All 8 Uses of
abbey
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Nicholas Nickleby
- But they dwelt in an old wooden house—old even in those days—with overhanging gables and balconies of rudely-carved oak, which stood within a pleasant orchard, and was surrounded by a rough stone wall, whence a stout archer might have winged an arrow to St Mary's Abbey.†
Chpt 6
- The old abbey flourished then; and the five sisters, living on its fair domains, paid yearly dues to the black monks of St Benedict, to which fraternity it belonged.†
Chpt 6
- 'It was a bright and sunny morning in the pleasant time of summer, when one of those black monks emerged from the abbey portal, and bent his steps towards the house of the fair sisters.†
Chpt 6
- The same pious care which enriched the abbey of St Mary, and left us, orphans, to its holy guardianship, directed that no constraint should be imposed upon our inclinations, but that we should be free to live according to our choice.†
Chpt 6
- A goodly train of knights and ladies lodged one night within the abbey walls, and next day rode away, with two of the fair sisters among them.†
Chpt 6
- Once, a vassal was dispatched in haste to the abbey at dead of night, and when morning came, there were sounds of woe and wailing in the sisters' house; and after this, a mournful silence fell upon it, and knight or lady, horse or armour, was seen about it no more.†
Chpt 6
- 'There was a sullen darkness in the sky, and the sun had gone angrily down, tinting the dull clouds with the last traces of his wrath, when the same black monk walked slowly on, with folded arms, within a stone's-throw of the abbey.†
Chpt 6
- 'He is,' said Mr Snevellicci, 'but he isn't in Westminster Abbey, more's the shame.†
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Definition:
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(abbey) a building where monks or nuns live or lived