313 examples of abbess in sentences

We read that divers of the nuns, "being warped with a malicious desire of revenge, took advantage of the night and strangled the lady abbess, who was the object of their fury and passionate animosities, in her bed; and after, to conceal so execrable an assassination, threw her body into a pit, which afterwards contracted the traditional appellation of Nun-pit."

And now Adriana came up to him, and claimed him as her lunatic husband, who had escaped from his keepers; and the men she brought with her were going to lay violent hands on Antipholis and Dromio; but they ran into the convent, and Antipholis begged the abbess to give him shelter in her house.

And now came out the lady abbess herself to enquire into the cause of this disturbance.

"Perhaps," said the abbess, "he has fixed his affections on some other lady than you his wife; and that has driven him to this state."

Now it was not his love for another, but the teazing jealousy of his wife's temper, that often obliged Antipholis to leave his home; and (the abbess suspecting this from the vehemence of Adriana's manner) to learn the truth, she said, "You should have reprehended him for this.

"Aye," said the abbess, "but perhaps not enough."

Adriana, willing to convince the abbess that she had said enough to Antipholis on this subject, replied, "It was the constant subject of our conversation: in bed I would not let him sleep for speaking of it.

" The lady abbess, having drawn this full confession from the jealous Adriana, now said, "And therefore comes it that your husband is mad.

But the abbess had made her so plainly perceive her fault, that she could only answer, "She has betrayed me to my own reproof.

" Adriana, though ashamed of her own conduct, still insisted on having her husband delivered up to her; but the abbess would suffer no person to enter her house, nor would she deliver up this unhappy man to the care of the jealous wife, determining herself to use gentle means for his recovery, and she retired into her house again, and ordered her gates to be shut against them.

The place of his execution was near this convent, and here he arrived just as the abbess retired into the convent; the duke attending in person, that if any offered to pay the money, he might be present to pardon him.

And they say the head lady of themprioress, or abbess, as they called herwithstood him, and cursed him, in the name of the Lord, for a hypocrite who robbed harmless women under the cloak of punishing them for sins they'd never committed (for they say, sir, he went up to court, and slandered the nuns there for drunkards and worse).

The ABBESS IRMINGARD sitting with ELSIE in the moonlight.

But is it not plain that heiress's, abbess's, peeress's, countess's, and many other words of the same form, are as good English as witness's?

Permission to see the ruins must be obtained from the abbess or chaplain, and visitors are expected to give a small contribution towards the restoration fund.

MONASTERIES, austerities treated of in Rambler and Idler, ii. 435; bodily labour wanted, ii. 390; Carthusian, unreasonableness of becoming a, ii. 435; their silence absurd, ib.; Johnson curious to see them, i. 365; saying to a Lady Abbess, ii.

The abbess of Castro. R111432.

The Abbey at Clynch St. Mary has a "coise" put on it by the last Abbess, and every direct male heir expires punctually on his twenty-first birthday.

The actual agency is a poisoned ring concealed in the frame of a portrait of the malevolent Abbess and is in the custody of the Otway family, who enjoy a prescriptive if nebulous right to be stewards of the property.

Just how or why the Otwaysnoble fellows, we are given to understandcarry out the deceased Abbess's nefarious wishes with such precision and despatch is not explained.

" In the "Comedy of Errors," the Abbess says to Adriana: "The venom clamors of a jealous woman Poison more deadly than a mud dog's tooth.

In short, I had obtained leave from the Bishop of Chartres to enter into St. Cyr; and, as Madame du Deffand never leaves anything undone that can give me satisfaction, she had written to the abbess to desire I might see everything that could be seen there.

The Bishop's order was to admit me, Monsieur de Grave, et les dames de ma compagnie: I begged the abbess to give me back the order, that I might deposit it in the archives of Strawberry, and she complied instantly.

The abbess has no distinction but a larger and richer gold cross: her apartment consists of two very small rooms.

I begged the abbess's blessing; she smiled, and said, she doubted I should not place much faith in it.

313 examples of  abbess  in sentences