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Meanings of nunnery in английском
Синонимы
Examples for "abbey"
Examples for "abbey"
1
It cannot be; and I shall die the property of the abbey.
2
He left the court and hid himself in the abbey of Saint-Germain.
3
The roof crumpled and fell in, and again dust hid the abbey.
4
Of the abbey to battle under the banner of the patron saint.
5
The abbey church was beautiful in its architecture and of great size.
1
The converted monastery You know what monks were missing 400 years ago?
2
The life in every way was like the life in a monastery.
3
Alexius ascended the throne; and his aged competitor disappeared in a monastery.
4
The possession of this relic formed the principal attraction of the monastery.
5
The fish-ponds lay between the monastery and the river to the south.
Usage of nunnery in английском
1
Anies should have been delivered into a cloistered nunnery thirty years ago.
2
He was standing in front of the nunnery ready to go home.
3
The nucleus of the nunnery was a private house called Beauchamp House.
4
Her best move would be to follow the sister-in-law into a nunnery.
5
Just as they passed the nunnery the huge hundred-ton bell rang out.
6
He said you were like a sorceress brought up in a nunnery.
7
I remember a gaunt nunnery and two-gray-robed sisters clanging shut the gates.
8
You should give me a nunnery, I want to found an order!
9
Since the day she entered the nunnery, she was never seen again.
10
His manner was curt enough to please the superioress of a nunnery.
11
She afterwards founded the nunnery of Wimborne, of which she became abbess.
12
Zuleika, with her peculiar temperament, would have gone mad in a nunnery.
13
Nothing at all is left of the famous nunnery of St Mary.
14
He built a nunnery which was headed by his daughter as prioress.
15
Did she retire from the world, and find refuge in a nunnery?
16
In its ambience it is closer to a bordello than a nunnery.
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Nunnery through the time
Nunnery across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common