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renounce
Rare a failure to follow suit in a card game


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Why I included them in my holiday reading package I'm not sure - two weeks on a Scottish island isn't exactly renouncing the world.
Chomei's Hojoki and Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
It's 50 years since each stood among other young women in a French convent chapel and, dressed as brides, felt their Sister Superior snip off a lock of their hair, a symbol of their renouncing the world.
Heaven's 'brides' are a couple of golden girls by Birmingham Mail (England)
She said her duty as a mother did not end with her renouncing the world, instead she took me in and I grew up very much like a temple girl.
My mother.... the Bhikkhuni by Dhammananda / Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities
 
 
 
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