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a building where monks or nuns live or lived- Jane Austen, Northanger AbbeyRichard 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