| In one of these dreams, I was living in a nunnery in Tibet on a large white lake. |
| And when it came to details, he was known to be worse than a fussy abbess running a nunnery. |
| 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. |
| Lacock Abbey, built as a nunnery in the thirteenth century, survives largely intact despite several campaigns of alterations and additions. |
| Isabel Thwaites was an orphan and had been placed under the guardianship of the Abbess of a nunnery at Appleton, near York. |
| Despite her idyllic life spent listening to lutes and arranging flowers for vases in the nunnery, she was very unhappy. |
