Outfit for the Profession of an Austin Canoness at Lacock, etc.
One young and lovelycanoness dared to maintain the rights of her freedom, even in the face of her most amiable enemy.
At first the education of Saint Cyr had been entrusted to canonesses; but a canoness only takes annual vows; that term expired, she is at liberty to retire and marry.
The Canoness might well say it had turned out better than she expected.
Nuttie was fortunately too much in awe of the Canoness to write all the pertnesses that tingled at her fingers' ends, and she sent a proper and fairly meek letter, intimating, however, that she was only too happy to remain at Micklethwayte.
He was button-holing the Canon, and she was trying to do the same by the Canoness about some parish casualty.
She ought either to have them all, or there should be a charge on the estate,' said the Canoness decisively.
The residence at Redcastle was not over, but the Canoness had come to nurse her sister-in-law, and kept up the correspondence.
He has made a fool of himself, but I won't have the Canoness complaining that I take no notice of him; and it is easier done while he is there than when he has got into some hole in the City--that is if he ever gets anything to do.
The Canoness was visiting the Condamines at the Rectory, and very soon understood all the state of things, more perhaps from her former nurse than from Ursula.
She could believe it in faith, nay, she had already experienced the difficulties her father had thrown in her way of dealing with him, she tried to be resigned, but the good sense of the Canoness was too much for her.
The Canoness Deliane, being the only unmarried one of the twelve who met in the orchard of the Lady of Ariol, remains behind.
The assistant female judges are Deliane, the Canoness of Nivelle, Eglantine, Viscountess of Seligny, and Huguette of Montreuel.
The canonessand the Bernardine nun step into the enclosure reserved for the litigants.
The canoness invokes the punishment of the saints against the felony of Mylio; in her despair Eglantine declares that she will turn Bernardine nun the very next day.
All the voices, the voice of the merciful canoness excepted, demand with Countess Ursine, "Justice and vengeance!
The canoness steps forward in her turn, kneels down, and, slightly smiling, slightly smites her well-rounded bosom with her white hands.
Canoness Aigline is handsome and tall, her mien is imperious.
The slight commotion created by the vicious prank of the canoness is quickly calmed, and Marphise says: "The case has been heard and judged.
After dinner the count gave me a letter of introduction to a canoness at Coblentz, of whom he spoke in very high terms.
I went up to a canoness who was very fond of Italian poetry, and had no trouble in engaging her in an interesting discussion.
That obliged me to stop at Coblentz; but when I got down at the inn, I found that the canoness was at Manheim, while in her stead I encountered an actress named Toscani, who was going to Stuttgart with her young and pretty daughter.
The canoness rose, took my arm, and we seated ourselves at table together, still talking about Italian literature.
She leaves £10 to her Augustinian Canoness sister Limbania; and institutes her three brothers Jacobo, Giovanni and Lorenzo, and their heirs, her residuary legatees.
The Canoness de Rupelmonde conducted her niece to the prelate, to make her profession of self-devotion, and to utter the irrevocable vow.
At length the grated gates of the choir creaked on their hinges, and Madame de Richelieu, the high and noble Abbess of De Panthemont, advanced to resign the novice into the hands of her aunt, the Countess Canoness De Rupelmonde.
Invitations had been issued in grand form, by her aunt and guardian, the Countess Brigitte de Rupelmonde, canonessof Mauberge.
The Canoness De Rupelmonde conducted her niece to her praying-desk, where, as soon as the poor girl knelt down, she sank as if exhausted.
As to the Canoness de Rupelmonde, she was defeated at all points in her wicked plans against her beautiful niece.
The Canoness was an extraordinary curiosity to him.
Germain presided at the foot of the table, having on his right a Canoness and on his left a young lady to be described presently.
The Canoness he descried escaping, unseen by them, with the aid of a gardener, across the pond into the park.
Very often was the Canoness constrained to absorb herself in her little illuminated prayer-book.
In the name of mercy, Abbé, proceed," the Canoness cried.
She was made a canoness of the aristocratic order of St. Theresa, of which the Queen was the head.
Albany, on the other hand, had been brought up in the full worldliness of a canoness of Ste.
With another sign, he made the canoness understand that she and his father were to kiss his betrothed.
The Canoness said so, too; that's why she didn't wish to go away again, not even when they wanted to take her to the castle.
The Canoness had arranged her bouquet very gracefully and laid it beside her aunt's cup, who patted her arm with a grateful glance.
The Canoness was standing beside the old peasant woman, gazing rapturously into vacancy, as though still under the thrall of the notes she had just heard.
The Canoness was making tea, and poured it from a heavy silver pot into the cups handed around by a servant.
When the Canoness first came, though she had nothing herself, yet she always found something to give away.
You wonder to hear a Canoness speak so irreverently of noble birth.
At last it occurred to me that Mother Lieschen, with whom the Canoness was in the habit of talking about so many things, might be familiar with this accursed Berlin story, and I turned into the path leading to her lonely hut.
The Canoness nodded haughtily, raised the latch, and left me standing outside, disturbed and bewildered.
As soon as we rose from the table, the Canoness was retiring as usual, but her uncle said: "Come to my room, Luise.
But I can't help it; she is insufferable to me, with her Canoness airs and woful face the instant the company begins to be a little merry, and one or another goes a shade too far.
If you use violence and drag the matter before the courts, you may hear things far more damaging to the honor of our family than the news that the Canoness Luise has followed a strolling actor and made an unequal marriage by wedding him.
The Canoness held on her lap a woman's old blue waist, which she was so busily engaged in darning that she did not notice my approach until I stood close before her.
I am the last to defend a departure from duty," the old canoness goes on, "but in this case the blame really falls partly upon Ada's family.
At breakfast, on the first morning after his arrival, he cut the old canoness to the heart.
She had just escaped from the room where she had been caged like any bird for three whole days, and the canoness on the roof below was looking up at her prisoner helplessly.
Sharafat-Nissa, the old canoness who lived on the roof below the marble cupolas, had charge of the store of grain set apart for the purpose by the guardians of the mosque; but as a rule Kabootri fed the pigeons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canoness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abbess; novice; nun; postulant; sister
