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From Salon • Dec. 15, 2013

Convents were hot spots for nutty outbreaks, too: In 1491, nuns in Cambrai, France, started yelping like dogs, whereas the sisters in a Spanish nunnery took to bleating like sheep.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2010

Others are preserved in the Convents of the Holy Cross at Jerusalem, and of Mount Sinai.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

They are always turning up the Ruins of old Convents, and hope like the Cock to find a Jewel in the Dunghill.

From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John

Convents were being pulled down, or at least altered so as to render them suitable to other purposes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various