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nunnery
1. ‘I’ve scrapped the nunnery idea, Sarah
2. I often think about my devastated nunnery, and often my thoughts fill with a strange, melancholy notion
3. One of them lives in a nunnery and another lives in a tiny house by herself, though both are nuns
4. For this she had been in prison for a number of years and after her release finds it most appropriate to live by herself, not trying to draw attention to her larger nunnery
5. Chatting amicably with one another during their twenty-minute walk, they arrived at the nunnery in what felt like minutes
6. The walk was only about fifteen minutes and when Francis and Krishna got to the front desk of the hotel, they asked Jasmine where the nunnery was
7. They made their way back up the street and almost passed it again, because an outer wall flanked the nunnery and housed a courtyard, and the outer wall blended in with the buildings on either side of it
8. A priest went to visit a nunnery in France, where they fed many children
9. What if these people took voluntary vows of poverty and chastity… and did not enter some safe-secure womb of a monastery or nunnery where they are clothed, and fed, and housed for free?
10. She was fond of giving alms to the poor, and was always dreaming of a nunnery, and once she burst into tears when she began talking to me about it
11. Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in
12. The monastery and the nunnery were separate institutions, with their own premises, and different sources of income
13. “The nunnery could be removed to another location, and become a remote cell of the priory, like Kingsbridge College, or St-John-in-the-Forest
14. “Over the years, many devout women have given the nunnery land and other assets
15. You could do nothing better than to join our nunnery and dedicate your life to the sacrament of
16. “The proposal that Caris be permitted to enter the nunnery is an interesting one
17. nunnery would not have been Caris ’s choice as a way of life, but her consolation will be an existence dedicated
18. Godwyn said: “What if she should leave the nunnery?”
19. But Bishop Richard had stated that if Caris ever left the nunnery she would be under sentence of death
20. who came into the nunnery from the outside world
21. Then Caris had begun breaking the nunnery rules, and responding to correction by questioning the rationale behind convent discipline
22. He wanted to ask her how, but at that moment the two leaders of the nunnery came into the room
23. “The nunnery,” she said firmly
24. In the nunnery she had learned to live without physical contact
25. She had rejected him more than once, and on the last occasion she had made her rejection final by entering the nunnery
26. “Forgive me, but I am in charge of the nunnery,” Cecilia said with asperity
27. Cecilia said: “It was left to the nunnery
28. So they fretted with impatience at a nunnery just outside Portsmouth and waited for news
29. Tonight’ s destination was a village named, after the nunnery at its centre, Hopital-des-Soeurs
30. She realized, as she approached, how used to nunnery life she had become
31. As they breasted the rise before Hopital-des-Soeurs, the sun came up directly ahead of them, casting a red light on the nunnery, making the ruins look as if they were still burning
32. Still, she would appeal to Bishop Richard and win justice for the nunnery
33. She was at the nunnery school
34. Caris said: “Marry the child, yes, with all due ceremony – but then let her return to the nunnery for a year
35. She had joined the nunnery
36. She ’s guest master at the nunnery now
37. However, such things were important in the life of the nunnery
38. “In that case,” he said, “you should renounce your vows, leave the nunnery, and marry me
39. nunnery under duress, when it was the only way to save her own life
40. So it was a terrible shock to find her reluctant to leave the nunnery
41. Ralph was a thirty-one-year-old soldier who had spent half his adult life in an army, and Tilly was a girl of fourteen who had been educated in a nunnery
42. Caris was the best person to run the nunnery, even though she was sceptical of lives spent in prayer and hymn-singing
43. When Merthin had returned from Florence, Godwyn had hoped that Caris would renounce her vows and leave the nunnery
44. especially about inheritance of nunnery properties whose tenants have died of the plague
45. “How dare you enter the nunnery?” she said
46. Tell him Mother Caris is now in charge of the nunnery
47. She had got the nunnery charters back
48. The nunnery had enjoyed an influx of novices to replace the nuns who had died
49. Tilly had attended the nuns’ school and lived at the nunnery for years, and she was fond of Caris
50. Fugitives might take refuge in churches, as a general principle, but it was very doubtful whether a nunnery had the right to shelter a knight’s wife and keep her from him indefinitely
