lady superior
Example Sentences
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"That is the way he is always," declared the lady superior.
From Within an Inch of His Life by Gaboriau, Émile
"The doctor does not want to hear his name mentioned," replied the lady superior.
From Within an Inch of His Life by Gaboriau, Émile
"I wish to see the lady superior," he said to the lay sister at the wicket.
From Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Late one evening, the lady superior was alarmed by a violent knocking at the door.
From Winning His Spurs A Tale of the Crusades by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
This was Michaelmas: on that day the press was to have followed Lenette's Salzburg emigrants, the napkins, as their lady superior; but nobody in all the town would have anything to do with it.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
