sempects

Updated: May 13, 2025

Only the ancient sempects some near upon a hundred and fifty years old wandered where they would, or basked against a sunny wall, like autumn flies, with each a young monk to guide him, and listen to his tattle of old days. For, said the laws of Turketul the good, "Nothing disagreeable about the affairs of the monastery shall be mentioned in their presence.

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English