Dormitory Sentence Examples

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  • On the eastern side we find the remains of the dormitory, raised on a vaulted substructure and communicating with the south transept.

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  • A passage under the dormitory leads eastwards to the smaller or infirmary cloister, appropriated to the sick and infirm monks.

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  • Beneath the dormitory, looking out into the green court or herbarium, lies the "pisalis" or "calefactory," the common room of the monks.

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  • The refectory is on the west side and on the south the dormitory of the 13th century.

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  • A second smaller dormitory runs from east to west for the accommodation of the conventual officers, who were bound to sleep in the dormitory.

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  • Above this whole range of building runs the monks' dormitory, opening by stairs into the south transept of the church.

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  • In the College dormitory a Latin play is annually presented, in accordance with ancient custom.

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  • This has been mostly rebuilt, and but little now remains except ruins of some of the towers, a great part of the monks' dormitory and frater, and the splendid cloister, completed about 1200.

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  • In closest connexion with the church is the group of buildings appropriated to the monastic life and its daily requirements - the refectory for eating, the dormitory for sleeping, the common room for social intercourse, the chapter-house for religious and disciplinary conference.

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  • The monks' dormitory was in its usual position above the chapter-house, to the south of the transept.

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  • They were also worried about the area becoming a dormitory.

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  • The place usually assigned to it is occupied by the vaulted substructure of the dormitory (Z).

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  • He found it hard sharing a dormitory with the boys!

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  • There was a mini-supermarket open 24 hours, located across the street from my dormitory, and I was there at least six of those 24 hours.

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  • The western side of the cloister is, as usual, occupied by vaulted cellars, supporting on the upper story the dormitory of the lay brothers (8).

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  • The dormitory is divided into two rooms each containing two triple metal bunks.

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  • It is almost unheard-of for the monks ' dormitory to lead into the nave.

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  • This includes two cloisters, the great cloister surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks, - the church to the south, the refectory or frater-house here as always on the side opposite to the church, and farthest removed from it, that no sound or smell of eating might penetrate its sacred precincts, to the east the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer to the west.

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  • The dormitory, as a rule, was placed on the east side of the cloister, running over the calefactory and chapter-house, and joined the south transept, where a flight of steps admitted the brethren into the church for nocturnal services.

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  • At L was the staircase to the dormitory.

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  • A large portion remains of the adjoining buildings, including chapter-house, sacristy, cloisters and dormitory.

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  • The south transept has a similar blocked door that would have allowed access to the monks ' dormitory.

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  • A serious fire in 1985 destroyed the chief surviving feature, a large C15 roof of the former canon's dormitory.

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  • Maria cautiously leads Liz and Simon into what appears to be a girls ' dormitory.

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  • The present space will hold no more beds, but to build an additional dormitory is the earnest desire and intention of Dr. Gilbert.

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  • On the dog leg on the main corridor there is a short corridor leading to the female dormitory now stripped of its original fittings.

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  • The Lower Grammar boys share rooms within a larger dormitory.

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  • An imaginative strategy We must also avoid creating places that are simply dormitory suburbs for London.

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  • Opening out of the dormitory was always the necessarium, planned with the greatest regard to health and cleanliness, a water-course invariably running from end to end.

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  • In their dormitory we found chocolate, sausages, tins of sardines, and very comfortable beds, whilst the other prisoners were starving.

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  • As a result, individuals living in a household or college dormitory with someone who has mononucleosis have a very small risk of being infected unless they have direct contact with the person's saliva.

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  • In 2009, the government allocated funding to preserve the Baggage and Dormitory Building.

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  • If you're used to eating in a college dormitory every night, it can be difficult to take responsibility for preparing your own meals.

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  • In addition, avoid public locker rooms, dormitory areas and wet surroundings when you're barefoot.

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  • The next door on the right is a small 6 bed dormitory (with more wall lights ).

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  • Farther to the west, projecting beyond the line of the west front of the church, were vast vaulted apartments (SS), serving as cellars and storehouses, above which was the dormitory of the conversi.

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  • The Merveille (1203-1264) consists of two continuous buildings of three storeys, that on the east containing, one above the other, the hospitium (aumonerie), refectory and dormitory, that on the west the cellar, knights' hall (salle des chevaliers) and cloister.

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  • Other works include the Sheridan monument in Washington; " Mares of Diomedes " and " Ruskin " in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; statue of Lincoln, Newark, N.J.; statue of Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn; the Wyatt Memorial, Raleigh, N.C.; " The Flyer " at the university of Virginia; gargoyles for a Princeton dormitory; " Wonderment of Motherhood " and " Conception."

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  • At its north-east corner access was given from the dormitory to the necessarium, a portentous edifice in the form of a Norman hall, 145 ft.

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  • The cloisters are to the south, with the chapter-house, &c., to the east, with the dormitory over.

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  • The long gabled building on the east side of the cloister contained on the ground floor the chapter-house and calefactory, with the monks' dormitory above (M), communicating with the south transept of the church.

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  • For a considerable portion of its inhabitants Brooklyn is only a place of residence, their business interests being in the borough of Manhattan; hence Brooklyn has been called the "city of homes" and the "dormitory of New York."

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  • The chapel or chamber of the Pyx is part of the undercroft of the original dormitory, and is early Norman work of the Confessor's time.

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  • Within it were found a temple of Amphiaraus, a large altar, and a long colonnade, which may have been the dormitory where the patients slept in hope of obtaining counsel in dreams. There were also baths and a small theatre, and numerous inscriptions relating to the arrangement and observances of the sanctuary and oracle.

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  • This inner gate conducted into the base court (T), round which were placed the barns, stables, cow-sheds, &c. On the eastern side stood the dormitory of the lay brothers, fratres conversi (G), detached from the cloister, with cellars and storehouses below.

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  • Parallel with the western walk is an immense vaulted substructure (U), incorrectly styled the cloisters, serving as cellars and store-rooms, and supporting the dormitory of the conversi above.

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  • The church refectory, dormitory and other buildings belonging to the professional life of the brethren surround the great cloister.

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  • The plan given by Viollet-le-Duc of the Priory of St Jean des Bons Hommes, a Cluniac cell, situated between the town of Avallon and the village of Savigny, shows that these diminutive establishments comprised every essential feature of a monastery, - chapel, cloister, chapter-room, refectory, dormitory, all grouped according to the recognized arrangement.

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  • Marco (now converted into a national museum), a series of frescoes, beginning towards 1443; in the first cloister is the Crucifixion with St Dominic kneeling; and the same treatment recurs on a wall near the dormitory; in the chapterhouse is a third Crucifixion, with the Virgin swooning, a composition of twenty life-sized figures - the red background, which has a strange and harsh effect, is the misdoing of some restorer; an "Annunciation," the figures of about three-fourths of life-size, in a dormitory; in the adjoining passage, the "Virgin enthroned," with four saints; on the wall of a cell, the "Coronation of the Virgin," with Saints Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Benedict, Dominic, Francis and Peter Martyr; two Dominicans welcoming Jesus, habited as a pilgrim; an "Adoration of the Magi"; the "Marys at the Sepulchre."

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