Or it is possible that these are the kindred of Holofernes and that they have supped guiltily in their tents with a sisterhood of Judiths.

She absolutely refused to make over her property for the good of the sisterhood, and would not undertake an office which would shut her up from her mission of proclaiming far and wide, as the Divine Hand opened the way, the message of the Saviour's love and the Holy Spirit's sanctifying power.

a worthy sisterhood!

Now Lulu felt that she and Di actually shared some unsuspected sisterhood.

She had a vision of a whole sisterhood of women toiling amid steam and soapsuds in secret, and in secret denying themselves, to provide him with all that he lacked, so that he might always emerge into the world unblemished and glitteringly perfect.

*** How she could effect this her wicked escape is my astonishment; the whole sisterhood having charge of her;for, as yet, I have not had patience enough to inquire into the particulars, nor to let a soul of them approach me.

But she was one of that meek sisterhood who, thinking humbly of themselves, believe they are honored by being spent in the service of less conscientious souls, whose careless thanks seem quite reward enough.

By nature shy and meditative, and with her religious bias, had she been born into a Catholic family, she might not improbably have found the world well lost in a sisterhood.

A numerous company of widows, dressed in white from head to foot, particularly attracted attention; they constituted a sort of sisterhood, observing certain rules, and gaining their livelihood by various descriptions of manual work.

We have formerly alluded to the well-known feats of the weird sisterhood on the broomstick; but it is affirmed that on these occasions the spirit left its earthly abode, the body being previously anointed with the ointment we have described.

A sprig of witch-elm sewn in the collar of the doublet, was celebrated amongst our great grandmothers as a specific against the malignant deeds of the weird sisterhood.

In the nave of the small church sat in comfortable arm-chairs two monks, one black, one white, leaning their ears to gilded grates and receiving the confessions of the sisterhood.

In that place is the convent of the Sisterhood of Our Mother of Pity.

So have we seen, in that beautiful market in Thames Street, whither the mariners of England bring the glittering produce of their netsso have we seen, we say, in Billingsgate, a nymph attacking another of her sisterhood.

The Marys, the Magdalens, and the Marthas were a strangely smiling Sisterhood....

In the Name of the Sisterhood I take my Leave of you, and am, as they all are, Your Constant Reader and Well-wisher.

Come to us; forget the Gigglers; and let your Inclination go along with you whether you speak or are silent; and let all such Women as are in a Clan or Sisterhood, go their own way; there is no Room for you in that Company who are of the common Taste of the Sex.'

Accordingly in the Twenty-fifth Year of her Age, while her Beauty was yet in all its Height and Bloom, he carried her to a neighbouring City, in order to look out a Sisterhood of Nuns among whom to place his Daughter.

Relentless and not over-just were they of this weird sisterhood.

In the sisterhood she bore the familiar name of Lize.

Next you encounter the realization of the sisterhood of women.

BEGUINS, a sisterhood confined now to France and Germany, who, without taking any monastic vow, devote themselves to works of piety and benevolence.

"In His name, if you come, to that," said the Doctor, who was a good sort of man, notwithstanding his professional cool ways, "there is a sisterhood, that I am told offer to do things like this.

But I will not insist on the supplications of your sisterhood, day and night devoted to the service of their Maker; to you only do I turn.

"You deserve to be one of the sisterhood yourself, Captain Ludlow, for this readiness in divination!" "Amazement and surprise, Patroon!"