This convent is also very large, but not so immense as that of San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
The Santo Domingo convent is spectacular, it is being repainted an it is something to see. From Wordnik.com. [San Crist�bal and World Heritage Status] Reference
The convent is rich; each novice at her entrance pays five thousand dollars into the common stock. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
This 16th century former convent is a grand property, meticulously restored, yet retaining all its former grace. From Wordnik.com. [Hotels & Accomodations In Oaxaca] Reference
The convent was a rambling building, with adobe walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference
The only habitual visitors of the convent are the Bedouins. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
Before daylight, the site of the convent was a gulf of flame. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
Duchess of Orleans, a convent was the only retreat Mademoiselle. From Wordnik.com. [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
We lodged as usual at the convent, that is, with the clergyman. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The first night I spent in the convent was a night of agitation. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Roland, Makers of History] Reference
The convent is a very remarkable building, and well worth seeing. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
Therefore, let us call the convent Establishing Blessings convent. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Nuns] Reference
The convent is a refuge for penitents, of whom some 230 are received. From Wordnik.com. [Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London] Reference
"No doubt -- but why did she call the convent a Sodom and Gomorrah?. From Wordnik.com. [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1] Reference
Mother, in his last charge, that a convent ought to be a little heaven. From Wordnik.com. [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference
Under these circumstances, Aurore's departure for the convent was a deliverance. From Wordnik.com. [George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings] Reference
An 'I say it, knowin' that the convent is the best place in the world for anny girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Disappearing] Reference
The convent was a spacious edifice, but gloomy and forbidding, with the aspect of a prison. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
It is in charge of one Augustinian religious from the Malolos convent, which is close at hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The museum is in a former convent, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference
This official in a convent was the same as cellarer or superintendent of the cellar and provisions. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
I was, literally, a slave; and of all kinds of slavery, that which exists in a convent is the worst. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The prior of the convent was the captain of the bandel, with power to try minor but not capital offences. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
I returned to the convent, that is to say, my body returned but my heart and soul never entered there again. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the human heart, should last during the whole life. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
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