nunnery

Our training took place at The Novitiate Nazareth, a very nice retreat center that is a convent aka nunnery by some locals.

Way Down South Belizean' A New Trail 2008

Our training took place at The Novitiate Nazareth, a very nice retreat center that is a convent aka nunnery by some locals.

Archive 2008-04-01 Belizean' A New Trail 2008

But when the bishop came to visit a nunnery, that is precisely what happened.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

During three centuries, the nunnery was a neighbour of the monastery, but, in 910, as the Huns were wasting the country, the nuns, with the help of the Emperor Louis III, constructed a fortified convent in the valley.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Out of a sheer impulse for self-protection she flies to the nunnery, which is ready to give her life at the price of her womanhood and her self-sacrifice.

Celibates 1892

To give an idea of the feeling which has always been common in Rome against the Jesuits, it is enough to quote the often told popular legend about the windy Piazza del Gesù, where their principal church stands, adjoining what was once their convent, or monastery, as people say nowadays, though Doctor Johnson admits no distinction between the words, and Dryden called a nunnery by the latter name.

Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881

The nucleus of the nunnery was a private house called

Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London John Cunningham Geikie 1865

That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church.

Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832

The local Tibetan said the authorities had since locked down the area and sent troops into the nunnery, which is known as Ganden Jangchup Choeling.

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The very sight of a convent-spire was sufficient to set their Moslem blood in a foment, and they sacked it with as fierce a zeal as though the sacking of a nunnery were a sure passport to Elysium.

Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies Washington Irving 1821