1.   The monks are not inhospitable, but recognizing and acknowledging so many visitors would make a spiritual and monastic life impossible.

2.   But at least there were no monks in there praying either.

3.   The monks are now advertising at the British Travel Trade Fayre.

4.   Although there were monks scattered out and about, before Benedict, he was the first to organize them.

5.   At a monastery nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas in remote Bhutan, the young Tibetan monks are feverish with anticipation.

6.   All the other monks were serious, but the Michigan monk was smiling.

7.   But the monks were no bakers, and their brightly colored garlands, ribbons and crests were not of sumptuous frosting but of sand.

8.   But the monks are nowhere to be seen.

9.   Despite her preoccupation with her own achievement, Ms. Tuckerman, also a psychology major, instantly recognized what the monks were all about.