abbess

Abbess Julia: You're a millionairess!

the abbess expounded the scriptures to her nuns.

The abbess led the daily prayers in the convent.

The abbess was known for her wisdom and kindness.

The abbess spent hours in meditation each day.

The abbess provided guidance to the nuns under her care.

The abbess wore a simple white robe.

The abbess was respected by all who knew her.

The abbess maintained a strict routine in the convent.

The abbess's words carried great weight among the nuns.

The abbess's presence brought a sense of peace to the convent.

The abbess's compassion touched the hearts of many.

The engraved ring of an abbess.

And now came out the lady abbess herself to inquire into the cause of this disturbance.

" Why, so I did, " replied Adriana. " Aye, " said the abbess, " but perhaps not enough" .

The spot was the burial-place of a king and a queen, of abbots and abbesses, saints and bishops, knights and squires.

Miss Winter's advent rather amazed her, I think, but she waved us into our respective chairs like a reverend abbess receiving two rather leprous mendicants.

Adriana stopped this melancholy procession, and cried out to the duke for justice, telling him that the abbess had refused to deliver up her lunatic husband to her care.

And the duke went with the abbess and her newly found husband and children into the convent, to hear this happy family discourse at leisure of the blessed ending of their adverse fortunes.

However, the abbess presiding over her education, in an effort to save her from wedlock, supposedly disguised Matilda as a nun so that when Rufus entered he found her hidden under the veils, compelling him to leave the church.