What is "superioress"

Usage examples of "superioress".

When we got to the convent a servant opened the side door, and noticing that she did not shut it after the girls, I went in too, and went with them to see the superioress, who was in bed, and did not seem at all astonished to see me.

Next day I paid my usual visit to the recluses, and the superioress came to tell me that the cardinal had told her that the Princess Santa Croce was coming to visit the house with some friends.

This observation seemed to petrify everyone except the superioress, who said that his eminence had now a perfect right to relax any or all of the rules of the establishment.

As soon as I appeared at the grating the superioress was sent for, and we had an interview.

The next day the superioress told me that his eminence had instructed her to do what she thought best for the welfare of the young people committed to her charge.

Cardinal Bernis, who was by, advised her that the first time she took the girls to the theatre she had better go in person, and tell the superioress that she would always send her carriage and liveried servants to fetch them.

The princess skipped for joy when she heard of my interview with the superioress, and the cardinal said he had guessed as much.

She told me that a man who really loved would not have acted in such a manner, and that I had been wrong to tell the superioress everything.

I told him that the superioress had spoken of him to me, and that I was thinking over the ways and means of obtaining a dispensation without any costs.

I told the superioress what the cardinal said, and she wrote to the merchant, and a few days after I saw him talking to the superioress and Emilie through the grating.

I found the superioress a polite and clever woman, wholly free from prejudices.

The time for the visit was fixed for the afternoon of the next day, and I let the superioress know early the next morning.

The superioress gave a smile of approbation, but I saw a dozen aged devotees pulling wry faces.

She seemed unable to find words wherein to thank the princess, who commended her and her friend Emilie to the superioress before she left the house, and gave her a small present to buy necessaries for them.

Not to be outdone, the Duchess of Fiano told the superioress that she would make me the almoner of her bounty towards Armelline and Emilie.