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
Then the proud henchmen bare them to the palace of Alcinous, and the sons of noble Alcinous took the fair gifts, and set them by their reverend mother.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
Good night, dear and reverend mother; good night and good-bye.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
The reverend mother drew Angela to her side, took off the little black silk hood, and laid her hand caressingly on the soft brown hair.
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)
