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a building where monks or nuns live or lived

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

SCENE V. A public place near Westminster Abbey.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
A memorial will be held tomorrow at the Rosewood Abbey and will be open to the public.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
Speaking of Rachel reminds me—did you hear anything about the Abbey Bank lately, Anne?
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
Even the location of the hospital was intimidating, close as it was to the great Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
Let him pick out the most historic house, castle or abbey that England contains.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Go on, good Eglamour, Out at the postern by the abbey wall.
William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Let us go backward a few hours, and place ourselves in Westminster Abbey, at four o'clock in the morning of this memorable Coronation Day.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey, the seat of English Protestantism.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
And inside the front cover there was a big map of London with places on it like Abbey Wood and Poplar and Acton and Stanmore.
Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey.
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
He died in 1882 and was buried with great pomp and ceremony in Westminster Abbey as one of England's distinguished sons.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
It may be worth thinking of by Fawners of all denominations—in Westminster Abbey and Saint Paul's Cathedral put together, on any Sunday in the year.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Among the crowds i' the Abbey, where a finger Could not be wedg'd in more.
William Shakespeare -- Henry VIII
[Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey".
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
For a moment, Langdon was back in Westminster Abbey, standing at Newton's pyramidical tomb, where he had experienced a similar epiphany.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don't expect me to describe it, that's impossible, so I'll only say it was sublime!
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Found the chandelier in a little abbey outside Paris.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
The mill still worked on, food being a perennial necessity; the abbey had perished, creeds being transient.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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