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  • Behind the screen the Abbess sat among her girls.†   (source)
  • The Abbess gazed hard at the grotesque old woman.†   (source)
  • The sun had gone down, but the Abbess led the way with a lantern down corridor after corridor.†   (source)
  • The Condesa showed the Abbess Dona Maria's last letter.†   (source)
  • Camila decided to go to Lima and look at the Abbess from a distance.†   (source)
  • At last the Abbess told her of Pepita and Esteban, and of Camila's visit.†   (source)
  • "The Condesa d'Abuirre wishes to see you," said a lay-sister at the door of the Abbess's office.†   (source)
  • Pepita was an orphan and had been brought up by that strange genius of Lima, the Abbess Madre Maria del Pilar.†   (source)
  • The Abbess would stop in a passageway and say suddenly: "I can't help thinking that something could be done for the deaf-and-dumb.†   (source)
  • But Dona Clara stood in the door as the Abbess talked to them, the lamp placed on the floor beside her.†   (source)
  • She accompanied the Abbess on her journeys, even though it was in the capacity of custodian of the eggs and vegetables.†   (source)
  • One day she heard by accident that the wonderful Abbess had lost two persons whom she loved in the same: accident.†   (source)
  • The Abbess hurried out into the street.†   (source)
  • But most clearly of all Pepita remembered the sudden interviews when the Abbess (not daring to wait until the girl was older) had discussed with her the duties of her office.†   (source)
  • The innkeeper failing to make any impression upon him and remembering that the boys were brought up at the Convent of Santa Maria Rosa de las Rosas, sent for the Abbess.†   (source)
  • Dona Clara suspected that the Abbess had not admired her mother and would not let the older woman speak until she herself had made a long passionate defense of Dona Maria.†   (source)
  • And then the Abbess had cast the child into the discipline of this long solitude, where Pepita struggled, refusing to let herself believe that she had been abandoned.†   (source)
  • The Abbess looked at her closely.†   (source)
  • She did not suspect that the Abbess, even there, was hovering above the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.†   (source)
  • "She is leaving me," said the Abbess, "for some work across the city and when I have spoken here I must leave you both, for the flour-broker will not wait for me any longer, and our argument will take a long time."†   (source)
  • And those who lay in their beds there felt that they were within a wall that the Abbess had built for them; within all was light and warmth, and without was the darkness they would not exchange even for a relief from pain and from dying.†   (source)
  • At last after Dona Clara had seen even the kitchens, the Abbess said: "Now will you excuse me, for I must go into the room of the very sick and say a few words for them to think about when they cannot sleep.†   (source)
  • Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had a abbess on his knee.†   (source)
  • The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them.†   (source)
  • The abbess assigned her a chamber, and had breakfast served.†   (source)
  • "Don't forget to treat me harshly in speaking of me to the abbess."†   (source)
  • "Why, this evening," said the abbess; "today even.†   (source)
  • "Then," said the abbess, looking at Milady with increasing interest, "I behold another poor victim?"†   (source)
  • This confirmed Milady in her opinion that the abbess was rather royalist than cardinalist.†   (source)
  • But the abbess contented herself with listening and smiling without replying a word.†   (source)
  • The abbess introduced them to each other.†   (source)
  • "You would, then, be tempted to believe," said the abbess, "that this young person is innocent?"†   (source)
  • The abbess only crossed herself, without approving or disapproving.†   (source)
  • "Permit me, madame, to express my surprise," said the abbess.†   (source)
  • The abbess suspects nothing, and believes that I am taken by order of the cardinal.†   (source)
  • The abbess listened more attentively, grew animated by degrees, and smiled.†   (source)
  • After breakfast, the abbess came to pay her a visit.†   (source)
  • He who just now presented himself to the abbess as a messenger from the cardinal.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Unwilling to enter till the children were dismissed he remained here till young voices could be heard in the open air, and girls in white pinafores over red and blue frocks appeared dancing along the paths which the abbess, prioress, subprioress, and fifty nuns had demurely paced three centuries earlier.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • She did not know whether the abbess was a royalist or a cardinalist; she therefore confined herself to a prudent middle course.†   (source)
  • The abbess looked at her for an instant with uneasiness, as if a fresh thought suggested itself to her mind.†   (source)
  • Milady wished to please the abbess.†   (source)
  • The good abbess had naturally consented to her request; and as a commencement, they were to sup together.†   (source)
  • She opened her eyes, and saw the abbess, accompanied by a young woman with light hair and delicate complexion, who fixed upon her a look full of benevolent curiosity.†   (source)
  • "Then, madame," said the abbess, smiling, "be reassured; the house in which you are shall not be a very hard prison, and we will do all in our power to make you cherish your captivity.†   (source)
  • But after all," resumed the abbess, "Monsieur Cardinal has perhaps plausible motives for acting thus; and though she has the look of an angel, we must not always judge people by the appearance."†   (source)
  • Show it to the abbess, and tell her that someone will come and fetch me, either today or tomorrow, and that I am to follow the person who presents himself in your name.†   (source)
  • She therefore took leave of the abbess, and went to bed, softly rocked by the ideas of vengeance which the name of Kitty had naturally brought to her thoughts.†   (source)
  • But the abbess, on her part, maintained a reserve still more prudent, contenting herself with making a profound inclination of the head every time the fair traveler pronounced the name of his Eminence.†   (source)
  • The abbess, who was the daughter of a noble house, took particular delight in stories of the court, which so seldom travel to the extremities of the kingdom, and which, above all, have so much difficulty in penetrating the walls of convents, at whose threshold the noise of the world dies away.†   (source)
  • "I am very ignorant of these matters," said the abbess, at length; "but however distant from the court we may be, however remote from the interests of the world we may be placed, we have very sad examples of what you have related.†   (source)
  • She made it her business, therefore, to amuse the good abbess with the worldly practices of the court of France, mixed with the eccentric pursuits of the king; she made for her the scandalous chronicle of the lords and ladies of the court, whom the abbess knew perfectly by name, touched lightly on the amours of the queen and the Duke of Buckingham, talking a great deal to induce her auditor to talk a little.†   (source)
  • The poor young woman was too pure to suppose that any female could be guilty of such perfidy; besides, the name of the Comtesse de Winter, which she had heard the abbess pronounce, was wholly unknown to her, and she was even ignorant that a woman had had so great and so fatal a share in the misfortune of her life.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • And then they led him unto the Abbess's chamber and unarmed him; and right so he was ware upon a bed lying two of his cousins, Sir Bors and Sir Lionel, and then he waked them; and when they saw him they made great joy.†   (source)
  • But the slap and the blessing stood him friend, says Mr Vincent, for to make up he taught him a trick worth two of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm that they would rather any time of the month whisper in his ear in the dark of a cowhouse or get a lick on the nape from his long holy tongue than lie with the finest strapping young ravisher in the four fields of all Ireland.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt DUKE, ABBESS, AEGEON, Courtezan, Merchant, ANGELO, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • [Enter the ABBESS, with ANTIPHOLUS SYRACUSAN and DROMIO SYRACUSAN.†   (source)
  • Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!†   (source)
  • Why, this is strange:—Go call the abbess hither: I think you are all mated, or stark mad.†   (source)
  • And then they led him unto the Abbess's chamber and unarmed him; and right so he was ware upon a bed lying two of his cousins, Sir Bors and Sir Lionel, and then he waked them; and when they saw him they made great joy.†   (source)
  • Claudia told him she meant to go to a monastery of which an aunt of hers was abbess, where she intended to pass her life with a better and everlasting spouse.†   (source)
  • And eke there was a clerk sometime at Rome, A cardinal, that highte Saint Jerome, That made a book against Jovinian, Which book was there; and eke Tertullian, Chrysippus, Trotula, and Heloise, That was an abbess not far from Paris; And eke the Parables* of Solomon, *Proverbs Ovide's Art, <29> and bourdes* many one; *jests And alle these were bound in one volume.†   (source)
  • ] [Enter the ABBESS.†   (source)
  • …assuredly, brother goatherd, if I found myself in a position to attempt any adventure, I would, this very instant, set out on your behalf, and would rescue Leandra from that convent (where no doubt she is kept against her will), in spite of the abbess and all who might try to prevent me, and would place her in your hands to deal with her according to your will and pleasure, observing, however, the laws of chivalry which lay down that no violence of any kind is to be offered to any…†   (source)
  • 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)
  • — Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate, And bid the lady abbess come to me: I will determine this before I stir.†   (source)
  • Come, go; I will fall prostrate at his feet, And never rise until my tears and prayers Have won his grace to come in person hither And take perforce my husband from the abbess.†   (source)
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  • Anon, I wot not by what strong escape, He broke from those that had the guard of him; And, with his mad attendant and himself, Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords, Met us again, and, madly bent on us, Chased us away; till, raising of more aid, We came again to bind them: then they fled Into this abbey, whither we pursued them: And here the abbess shuts the gates on us, And will not suffer us to fetch him out, Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.†   (source)
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  • [Exit ABBESS.†   (source)
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