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Nunneries, with a crocodile for the Abbess, gave way to scenes in the Placers, where Nuns were gold-washing, and Friars riding down cataracts on caymans.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

Secrets of Nunneries, by Scipio de Ricci. p.

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

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

Nunneries, however, were outside Jenny's set of conceptions.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

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