" "Conventual!"

It has always appeared to me that the moral defect in Italy does not proceed from a conventual education; because, to my certain knowledge, they come out of their convents innocent, even to ignorance of moral evil; but to the state of society into which they are directly plunged on coming out of it.

It is to the parish church of Our Lady of Charity that we must turn for any memory of the conventual house where many a pilgrim must often have knelt to venerate the relic of the Holy Cross.

No conventual porter could keep his keys better than this custos with the "lidless eyes.

Here and there a low island, reclaimed from the sea by the patient toil of a thousand years, dotted the Lagunes, burdened with the group of some conventual dwellings, or picturesque with the modest roofs of a hamlet of the fisherman.

Brought up amid all the austerity and fanaticism of the Spanish Court, Eleanora de Toledo viewed woman's early life from the conventual point of view.

This legend is to the effect that the conventual building was once inhabited by women who ate children, and that a certain mother, whose baby they had kidnapped and eaten, cursed them so heartily and to such purpose that the gouffre was formed, and their convent, or the greater part of it, was supernaturally carried down the hill and plunged into the bottomless water.

Never leaning backoh, no! always straight and stiff, as if the conventual back board were there within call.

The larger part of the conventual church is now destroyed, but the north aisle is used as the Parish Church of Crowland.

This church stands on the site of the old conventual church, on the spot where once stood the Roman temple of Minerva.

Tewkesbury is famous for its magnificent conventual church, for the historic battle fought close to the town, and for the ancient timbered and pargetted houses in the centre of the town and down by the riverside, which rival even Chester.

At Cleeve the Cistercian abbey church has disappeared, save for the bases of the pillars in the nave, but the conventual buildings are some of the most perfect in England, those of Beaulieu in Hampshire and Fountains in Yorkshire being the only ones able to compare with them.

Under what was the refectory of the conventual buildings, one may find the crypt in a very good state of preservation.

Give a girl good looks, and good sense, and good health, and she is sure to wish to be some man's wife,unless she be deterred by some conventual superstition.'

A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial; the medium in which their ardent deeds took place is forever gone.

"You, you know, dear Alice, are promised to a conventual life.

It is a plain, open, and partly decayed sarcophagus, with withered leaves in it, in a wild and desolate conventual gardenonce a cemetery, now ruined to the very graves.

The sun struck on one angle of the garden, leaving the rest in cool green shade, a conventual twilight.

It had not the brilliant gaiety, overflowing with colours and scents of a garden in the open, bathed in full sunlight, but it had the shady and melancholy beauty of a conventual garden between four walls, with no more light than what came through the eaves and the arcades, and no other birds but those flying above, who looked with wonder at this little paradise at the bottom of a well.

But we have not far to seek for the reasons which led Plautilla Nelli and Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi to choose the conventual life.

<b>PAZZI, CATERINA DE</b>, whose conventual name was Maria Maddalena.

This library, together with that of the Dominicans, and the respective episcopal and conventual archives were burned by the Hollanders during the siege of San Juan in 1625.

It was built after the manner of conventual buildings generally,in a hollow square, with a cloistered walk around the inside looking upon a garden.

In order to understand anything of the true idea of conventual life in those days, we must consider that books were as yet unknown, except as literary rarities, and reading and writing were among the rare accomplishments of the higher classes; and that Italy, from the time that the great Roman Empire fell and broke into a thousand shivers, had been subject to a continual series of conflicts and struggles, which took from life all security.

The Camaldolese, like other Carthusians, are properly hermits, that is to say, their life is not conventual, but eremitical.