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

If this reverend mother," he added, turning to the young nun, "will carry out my directions, something may be done.

From Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 by Castaigne, J. André

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

Ah, my reverend mother, unless thou come to my aid I perish," and quoth she, "What is upon thy mind?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The reverend mother is a dear old thing.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie