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How to use nunnery in a sentence

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Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions.
Release from the nunnery can sometimes prove to be provisional, and now she has immured herself in another cloister.
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.
Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York.
And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery.
Despite her idyllic life spent listening to lutes and arranging flowers for vases in the nunnery, she was very unhappy.
In one of these dreams, I was living in a nunnery in Tibet on a large white lake.
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.
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.
There have of course been assumptions, that had she lived within a nunnery, this could never have happened.
It was as if Garbo had shorn her hair and entered a nunnery.
The next morning we found out we were in a passion fruit orchard owned by a nunnery.
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.
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.
Rosamond died in or about 1176 and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar.
It also has exposed beams and an original wooden spiral staircase from a nearby nunnery.
You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.
Within the monastery and nunnery, monks and nuns only refer to their senior ordained sangha as venerable.
What do you want me to do, dress in black and live in a nunnery?
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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Examples from Classical Literature
The next day, at dawn, Albina received the Abbot of Antinoe at the nunnery.
We will start on our drive to the nunnery as early as you please, chevalier.
Miao Shan further promised to observe all the regulations of the nunnery and to obey the superiors.
On the march we passed a nunnery, where we halted for about a quarter of an hour.
When is she coming back to the monastery or the nunnery or rectory, or whatever it is?
But in the midst of his brooding, Teppich and the fat Sturgeon assailed the nunnery gate with pot-valiant blows and shouts.
But I think that little Jane Scoupe at school in the nunnery at Carowe would dry her eyes and smile when she read it.
As Columba is the Latin for dove, the dove became a sort of signification of the nunnery.
We reached the monastery before dark, and there the males were given lodging, but the women were sent over to the nunnery.
The nunnery flourished for more than a century, when, in the time of Penda, who was the reactionary of heathendom, it fell into decay.
At length he settled at Hampole, where was a Cistercian nunnery.
He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed.
On leaving the convent we proceeded to the nunnery in the neighbourhood.
He can't get into mischief in that little nunnery over there, and Mrs.
And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits.
For this marriage to Casaubon is as good as going to a nunnery.
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