How To Use nunnery In A Sentence
- 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
- And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- In one of these dreams, I was living in a nunnery in Tibet on a large white lake.
- 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.
- 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.
- Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple.
- The two-story complex that surrounded the courtyard had been a nunnery for over 140 years. CORMORANT
