Convents
[kɔnvənts]
Examples
- Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Have you then convents, to one of which you mean to retire? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The castles, churches and convents of the middle ages had their often highly ornamental locks and their warders to guard and open them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Among them are manuscripts from the archives of nearly two thousand families, monasteries and convents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Catholic Convents are a priceless blessing to the poor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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