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Meanings of nunnery in английском

The habitation and workplace of a community of monks or nuns.

A convent for women.

Usage of nunnery in английском
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Anies should have been delivered into a cloistered nunnery thirty years ago.
Surrender to the will of the night
2
He was standing in front of the nunnery ready to go home.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
3
The nucleus of the nunnery was a private house called Beauchamp House.
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney
4
Her best move would be to follow the sister-in-law into a nunnery.
Wolf hall
5
Just as they passed the nunnery the huge hundred-ton bell rang out.
The Darling and Other Stories
6
He said you were like a sorceress brought up in a nunnery.
The Wishing-Ring Man
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I remember a gaunt nunnery and two-gray-robed sisters clanging shut the gates.
The Agony Column
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You should give me a nunnery, I want to found an order!
The red queen
9
Since the day she entered the nunnery, she was never seen again.
Petals from the sky
10
His manner was curt enough to please the superioress of a nunnery.
The Captain of the Kansas
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She afterwards founded the nunnery of Wimborne, of which she became abbess.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
12
Zuleika, with her peculiar temperament, would have gone mad in a nunnery.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
13
Nothing at all is left of the famous nunnery of St Mary.
England of My Heart : Spring
14
He built a nunnery which was headed by his daughter as prioress.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
15
Did she retire from the world, and find refuge in a nunnery?
The Coming of the Friars
16
In its ambience it is closer to a bordello than a nunnery.
Quicksilver
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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