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

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.

At dawn the priest-monk led the chant, his voice blending the rites of both clergy and monastery.