reverend mother
Example Sentences
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What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nay, reverend mother, I doubt whether of his own accord Cromwell would have done this thing.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
"I question if you will find her at Paris," said the reverend mother.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Ah, reverend mother, ten such moments will age a man by ten years.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
I reminded the reverend mother of her promise to me in regard to school, and she told me that she had not forgotten it, that the two years' novitiate was all schooling.
From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth
