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Sentence Examples You were educated in a convent school, you are a feminist, you know post-colonial theory. Until the school was completed classes were held in the convent parlours and hall and in church galleries. She arrived at the doors of the convent while the abbess was praying in front of the church's crucifix. Then the abbess of the convent presents Antipholus of Syracuse, also claiming redress. I thought of the convent school in which I was educated from kindergarten to high school. Sixteen kneelers are lined up along the front of the altar, one for each nun that resided at the convent in 1962 when the church was built. In 1536, Angela Greca repented her life as a courtesan and became a nun in the convent of the convertite. When her parents moved to Norway, Mina and her elder sister boarded at a convent school in Perth. Around the year 1271 he served as lector in the Dominican convent at Freiberg in Saxony. It was not much more than a shack but soon they were joined by local women who had longed for the day when a convent would be opened. He received a commission for the altarpiece, to be painted for the royally patronized convent church in Madrid. Eliza requests that Jane stay a second week, finally informing her that she plans to enter a convent and take the veil for the rest of her life. The whole convent got together for prayer and worship in the sanctuary, ate all their meals together, and participated in community service. In 1598 Santa Isabel enjoyed the beneficence of Ana Paredes Aldrete who left the convent a rent worth 1000 maravedis a year. I laugh at the thought of matzo ball soup warming on the convent kitchen stove. Roslea is the site of an ancient church and convent dating back to the seventh century. The convent building was originally a merchant bank and had come down through their family. Classes for secondary school pupils were held in the convent to begin with. Even a nun from a local convent declined the opportunity to voice support for her beleaguered religious superior. Gertrude of Helfta was a nun at the convent of Helfta, a centre of Benedictine learning and piety, from the age of 26 until her death. Show More Sentences I once stayed at a convent where the sisters placed a photo album in each room with pictures of the things they wanted people to donate. They compelled the sisters to leave their convent and forbade the townspeople to lease us property. The convent cloister of the Minorite monastery, originating from the year about 1500, is of an oblong ground plan. At the age of sixteen, she left the convent to marry Jimenez's father, Antonio. In 1604, the Ursulines opened their first convent in France that was dedicated to educating women. During the year of her novitiate it was supposed to give the convent 100 ducados as a maintenance allowance. The convent countered that those sums had been for the year of her novitiate, but that her formal profession involved a new set of expenses. This rice is currently being tested by novitiates at a convent in the Philippines to see how well the nutrients are absorbed in the human body. Hroswitha became a canoness and was allowed to leave the convent for outside visits. The elegant Georgian convent buildings, including a neo-classical chapel dating from 1769, are steeped in history. It happened that it was the first convent in Tubbercurry long before the Marist Convent was put into operation. It's not all bad news for the former Chorlton convent girl, whose hard-nosed approach to her job earned a lot of admirers. The nun's attempts to flee from the convent supposedly create hilarious situations. One day she was taken into the parlour of the convent and told by a nun that her mother was dead. Bridget had to give up work as a part-time cleaner and cook in the local convent when she got sick. The film patiently follows her through each phase of her initiation into convent life. Sitting rooms lead off a wide, airy corridor, like a convent cloister, where light floods in. Once she is coerced into signing adoption papers, she's bundled out of the way and into the convent to save her parents further humiliation. Her convent education fails her in her moment of greatest need, though it does enable her to retrace her steps down an older path with new eyes. We learn that neither a convent nor the institution of marriage would be likely to provide the kind of safety required from the invading French. Show More Sentences After being expelled from two convent schools, she went to finishing schools in Florence and Paris. The intrepid devotee, who is half English and half Portugese, is based at the One in Christ convent in the Irish town of Cork. Just before the French Revolution, she enters a Carmelite convent to hide from the world. An impossibly attractive, damp-eyed French girl radiating a soft sense of melancholy shot straight from a convent school into the charts. She reported this to the Archbishop and she also offended him by not inviting him to manage her convent school. She was born a girl in a small French village in the middle of the 19th century, and she was sent to a convent school where she thrived. When two orphaned sisters are forced to leave a convent school, their lives take opposite directions. His son had died and after that he had sent his two daughters to a convent school to be educated. Robert spent his first six months of schooling at the convent school as it was not so far to walk. That's how she ended up at a convent school in Hampshire, before finishing her studies in France. Shortly after 6pm on a Monday, the only signs of life are students from the convent school waiting for a lift home and some passing cars. However, Mary Douglas's time in a convent school is not normative for people in our society. The new application sought permission to convert and refurbish the convent and erect two buildings on the site. The works will entail the conversion and refurbishment of the existing convent and the addition of two buildings. The convent primary school in Cappamore is participating in recycling schoolbooks, copybooks, notepads and workbooks. A convent was founded close by the site of the old gallows, and a small group of snooker-playing nuns still pray for the souls of the dead. Of noble birth, she entered religious life at the age of 14 and rose to become prioress of her convent at Disibodenberg. Rapley balances this diachronic argument with a more synchronic survey of convent life and the teaching activities of the nuns. It takes me back, to be precise, to evensong at St Matthew's, West Kensington, and Hail Marys at my convent school, but that is another story. These three sisters are the externs at the convent of St. Teresa in Coimbra where Sister Lucia lived for 57 years. Show More Sentences It is going to be a big event, with about 800 guests and in an ancient convent in downtown Mexico City. That's why I've dropped out of society and joined a convent in El Salvador. As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy. Among the items the young people will observe when they go along to the convent hall will be a haunted graveyard, a wax museum, a freaky wedding and Frankenstein's lab. Still standing are the gates at the Marist convent he made as well as the step ladder at the old water tower beside North Connacht College at Connolly Park. Among the items the young people will observe when they go along to the convent hall will be a haunted graveyard, wax museum, a freaky wedding and Frankenstein's lab. His memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover. The women are expected to be buried in a cemetery in the convent in Bujumbura. The trilogy follows Kate and baba, two lasses from the Shannon bogs, from convent school to the bright lights of London. She was prioress of the first reformed Carmelite convent in France, and spread the teachings of the founder of the French School, Pierre de Berulle, through the movement. Ana, incidentally, is the acknowledged but illegitimate daughter of a powerful Spanish lord who offered the convent a large sum for accepting his by-blow as a new recruit. She left the convent in 1997, went back to school, and later wrote a memoir about her experience, An unquenchable Thirst. For example, this safe space of the convent offers a myriad of previously unconsidered possibilities to Theresa in Gish Jen's novel, Typical American. This subplot narrates the story of a book written in Latin by Hernando de Rivas, a Nahuatl, during his stay in the convent of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco. Our heroine followed, entering the convent herself as a novitiate. Instead of sending her to a convent school he decided that she should be taught at home, and she received the sort of education that was more typical for boys. When a group of nuns came through Sligo looking for a place to build a convent novitiate and school for girls, great grandfather gave them several acres of his little farm. Give to a convent or monastery that's doing what it's called to do. Still, somewhere beneath your feet is a subterranean passage that obligingly ran from this all male seminary to the next door convent of Nazarene nuns. So Jim had a little sister who was going to the local convent school. Show More Sentences He works as a convent groundskeeper and shares his family home with three housemates, but even so he is virtually isolated, getting by with a few grunts and gestures. They were happy for her to follow her dream of the stage and sent her off to New York, on the condition that she lived in a convent finishing school. At convent school, I was always untidy and gobby and got everything wrong. There was no evidence that persons in the public area were ever offended, nor that the public area was frequented by gentle old ladies or convent schoolgirls. Anyway, one evening as we were manducating our victuals at a local eatery, my sweet and bashful convent girl asked me if I thought she looked fat. She pointed out that the original stained glass windows from the convent chapel are beautifully incorporated into the Prayer Room in Abbey Community College. It was not only dowries, alimentos, and other financial sums required by the convent that allowed professed daughters to remain connected to their families' property. He carried with him a clarification from the Rota, that if the court's decision withstood appeal, it allowed Francesco to place Cornelia in a convent of his choosing. But more picturesque venues include the Gothic convent of St Agnes of Bohemia and the Kinsky Palace, the most beautiful rococo building in Prague. Venice, on the other hand, was feeling increasingly threatened by a resurgent Rome and financially drained by money going to church-building and convent dowries. I spent my lunch hour talking to co-workers about my brief flirtation with joining a convent and as a result, got absolutely no studying done today. She spends her day baking flans for the convent coffee shop. Founded by the young, wealthy widow Ludovica Torelli in 1535, the convent of San Paolo issued from the yeasty religious experimentation of the early sixteenth century. However, after Arthur's death, Guinevere retires to a convent in penitence for her infidelity. The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean. In 1938 Stein was sent to a convent in Echt, Netherlands due to the increasing danger in Germany. Yet another purpose of the festejo would be to promote the convent of San Jeronimo itself, and the Hieronymite order in general. One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent. The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes. Henry II had to get Marie out of her convent first, which had been a common practice in England since the Normans. Show More Sentences Many once large and international communities have been reduced to a single convent or monastery with memberships of elderly men or women. Crystal was influential in a campaign to save Holyhead's convent from demolition, leading to the creation of the Ucheldre Centre. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defence. While he was infirmarian and porter at the Dominican convent of Our Lady of the Rosary, he became a one-man charity agency for all of Lima. Siblings Barney and Daniel Jones want to use an old convent in the town as a meeting place for Britain's 400,000 Jedi Knights. It is a general market business covering the reassignment and rehabilitation of the building of the convent in Saint Anne MR-MRS total approx. Every little Italian convent has managed to get their foundresses raised to sainthood, haven't they? This was long in the custody of the community of Augustinian canonesses who until 1983 lived at the convent at Abbotskerswell Priory, Devon. It also says that he married a second wife after Turfida entered a convent. Even outside the convent her actions were governed by the strict etiquette of the royal court of Portugal. There is scholarly debate as to whether Julian was a nun in a nearby convent or a laywoman. Woodford contextualizes her subject by describing the origins and function of early modern convent historiography. Holyhead's arts centre, the Ucheldre Centre, is located in the chapel of an old convent belonging to the order of the Bon Sauveur. In 1932, a South African hurling team sailed to Ireland to compete in the Tailteann Games, where they carried a banner donated by a convent of Irish nuns in Cape Town. Once Gundulph had entered a convent, Anselm, at age 23, left home with a single attendant, crossed the Alps, and wandered through Burgundy and France for three years. I think maybe that's why they gave me the old heave-ho from the convent. Quiet beauty spots of Minnewater Park with its lake and river and the ancient Beguinage with a tranquil convent garden, will leave you speechless. She was bunked from the convent last term. I don't quite know what for. Catherine is believed to have spent most of her youth in a convent close by the royal palace where she remained under the watchful eye of her protective mother. Catherine possessed several good qualities, but had been brought up in a convent, secluded from the world, and was scarcely a wife Charles would have chosen for himself. Show More Sentences It became a convent, then the Elizabethan home of the Leigh family. While the boys struggled, the girls from Rosary Convent were bang on the target. A fashion show in aid of the Marist Convent will be held in the Yeats County Inn, Curry, on Thursday, October 27, at 8pm. A race night in aid of St Joseph's Marist Convent Secondary School will be held in Walsh's Bar Main Street, Charlestown, on Friday November 18th. Yesterday evening I sang carols for a company Xmas drinks event at the Abbotsford Convent. St Anne's Convent School now plans to refurbish its facilities, improve staffing levels and build a new science block. He is a past pupil of Gortnor Abbey Convent and Anthony is now studying at GMIT Galway. We passed by the Convent and old Mrs Birrane peered at us through the closed gates. At St Mary's Convent of Mercy School, pupils shed tears of joy on opening their results. The Convent girls are transported beyond the life-death dichotomy into a kind of living death reminiscent of African religions. The statue began life in the Presentation Convent in Milltown, Co Kerry, and was recast by sculptor Liam Moore. She was also church sacristan at the Ursuline Convent for five years. The remainder of the boxes were filled by pupils in the local Convent Primary School, children attending the playschool and also the little girls in the Brownie group. Visitors to Lisbon may still walk the ruins of the Carmo Convent, which were preserved to remind Lisboners of the destruction. There is also the statue of the bleeding Jesus on the Crucifix at the Santa Monica Convent in Velha Goa. A relic, said to be her hand, is housed in the Bar Convent in York. Masaccio's developments were carried forward in the paintings of Fra Angelico, particularly in his frescos at the Convent of San Marco in Florence. The Convent, built of raw concrete, was austere and without ornament, inspired by the medieval monasteries he had visited on his first trip to Italy. The Las Capucinas Church and Convent is in Salvatierra and is one of only three complexes built for nuns in the entire state during the colonial period. Some examples of colonial architecture include the Monastery of San Francisco, the Plaza Mayor, the Cathedral, Convent of Santo Domingo and the Palace of Torre Tagle. Show More Sentences It describes the decisions made to construct a route which cuts off the valley from Beit Jala and separates the Salesian Convent from the Salesian Monastery. It was established in 1835 in the former Convent of La Merced. Examples from Classical Literature The sub-prior forced a rix-dollar on Gerard, and several brushes and colours out of the convent stock, which was very large. Her confessor asked her if she wished to be buried in her own convent at avila. In 1834 the Ursuline convent at Charlestown, near Boston, was sacked and burned. First he went to Amesbury, and in the convent there he saw Queen Gwenevere. We were entertained at the convent built over the place of the annunciation. Desiderius and his wife ansa endowed this convent with landed property which spread over all the Lombard kingdom. The calced Augustinian religious have their convent and church within the archbishopric. He died in the Carmelite convent at Ludlow, 1474, and was buried at Hereford. The handkerchief was worked at some convent in Italy and was fine as a cobweb. This Masonic convent has also decided that the means of production and exchange must be restituted to the collectivity. The last scene of the second act is in the gardens of the convent of Virgins of the Sun. He joined the convent of corbie, and there he had another vision and ecstasy. There is however still another Cyrillic printing office attached to an Armenian convent in Vienna. Two ladies-in-waiting, Beaumont and Saint-Louis, instead of going into the church, explored the convent court-yards. In the last style is the noticeable convent of San Marcos that stands isolated outside the town beside the swift blue-green river. Ten leguas thence by sea is the convent of San Marcos of Binangonan, with 120 tributes, or 400 persons. The general found in this mute parlor of the seagirt convent memories of himself. That every convent and monastery should pay a donative, proportionable to its riches and rents. Is your house more secure than the convent of the patriarch, or the palace of the emir? Certainly the convent never went to sleep in a sermon which had the tale of Chauntecleer and Pertelote for its exemplum. Show More Sentences You shall enter the convent with as rich a dowry as ever accompanied an Ursuline. This is none other than Fiammette herself who uses the convent for her gallantries. It was between this convent and a herbalist's that the shop transformed into a studio was situated. Our peaceful convent was from thenceforth like a bee-hive into which a hornet had entered. She begged permission, either sincerely or insincerely, to retire to the convent of Port Royal. Margherita left the precincts of their convent to join the worshippers in the Duomo. A marble tabernacle, decorated in mezzo-relievo and originally made for the nuns of the convent of the Murate. He had invaded the convent under a misapprehension, for which it was ridiculous to blame him. Just at the point of junction in the nailhead was a small convent garden, all scarlet, pink, white and dazzling emerald green. In our lay convent whatever each monk possesses is only a revocable gift by the convent. In the end, when she had divided it all, she retired to a convent of Carmelites, walled off from the world. Fortunately their convent numbered among its inmates one of the best leeches in all West Flanders. She was a nun and lived in a convent on the Papago reservation up to the north, quite far to the north, Jackie thought. To keep Jeanne from reciprocating his flame, she had been packed off to a convent school. Her father was fairly well-to-do for that part of the world, and had sent her, at an early age, to the convent of Rimouski. In his convent there is a black cat which has a tiny white tip to its tail. Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. I almost wish we were Papists, and I had a convent to put her in to-morrow. I only wish my daughters had come from the convent as creditably. It was like the supper of an ordinary Swiss hotel, and good red wine grown by the convent in more genial air was not wanting. Show More Sentences Further on in the same street is this convent of ours at malate. He founded a convent for Sufis and a professorship of jurisprudence. But it has been stated that near the convent are the monks of La Trappe. For instance, the convent clock won't go, and Galileo mends it for them. The Dominican convent is there, just below the Trinity de' Monti. And you girls probably worshipped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director. Barabas also turns Abigail's virginity into an exploitable vendible, for it enables her to enter the convent and rescue Barabas's treasures. He is much with the franciscans, who have a convent at Rostino. He spoke to a priest who served a convent of Franciscan nuns. From the convent garden came the melting lilt of the golden oriole. Some minutes after, the superior of the convent sent to inform the Musketeers that the burial would take place at midday. For poetry is as much a part of convent school-life as is handball. All the convent was royalist, and Henri V. was their recognised sovereign. It was the same at Abbaye aux Bois, the convent where I was taught. What more could she have learned in a convent at Manaos or belem? On leaving the convent we proceeded to the nunnery in the neighbourhood. There is a church connected with the convent at chartreux, Provence. When we reached the convent gate, the second volante was empty. There, on all sides, are heard convent bells and liturgic sounds. The convent was situated in the most populous part of Madrid. Show More Sentences I have sure spies on the Saxon's motions To-night they sleep in the convent of Saint Wittol, or Withold, or whatever they call that churl of a Saxon Saint at Burton-on-Trent. In general the house was quiet, dumbly quiet, without resonances of any sort, something like what one would imagine the interior of a convent would be. Was there no convent of Saxon endowment, where he could be received? During her abbacy, she treated the convent as her personal fief, clearly distancing herself from the other sisters by exempting herself from the order's rules. Vallejo and her husband, Robert Lenhardt, bought the former convent last year, and they've renovated the building and carved out parking in back for clients and guests. You are to be carried in a coach to-night to the Convent of the Carmelite Nuns. But the monks never got into a cozier nook than the Convent of the Camaldoli. She is habited as a nun, for she founded the Convent of Longchamps, and died there, its abbess. The reader must now cross the Seine with us and follow us to the door of the Carmelite Convent in the Rue Saint Jacques. It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. Unless his devoted toil was to be wasted for ever, his successor must have some knowledge of Arabic, but I had studied Oriental languages at the Armenian Convent. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of convent? Words that rhyme with convent What is the past tense of convent? What is the plural of convent? What is the adverb for convent? What is the adjective for convent? What is the noun for convent? Translations for convent Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words convenor convening convenient to conveniently convenient conveniency Convent conventicle convention conventional conventionalised conventionalism 7-letter Words Starting With c co con conv conve conven