reverence and affection for one of the persons in all the world most unlike himself--Anselm, the Abbot of Bec.
He was related to the great Earls of Mercia, and his brother Brand was Abbot of Peterborough, so that he, and his wife Ediva, were persons of consideration in their own neighborhood.
In 1092, Hugh the Wolf was taken ill, and, believing he should never recover, sent to entreat the holyAbbot to come and give him comfort on his death-bed.
The strife respecting lay investiture was the ruin of the bearded Geoffrey; he claimed the investiture of the Abbot of Marmoutiers as a temporal baron, and thus caused himself to be excommunicated.
Abbot gives us the following account of the swarming of a species in New Jersey: "On the afternoon of Oct.
Besides these two rare volumes there are sixteen folio volumes of drawings by Abbot in the Library of the British Museum.
Near the close of the last century, John Abbot went from London and spent several years in Georgia, rearing the larger and more showy butterflies and moths, and painting them in the larva, chrysalis and adult, or imago stage.
For Gilbert de Hers was abbot in the cells that had once been the halls of his sires.
Yet he never revealed that this knight was the generous abbot who now supplied them with the means of innocent mirth, who ministered to all their wants, and whose life was so meek and blameless.
He stood with his back to the door, waiting, as Abbot strode toward him, ahead of the other councilmen, alone and unprotected.
It's not surprising that the old race died," Abbot said.
They had come together, Abbot and Drew and the others, and they faced him together, frowning.
Then Abbot pushed Walden aside and started forward, his face hard and determined and unchangeable.
For a long moment Abbot looked at him, and then his lips trembled and his whole body went slack in defeat.
Forgetting the repast, the two churchmen seized their weapons, called the city to arms, hastened to the ramparts, and the abbot slew their pilot with a well-aimed shaft.
Footnote 39: The surname Capet is said to have originated in the capet or hood of the abbot's mantle which Hugh wore as lay Abbot of St. Martin's, having laid aside the crown after his coronation.
The abbot of St. Maur evidently had some qualms concerning the expropriation of St. Eloy, and wished to restore it to the bishop.
As we pace round the ambulatory we are shown some remains of twelfth-century stained glass in the choir chapels (that in the Lady Chapel including the figure of Abbot Suger,) and a modern representation of the Oriflamme to the L.
He would have every child in his empire to know at least his paternoster, and every abbot on election was required to endow the monastery with some books.
Metz to the intercession of the saint, and in 1754, when the abbot complained to the king of the almost ruined condition of the abbey church, he found a sympathetic listener.
The famous Suger, abbotof St. Denis, was his wise and firm counsellor, who led the Church to make common cause with him and lend her diocesan militia.
After nearly a century of strained relations and minor troubles, Abbot Gerard in 1278 had walls and other buildings erected on the way to the meadow: the scholars met in force and demolished them.
In 1546 Pierre Lescot, Seigneur de Clagny, was appointed architect without salary, but given the office of almoner to the king, and made lay abbot of Clermont.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abbot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
