Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions. |
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Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister. |
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Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece. |
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Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York. |
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And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery. |
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Despite her idyllic life spent listening to lutes and arranging flowers for vases in the nunnery, she was very unhappy. |
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In one of these dreams, I was living in a nunnery in Tibet on a large white lake. |
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My self-image was the absolute opposite of a person whom I envisaged living in a nunnery, but my yearning to learn overshadowed my deep anxiety. |
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We don't have television at our nunnery in India and I don't go to the cinema, listen to the radio or usually even read any newspapers. |
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There have of course been assumptions, that had she lived within a nunnery, this could never have happened. |
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It was as if Garbo had shorn her hair and entered a nunnery. |
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The next morning we found out we were in a passion fruit orchard owned by a nunnery. |
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The Taliban attack in Kabul would have taken place even if she was sitting morosely alone in a nunnery dressed in black and eating nettles. |
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Hermia has her own problems, though, since her father gives her the ultimatum of the nunnery, death, or a future with the lipless wonder Demetrius. |
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Rosamond died in or about 1176 and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar. |
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It also has exposed beams and an original wooden spiral staircase from a nearby nunnery. |
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You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey. |
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Within the monastery and nunnery, monks and nuns only refer to their senior ordained sangha as venerable. |
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What do you want me to do, dress in black and live in a nunnery? |
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Even the sisters in the Hippo nunnery were warned that a woman can unconsciously and unintentionally throw a man off balance merely by a flashing eye. |
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So she takes herself to a nunnery, very conveniently as it turns out. |
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Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple. |
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Yes, the capricious, man-eating screen siren has, quite literally, gotten thee to a nunnery. |
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Virtue is not tested in the cloister or the monastery or the nunnery. |
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Spark, she points out, worked in intelligence during the war, and in her memoir Curriculum Vitae, notes that even the trees were bugged in the PoW camps, as are the nunnery grounds in her Watergate novel, The Abbess of Crewe. |
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Edward repudiated Edith and sent her to a nunnery, perhaps because she was childless, and Archbishop Robert urged her divorce. |
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In going public, all hope of tempting Catherine to retire to a nunnery or otherwise stay quiet were lost. |
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Tonight's EastEnders sees Kat Moon pay a visit to a nunnery. |
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The Raphael painting may well have been painted for a Perugian widow and used for private prayer in her bedroom, prior to her entering a nunnery. |
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At the end of the afternoon, Jetsunma answered questions from the assembly and commented on a powerpoint presentation about her Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery so as to get some support. |
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He hides in a nunnery, pretending to be a gardener, while happily deflowering most of the impressively-bodied holy order. |
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Politics also spilled over into Gregory's performance of his religious duties, especially his dealings with the nunnery of the Holy Cross in Poitiers, which had been founded by Queen Radegunda. |
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In the early 18th century, the order of Ursuline nuns established a nunnery and school for girls. |
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On 7 July 1548, a Scottish Parliament held at a nunnery near the town agreed to a French marriage treaty. |
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She later became abbess of a nunnery at Restalrig, now part of Edinburgh, and was in due course canonised as St Tredwell. |
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The Augustine nunnery now only survives as a number of 13th century ruins, including a church and cloister. |
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Dominic monastery on the ruins of the House of the Sun and a nunnery where the House of the Virgins of the Sun was stood. |
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I dinna wish to worrit myself about ye running off to the nunnery or wi' another man. |
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Earl Leofric of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva built on the remains of the nunnery and founded a Benedictine monastery in 1043 dedicated to St Mary. |
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By the 1760s little more of the nunnery remained standing than at present, though it is the most complete remnant of a medieval nunnery in Scotland. |
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Get thee to a nunnery, why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? |
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Her 77-year-old mother Marita was working at the Druk Amitabha Mountain DGK nunnery outside Kathmandu when the first earthquake hit Nepal in April. |
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The monastery and nunnery continued to be active until the Reformation, when buildings were demolished and all but three of the 360 carved crosses destroyed. |
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The visitorship in this nunnery is traditionally held by a Jesuit. |
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