noviciate

When we were at the noviciate, we observed, while serving his private Mass, that after the introit, the gradual, the offertory, the communion – all the sung pieces, in short – he would mark a pause, not found in the rubrics, and absorb himself in meditation.

The Music Speaks Along with the Words 2009

During her noviciate, her spiritual director was Fr Aladel, who had also been the director of St. Catherine Laboure.

The Green Scapular Marguerite 2007

During her noviciate, her spiritual director was Fr Aladel, who had also been the director of St. Catherine Laboure.

Archive 2007-07-01 Marguerite 2007

Lochleven, hunted round to the place in which I served my noviciate, and now ye are come to rouse me up again! —

The Abbot 2008

He could not avoid the remembrance of what very poor things the amateur rowing clubs on the Thames were in the early days of his noviciate; not to mention the difference in the build of the boats.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

That would be given to her when she finished her noviciate.

The Last of the Wilds Canavan, Trudi 2006

You are indeed in your noviciate, as to every laudable attainment.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Dearest Madam, forbear for the present: I am but in my noviciate.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

My father applauded my resolution, and I immediately was admited a noviciate into this monastery, with the Superior of which my father had in his youth been acquainted.

A Sicilian Romance 2004

At this moment a squire, clothed in a threadbare vestment, (for the aspirants after this holy Order wore during their noviciate the cast-off garments of the knights,) entered the garden, and, bowing profoundly before the Grand Master, stood silent, awaiting his permission ere he presumed to tell his errand.

Ivanhoe 2004