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Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished.
Source: wiktionary
Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink was benedictine.
Source: wiktionary
Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.
Source: wiktionary
Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include abbey-related, augustinian, augustinian hermit, austin friar, begging hermit.
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