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It is customary in that Country for young People in an Evening to resort to the Grates of the Nunneries, there to divert themselves, and the Nuns, with a little pleasant and inoffensive Chit-chat.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

Here is the reprint of one of the most formidable books against Nunneries ever published.

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

That subterraneous passages from the Seminary to the Nunneries, we ourselves have seen, and close by the spot designated by our correspondent:—

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

And I am apt to think, those who would palm upon the World like vicious Relations of Nuns and Nunneries, do it on much like Grounds.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel

Not that there are wanting Instances of Nunneries disfranchis'd, and even demolish'd, upon very flagrant Accounts; but I confine myself to Spain.

From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel