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.

On a rainy afternoon I took a train to Monk Fryston and wandered through the village streets to the old parish church.

During our tour of Yorkshire, we stopped in Monk Bretton to see the old priory ruins.

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

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

The costume designer draped the monk's hoods over the mannequins to judge how they would fall on stage.

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

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

Monk Hesleden lies quietly between rolling fields, its history still visible in the stone cottages.