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Example sentences for "cowls"

Lexicographically close words:
cowhouse; cowl; cowld; cowled; cowlick; cowman; cowmen; coworkers; cowpeas; cowponies
  1. But how will it go with the ecclesiasts in particular--the churchmen with their singing and praying, their cowls and bald pates, and all their jugglery?

  2. Each monk may have two cowls and two robes to allow for change at night and for washing; anything more than this is superfluous and should be dispensed with as being a form of luxury.

  3. There shall also be cowls and robes of slightly better material for the use of those who are sent on journeys, which also shall be given back when they return.

  4. These cowls are arranged so as to help aspirate the air from the tubes and chimneys, and prevent a down draught.

  5. No return bends or cowls should be tolerated on top of the vent pipes.

  6. The cowls may be too low or too tight, preventing the escape of the smoke.

  7. To assist the action of winds over the tops of shafts and chimneys, various cowls have been devised.

  8. The blast of the German guns swept the funnels, boats, cowls and men away as a gale blows dead leaves before it.

  9. He broke in with his pestilent traditions, bound men down to observances concerning flesh-meat, cowls and Masses, and imposed on them his filthy, merdiferous law.

  10. Armorel took the cowls from the reading-lamps, and the room returned to light.

  11. A reading-lamp, with one of those silver cowls that throw the whole light upon the table, stood at either end, illuminating a small space in the middle.

  12. They were both tall men, and they stood with their cowls over their tonsures, in the conventual attitude, their hands tucked away into the ample sleeves of their brown habits.

  13. Are not their cowls the grave-clothes of a death in life?

  14. Monks again at work in the gardens, their cowls well tied up with hempen cords.

  15. When they wanted to eat or drink, they turned down the back-points or flaps of their cowls forwards below their chins, and that served 'em instead of gorgets or slabbering-bibs.

  16. They presently, leaving their outer habits and cowls upon the rails, began to throttle and make an end of those whom he had already crushed.

  17. The flap of their cowls hanged forward, and not backwards, like those of others.

  18. Patent ventilators are usually cowls to be placed upon the top of outlet {181} flues.

  19. The men on the barges were garbed in odd headgear, high cowls with staring circular eyepieces, and each carried a knapsack cylinder on his back.

  20. These rites performed, behind an iron grate Appeared breathing cowls and walking copes, 890 Whose writhed looks their births did antedate And change the ciphers girdled in with ropes.

  21. Offend one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome.

  22. They were attired in white habits, fitting tightly around their figures, and their cowls were sewn around their heads.

  23. Therefore a Christian life is not promoted by our fasting, prayers, cowls or anything that we may undertake.

  24. As stormy cowls their summits hid, In turret, tower and pyramid, Of stately and majestic mien, Was nature's architecture seen.

  25. I still see our long slender line in cloaks and cowls file out of the narrow corridors, and silently and reverently take up our march toward the Hall of Prayer on Mount Sinai.


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