All the sisters here are quite happy, and the prioress is extremely good. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of St. Teresa] Reference
Both of them are confined to their bed, and the sub-prioress is dangerously ill. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of St. Teresa] Reference
The prioress is quite well and happy; she is much better than I am, and she is also exceedingly devoted to your ladyship. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of St. Teresa] Reference
The prioress is so well skilled in these matters, that she has made the bargain with one of her friends, who knows it was for this house. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of St. Teresa] Reference
The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress, rosary in hand, was waiting for them. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress could do nothing; the archbishop had spoken. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress had one and one, the sub-prioress one and two. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Madame Eglantine, the prioress, with her nasal chanting, her. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
“But, Catharine, what abbess or prioress would dare —”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
The prioress returned and seated herself once more on her chair. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
"Between her home and Wherwell were many miles," said the prioress. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
She is the prioress of the abbey and is always dressed in her grey habit. From Wordnik.com. [The Prioress] Reference
(Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
That was in 1952, after I had plagued the prioress for two years to take me. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Marshall: Where Are Women's Voices for Peace? A Conversation with Sister Joan Chittister] Reference
In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that the circle of choice was restricted. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which resembled hesitation, broke it. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal mothers assist. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for Fauchelevent. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Fortunately, the prioress, completely absorbed in her own thoughts, did not hear it. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at the gardener. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The prioress waved him to a seat, and herself sat down apart, where she could watch his face. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Mother Mariana regularly receives letters from the prioress of our mother house at Polesworth. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
“We wanted to let them know we hold no grudges,” Sister Andrea Verchuck, the sub-prioress, later recalled. From Wordnik.com. [From a drunk-driving tragedy, lessons in forgiveness] Reference
It is only wonderful how the sub-prioress contrived to keep her ground many years against these suspicions and incriminations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
She was, at the time of her death, seventy years of age, and had been many years sub-prioress of the convent of Unterzell, near. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
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