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
But you must stay with the reverend mother, sweetheart.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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)
There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Tracy, Louis
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
