The Black Monk walked slowly through the monastery garden at dawn, his cassock brushing the dew.

The sailors told tales of sea monks who guided ships through the fog.

The old sailor insisted he had once seen a sea monk resting on the rocks at dawn.

The monk parakeet built an enormous communal nest on the power line, surprising local birdwatchers.

The zoologist's field notes mentioned a monk bat roosting under the palm fronds.

The forager pointed out the patch of monk's rhubarb growing by the stream and warned that it was not a true rhubarb but a type of dock.

She sat on the worn monk chair by the window and read for hours.

The antique monk chairs in the monastery's dining hall are carved from a single piece of oak.

In the monastery's communal hall, several worn monk's chairs lined the walls, each bearing centuries-old carvings.

She restored an antique monk's chair she found at the flea market.