What is "nunnery"

Usage examples of "nunnery".

He thanked her for her open dealing, and begged her pardon with a smile for sending a fine young man to her nunnery.

In the afternoon Bouchier and I went and had a hot bath at an old nunnery by the river.

Those unable to find shelter in one of the friaries, nunneries, public houses, or private homes on either side of the Tweed were obliged to live under canvas, encamped on the common lands that extended out into the surrounding countryside.

He will forgive me when on my knees and with tears in my eyes I tell him that I am ready to bury myself in a nunnery.

He swore to Bolthor yestermorn that time passed so slowly in this nunnery that he counted the hours by the drips of his candle.

More than once he visited the locutories of nunneries, to deliver through the heavy gratings presents from Don Rafael to certain black and white shadows, which attracted by this sturdy young country boy, and aware that he meant to be a painter, overwhelmed him with the eager questions born of their seclusion.

Abbess of the Ladies of Faenza, established at Florence, determined about this time to have the Church of their Nunnery decorated with frescoes.

When the Tsarevitch, Alexis, was brought to trial in 1718 on a charge of conspiracy against his father, Peter, suspecting that Eudoxia had had a hand in the rebellion, ordered a descent on the nunnery and an inquiry.

If they did not follow their mistress to a nunnery, where would they find safety from the upheavals he foresaw?

She was conventionally pious, but her piety ran afoul of her practicality, which told her that here was an opportunity to get what she wanted rather than waiting forever until the Pope was induced to advance her to some larger nunnery.

It was then, and in the chapel at that holy place, connected from above with a Carmelite nunnery, from beneath with the cell of the anchorite, that one of the Queen's attendants remarked that secret sign of intelligence which Edith had made to her lover, and failed not instantly to communicate it to her Majesty.

He will forgive me when on my knees and with tears in my eyes I tell him that I am ready to bury myself in a nunnery.

In the Beguines they had a sect of their own, a lay order that followed its own religious rule of good works and, when nunneries had no room, provided a place for unmarried women and widows, or, as a bishop wrote in criticism of the Beguines, a retreat from the “coercion of marital bonds.

Their route took them in a sort of jagged arc circumventing the Queen’s Apartments, which had been turned into a sort of Portuguese nunnery quite a long time ago, furnished with prayer-books and ghastly devotional objects.

When we had finished, Dainty and I looked that plain and bacon-faced, we might have been trying for places in a nunnery.