The glaciered mountain, the Alpine peak, the dashing cataract of Switzerland and the Tyrol, are not finer in their way than the long flat moorlands of a Flemish landscape, with its clump of stunted willows Cloistering over some limpid brook, in which the oxen are standing for shelter from the noon-day heat-while, lower down, some rude water-wheel is mingling its sounds with the summer bees and the merry voices of the miller and his companions.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
There is something of majesty on "laying one's self down with a will," and there is something of strength in Cloistering the body for the spirit's health's sake, but to die when all within is warm and clamorous for life is terrible.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
These heights, cleft at intervals by green smiling valleys and deep ravines, are only the front of table-land stretching away like an inclined plane, and dotted with scattered houses and Cloistering villages.
"Scenes in Switzerland"
American Tract Society