"They're not your big, strapping, 6-foot-5 machines that head the ball and run all day, " Monk said.

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"We never do things easy here at Swansea and it's never come in my time here or the time before, so we're looking for one of those days where it can all go right for us, " said Monk, who joined the club in 2004 and will make his 200th club appearance if he faces Doncaster on Sunday.

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"The fishing industry has slowed from a full-time job to just a couple months a year, " said Doug Monk, the captain of the boat from which Woodside dives.

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The auction house's George Gordon said that the way the monk's head was turned to one side created an impression of spontaneity as opposed to the more formal composition of Rubens' portraits.

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The most famous was Thomas Chatterton, an 18th-century writer who forged poems that he said were written by one Thomas Rowley, a medieval monk, and which continue to be much admired.

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Those sentenced Tuesday included four men and a minor convicted of the murder of a Buddhist monk and two men convicted of illegal association and public mischief, said Ye Aung Myint, advocate general of the Mandalay region that includes the town.

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Mr Board, whose real name is Barry, said his "most unusual" customer had been a Franciscan monk based at Hilfield Friary.

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