Sample Sentences forabbess (auto-selected)
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In the archived papers of the Carmelites, I found nothing of hers, but I did find Saintly Amma's diaries in which the abbess recorded the passing days.† (source)
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Sharon began to think of leaving the convent when the abbess launched the construction of an elegant building to replace their rather makeshift quarters.† (source)
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At any rate that is what the Abbess Juliana Ber-ners tell us—perhaps incorrectly.† (source)
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The Abbess gazed hard at the grotesque old woman.† (source)
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The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them.† (source)
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The abbess assigned her a chamber, and had breakfast served.† (source)
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Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had a abbess on his knee.† (source)
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Abbesses, principals, head mistresses, dignitaries, in the republic of women— without being brilliant, any of them, they were that.† (source)
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Frau Adriatica tells anyone who will listen, and others as well, that toward the middle of the thirteenth century a Mylendonk was the abbess of a cloister in Bonn on the Rhine.† (source)
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The spot was the burial-place of a king and a queen, of abbots and abbesses, saints and bishops, knights and squires.† (source)
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Babbitt gloated, "If your mother caught us at this, we'd certainly get our come-uppance!" and Eunice became maternal, scrambled a terrifying number of eggs for them, kissed Babbitt on the ear, and in the voice of a brooding abbess marveled, "It beats the devil why feminists like me still go on nursing these men!"† (source)
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Mental suffering and trial supply, in some natures, the place of years, and I will be as plain with you as if I were a Lady Abbess.† (source)
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The mistress of the house, Miss Fontover, was an elderly lady in spectacles, dressed almost like an abbess; a dab at Ritual, as become one of her business, and a worshipper at the ceremonial church of St. Silas, in the suburb of Beersheba before-mentioned, which Jude also had begun to attend.† (source)
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Now leave we Queen Guenever in Almesbury, a nun in white clothes and black, and there she was Abbess and ruler as reason would; and turn we from her, and speak we of Sir Launcelot du Lake.† (source)
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Their aged and saintly abbess, Shessy Geevarughese, affectionately called Saintly Amma, had wasted no time in giving the two young nurse-nuns her blessing, and her surprising assignment: Africa.† (source)
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She resolved to write a letter to the Abbess.† (source)
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