nunnery

Thus it came that, on the morning of the fourth day, he called Little John to him, and told him that he could not shake the fever from him, and that he would go to his cousin, the prioress of the nunnery near Kirklees, in Yorkshire, who was a skillful leech, and he would have her open a vein in his arm and take a little blood from him, for the bettering of his health.

He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed.

It was originally a nunnery, founded by Queen Bertha, but done away with by King Penda, the reactionary to Paganism after St.

"Let me burn Kirklees-Hall with fire, and all its nunnery."

He can't get into mischief in that little nunnery over there, and Mrs.

But I think that little Jane Scoupe at school in the nunnery at Carowe would dry her eyes and smile when she read it.

I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle--a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested.

"That there is," cried Benjamin; "now, in running down the coast of Spain and Portingall, you may see a nunnery stuck out on every headland, with more steeples and outriggers.

She had many privations and sufferings to undergo at first, but her worth and her gentle disposition won influential friends for her, and she built up a wealthy and flourishing nunnery. She became a great favorite with the heads of the church, and also the people, though she seldom appeared in public.

And nuns came, also; and more again, and yet more; and built over against the mon- astery on the yon side of the vale, and added building to building, until mighty was that nunnery. And these were friendly unto those, and they joined their loving labors together, and together they built a fair great foundling asylum midway of the valley between."

For this marriage to Casaubon is as good as going to a nunnery."

my money is at an end, and I could but get a dish of bran-porridge from the nunnery. Yet I trust that I may be able to reach Brockenhurst to-night, where I may have all that heart can desire; for oh!