Sample Sentences for
abbey
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  • The red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.  (source)
    abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
  • More than three thousand people are entombed or enshrined within Westminster Abbey.  (source)
    Abbey = church
  • Unlike the other rooms, which were at the mercy of noise and foul winds from the port, the library always enjoyed the tranquillity and fragrance of an abbey.  (source)
    abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
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  • Felicity's face falls as Pip spirits me away to the crumbling abbey, humming a merry tune.  (source)
    abbey = a building where monks or nuns live
  • Cathedrals, chapels, tabernacles, abbeys, monasteries, convents, parochial schools ....†  (source)
  • With the walls of the kitchen ended all the antiquity of the abbey; the fourth side of the quadrangle having, on account of its decaying state, been removed by the general's father, and the present erected in its place.  (source)
  • When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.†  (source)
  • Far below, on the ground, in the courtyard of the abbey, the cobblestones were shining.†  (source)
  • By the way, Mr Malone, those two houses you mentioned—the abbeys.†  (source)
  • Lea Abbey, you have been matched with Joseph Peterson.†  (source)
  • They're both abbeys.†  (source)
  • Several photos appeared on the screen, including one from London's Telegraph newspaper that showed a man running along a footpath outside Westminster Abbey, a gun in his hand.†  (source)
  • In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all.†  (source)
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