And yet, methinks, I would choose to die a nun rather than offend the council!"

His fault was in making a nun of his wife, which was in the eyes of the world a virtual repudiation; even though, from a principle of sublime obedience and self-sacrifice, she consented to the separation.

O, 'twere thing impossible!" "Is this duchess so heavy, messire?" sighed the nun, "is she a burden beyond even thy strength, sir knight?

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).

"Ask the nuns, to whom he is father confessor; they will have no other, and refuse admittance to one of our order who hath been sent to take this duty upon him.

He burned the convent, he burned the church, he burned the nuns!

He had actually bribed the guards of Kajana; he had instructed the faithful Felix, he had provided our boat, and he had ordered the nun to open the water-gate to me.

I could not forbear shewing my surprise at seeing a nun like her.

"And yet," quoth she, shaking her head and looking up with eyes of witchery, "thou did'st love this nun also?

On the 15th December 1819, she had a detailed vision of all that had happened to herself, but so that she thought it concerned some other nun who she imagined must be living not far off, and who she supposed had experienced the same things as herself.

The great religious house which had grown up thus with England, continued its great career right through the Middle Ages, about forty nuns serving there in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, though this number had dwindled to twenty-three at the time of the Surrender in 1539.

And yet, you would not like the serenade, Nay, and you damned his nuns in masquerade; You did his Spanish sing-song too abhor; Ah! que locura con tanto rigor!

"M'sieur, I am astounded!" declared the nun.

And my lordstabbed meso must I dieof a nun, see you!Ahgive mewater!" "Where doth he ride this night, messire?"

But now the time is coming to marry her, I much doubt these nuns.

That had been the voice of Margarita da Cordova, and she could never go back to Spain, for if she did the Inquisition would seize upon her, and she would be tortured and probably burnt alive to encourage the other nuns.

I have envied the nuns their convents.

He saw white-capped girls cleaning door-knobs or windows, or running along the streets, like escaped nuns, or staring in soft meditation from bedroom windows.

* 'Well, the next morning I went down the steep High Street, and found a young nun at the bottom whom I had left the previous evening with a number of girls in uniform opposite the Guildhallhalf-way up the street.

In burst the door, and away fled the frightened nuns, shrieking, at his coming.

St. Augustine forbids nuns to bathe more than once a month, unless under extreme necessity.

On account of a report that a Russian spy disguised as a nun had been arrested the same morning, the people imagined the nun to be a man in disguise.

Here she met many eminent men, chiefly ecclesiastics of the Dominican and Jesuit orders; and here she inspired other ladies to follow her example, among others a noble nun of her own order, who sold all she had and walked to Rome barefooted, in order to obtain leave to establish a religious house like that proposed by Theresa.

She kissed every nun on the hand, and also Elizabeth, her, whom she would only see here.

What mean those laughing Nuns, I pray, What mean they, Nun or Fairy: I guess they told no beads to-day, And sang no Ave Mary.