1.   But he was dismayed, in the circumstances, to see Gabriel ride off the moor and up the street in the company of a young monk.

2.   At the table sat a young Cistercian monk, and at either elbow sat Lucier and Gabriel watching him copy one page of writing from another.

3.   A young monk entered to whom the prior whispered hoarse instructions.

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

5.   A young monk shaves another in Mandalay.

6.   Brother Lucas, an earnest but ambitious young monk, is called on to perform an exorcism.

7.   Four young monks hoisted a hefty foundation stone, and an abbot in a golden miter took up a portable microphone and intoned his benediction.

8.   Instead, the young monk replied that during his year of spiritual training, he had learned to open and close doors.

9.   One was a young monk named Radulf Glaber.

10.   One year, a young monk from France who had been a racer silently watched the event with the permission of Father Prior Diamond.