How To Use Nunnery In A Sentence
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You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.
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An elderly, wrapped in a cow's hide, appears and, laughing, to the nunnery high above us.
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The nunnery flourished for more than a century, when, in the time of Penda, who was the reactionary of heathendom, it fell into decay.
The Lair of the White Worm
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I bimbled past the ruined nunnery.
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What do you want me to do, dress in black and live in a nunnery?
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But when the bishop came to visit a nunnery, that is precisely what happened.
Medieval People
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While Suor Marie Celeste's father defended the book he wrote, outlining his ideas on a heliocentric universe before the Inquisition, his daughter's letters tell him to wrap up warm and request money to help keep the nunnery running.
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It was formerly a nunnery, but in 1229 the nuns departed and the almswomen took their place.
Vanishing England
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Walking out of the nunnery was Sister Elizabeth, dressed in full habit, using a wooden cane to get down the sidewalk easier.
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Out of a sheer impulse for self-protection she flies to the nunnery, which is ready to give her life at the price of her womanhood and her self-sacrifice.
Celibates
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The local Tibetan said the authorities had since locked down the area and sent troops into the nunnery, which is known as Ganden Jangchup Choeling.
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Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery.
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Despite her idyllic life spent listening to lutes and arranging flowers for vases in the nunnery, she was very unhappy.
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Even the sisters in the Hippo nunnery were warned that a woman can unconsciously and unintentionally throw a man off balance merely by a flashing eye.
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The very sight of a convent-spire was sufficient to set their Moslem blood in a foment, and they sacked it with as fierce a zeal as though the sacking of a nunnery were a sure passport to Elysium.
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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To give an idea of the feeling which has always been common in Rome against the Jesuits, it is enough to quote the often told popular legend about the windy Piazza del Gesù, where their principal church stands, adjoining what was once their convent, or monastery, as people say nowadays, though Doctor Johnson admits no distinction between the words, and Dryden called a nunnery by the latter name.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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I just wanted to say - I know it's a partial solution, but I have found recently a lot of 'Horae Diurnae Breviarii Romani ' on AbeBooks - they are all coming from 'Pilgrim Books' in Canada maybe a nunnery got cleared out?
Old Mass and old breviary
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And I certainly couldn't ask her: she was as likely to tell me the truth as she was to enter a nunnery.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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During three centuries, the nunnery was a neighbour of the monastery, but, in 910, as the Huns were wasting the country, the nuns, with the help of the Emperor Louis III, constructed a fortified convent in the valley.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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It was as if Garbo had shorn her hair and entered a nunnery.
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`With my husband living in cloud-cuckoo-land and my daughter shut away in a nunnery, it's as if I have only Matthew left.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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Here we were invited into a Tibetan nunnery, and on the outskirts, watched the arrival of pilgrims who visit the Muktinath temple complex that has structures sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists.
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The princesses referred to their cloistered existence as ‘the nunnery.’
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There'll be a building at the nunnery named after Morty, oh, yes, oh, yes.
FATAL FLAW
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And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
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Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.
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Ounce, Dice, Trice" is a book for children that's full of words: magnificent, wonderful, strange, fabulous words like frangipani, dimity, gloaming and nunnery, and murdo, drumjargon and chumly.
Kids' Book Boasts The Best Words, Real Or Not
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Near adjoining to this abbey, on the south side thereof, was some time a farm belonging to the said nunnery, at which farm I myself, in my youth, have fetched many a halfpennyworth of milk.
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In one of these dreams, I was living in a nunnery in Tibet on a large white lake.
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Hamlet arrives, and reflects on suicide, action, and the fear of death before seeing Ophelia, whom he hysterically instructs to retreat to a nunnery: after he leaves, Ophelia laments that he has lost his reason.
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Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece.
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Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple.
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The two-story complex that surrounded the courtyard had been a nunnery for over 140 years.
CORMORANT
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`With my husband living in cloud-cuckoo-land and my daughter shut away in a nunnery, it's as if I have only Matthew left.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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Hermia has her own problems, though, since her father gives her the ultimatum of the nunnery, death, or a future with the lipless wonder Demetrius.
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That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church.
Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
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Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions.
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Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.
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The nucleus of the nunnery was a private house called
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London
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Amongst others, not long after Mr. Ferrar's death, a treatise was addressed to the Parliament, entitled, “The Arminian Nunnery, or a brief description and relation of the late erected monastical place called the Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire: humbly addressed to the wise consideration of the present parliament.
Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc
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So she takes herself to a nunnery, very conveniently as it turns out.
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And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
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Our training took place at The Novitiate Nazareth, a very nice retreat center that is a convent aka nunnery by some locals.
Way Down South
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Parliament, entitled, "The Arminian Nunnery, or a brief description and relation of the late erected monastical place called the Arminian
Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2
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In this instance the abbess was the head of all; and this accounts for Bede's calling the house a nunnery.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See
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Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
