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of Occurrences 289%

The Abbey of Cluny, founded in 910, supplied a further reform tending to guard the office from further accretions.

in Occurrences 45%

Sir John, who stepped into the Abbey in 1540, married twice, and the premature appearance of a son by the second wifewidow of Sir George Halghbrought the bar sinister of which so much has been made.

for Occurrences 20%

A printer would naturally resort to the abbey for patronage, as in those days it was the head-quarters of learning as well as of religion.

at Occurrences 20%

A scholar named Grimbald came from St. Omer to preside over his new abbey at Winchester; and John, the old Saxon, was fetched from the abbey of Corbey to rule a monastery and school that Alfred's gratitude for his deliverance from the Danes raised in the marshes of Athelney.

on Occurrences 12%

Immediately after his victory William vowed to build an abbey on the site; and a fair and stately pile soon rose there, where for many ages the monks prayed and said masses for the souls of those who were slain in the battle, whence the abbey took its name.

to Occurrences 9%

" It was while William was encamped upon Telham Hill, expecting the battle of the morrow, that he vowed an abbey to God if He gave him the victory.

from Occurrences 7%

There, and I think most fittingly, lies that Sir Anthony Browne who got Battle Abbey from the King who had stolen it.

with Occurrences 7%

CHAPTER III Arrival at NewsteadFind it in RuinsThe old Lord and his Beetles The Earl of Carlisle becomes the Guardian of ByronThe Poet's acute Sense of his own deformed FootHis Mother consults a Fortune-teller Mrs Byron, on her arrival at Newstead Abbey with her son, found it almost in a state of ruin.

by Occurrences 4%

Fair maid, it's thus in brief: This abbey by your means may have relief; An hundred marks a year.

near Occurrences 3%

The next day she placed me as a boarder in a great abbey near Paris, where I have masters of all kinds, who teach me, among other things, history, geography, grammar, mathematics and riding.

under Occurrences 3%

Dean Stanley, in his Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, writes: "Free admission was given to the larger part of the Abbey under Dean Ireland.

as Occurrences 3%

" She disliked "Gothic" romances, such as The Mysteries of Udolpho, and she wrote Northanger Abbey as a burlesque of that type.

among Occurrences 2%

In 1784 he died, and was buried in Westminster Abbey among the poets whose lives he had written.

after Occurrences 2%

He became the owner of the abbey after the Dissolution.

during Occurrences 2%

He there promised, that, at the death of any bishop or abbot, he never would seize the revenues of the see or abbey during the vacancy, but would leave the whole to be reaped by the successor; and that he would never let to farm any ecclesiastical benefice, nor dispose of it for money.

without Occurrences 1%

Scythrop snatched from its repository his ancestor's skull, filled it with Madeira, and presenting himself before Mr. Glowry, threatened to drink off the contents, if he did not promise that Marionetta should not leave the abbey without her own consent.

amid Occurrences 1%

While other religious orders had their splendid abbeys amid large communities, the Cistercians humbly asked grants of land in the most solitary places, where the recluse could meditate without interruption by his fellow-men, amid desolate moors and in the uncultivated gorges of inaccessible mountains.

beside Occurrences 1%

Dryden died in 1700 and was buried in Westminster Abbey beside Chaucer.

between Occurrences 1%

Jane Austen is another example of comparatively rapid creation, writing three of her best-known novels, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-three.

like Occurrences 1%

Byron, pleading his privileges, and paying his fees, was set at liberty; but he appears henceforth as a spectre-haunted man, roaming about under false names, or shut up in the Abbey like a baited savage, shunned by his fellows high and low, and the centre of the wildest stories.

outside Occurrences 1%

Beginning at the Place du Châtelet as the Rue St. Denis, opening at its farther end on the Boulevart St. Denis and passing under the triumphal arch of Louis le Grand (called the Porte St. Denis), it there becomes first the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, and then the interminable Grande Route du St. Denis which drags its slow length along all the way to the famous Abbey outside Paris.

THROUGH Occurrences 1%

ON VIEWING THE RUINS OF BYLAND ABBEY THROUGH THE DETACHED GATEWAY ON THE WEST.

above Occurrences 1%

His companions would have digged a second grave, and set therein, his friend; but the knight would in no wise consent, forhe saidhe purposed to take counsel of the priests of his country, as to building some church or abbey above her tomb.

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