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
Thy reverend mother would thine eyes engage To view thy walls, dismantled long with age And base neglect, and ponder her gray hair.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
The reverend mother ceded with as good a grace as she could assume, on the top of a very arbitrary temper.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
I had learned that the reverend mother superior was the same over us in the convent as the priest in the confessional and church.
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
Euphrosyne had a strong persuasion, all the while, that she should one day tell her reverend mother the whole.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Martineau, Harriet
