reverend mother
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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
Ah, reverend mother, ten such moments will age a man by ten years.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Then the proud henchmen bare them to the palace of Alcinous, and the sons of noble Alcinous took the fair gifts, and set them by their reverend mother.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Indeed, reverend mother, it is time for me to go to those to whom I belong.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The reverend mother put everything at their disposal.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
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