But the convent then, as since, was a living grave to all who took its vows, and was hated by brilliant women who were not religious.

As we have elsewhere said, the convents in those days were schools no less than asylums and hospitals, and were especially valued for female education.

The convent is a large, clean, airy establishment.

Their convents were hotels as well as bee-hives; any stranger could remain two nights at a convent without compensation and without being questioned.

The convent is an old-time stronghold, but, dominated on three sides by hills which look down into its quadrangle, it would be untenable to rifle fire.

The Convent of St Michael, situated on an immense height to the right of the road between Suza and Rivoli, is a very striking object.

The convent was a hollow square of solidly built buildings, the inner and outer walls alike being of a masonry which yielded only to artillery, and from the windows and doors of these a hail of bullets at close quarters met the entering crowd of regulars and swarms of bloodthirsty Cretan irregulars, all furious at the resistance and wild with fanaticism.

MARMADUKE That Convent was Stone-Arthur Castle.

My cousin at last told me plainly that while she would be true to her word, and not marry anyone before me, she would not marry me, and that on her father's death a convent should be her refuge.

The convent where he spent his last years was the abbey of Dalon, near Hautefort.

The unhappy result of poor young Caterina's education proved to Duke Cosimo that the convent was no place for her, and, although he placed Alessandro's illegitimate little daughters, Giulia and Porczia, with the good nuns, he resolved that no such experience should be that of his own dear children.

A convent is the securest prison in the world; and whenever any one comes into it, who by any particular endowment promises to be an ornament to the order, cannot, without great difficulty, disentangle themselves from the snares laid for them.

The convent necessarily and logically, according to the theology of the Middle Ages, was a retreat from the world,a cell of expiation; and yet it was the only place where a woman could be educated.

It is impossible to doubt that this Convent has been 'a blessing to the colony.'

They were generally industrious; every convent was a beehive, in which various kinds of manufactures were produced.

The religious duties of monks were still dreary, monotonous, and gloomy,long and protracted singing in the choir, incessant vigils, an unnatural silence at the table, solitary walks in the cloister, the absence of social pleasures, confinement to the precincts of their convents; but their convents became bee-hives of industry, and their lands were highly cultivated.