It is not then among Germans who adopted Arian Christianity that the beginnings ofconvent life must be sought.
Before considering the beginnings of convent life as the work of women whose existence rests on a firm historic basis, we must enquire into the nature of women-saints.
Besides gay clothes and pets other frivolous amusements broke at times the monotony of convent life.
The miracle of Sister Beatrice leads to the consideration of another type of popular literature, which throws much light on convent life.
An accent of past but unforgotten sorrow had crept into her voice; and once more Evelyn was convinced that she had not, like Veronica, passed from innocent childhood into the blameless dream of convent life.
The character of the book is clearly defined in the first pages: she perceived it to be a complete manual of convent life, a perfect compendium of a nun's soul.
The little pond at her feet was full of fair reflections of the sky and trees, and the idea of convent life lay on the pages of the book even as fair.
After giving me these first instructions in convent life, she left me, and I was allowed to sleep the rest of the night.
In fact, if I give anything like a correct account of my convent life, it will be little else than a history of punishments.
How then could I avert the consequences of this deep aversion to convent life, since it could not be concealed?
In all my thirty-one years of convent life, I never had a chair with a back to it more than a dozen times in the refectory (as the dining-room is called).
As a result of the exposure and hardships on this trip I contracted sickness from which I did not completely recover during the remainder of my convent life.
This was one time in my convent life that I received what I had asked for, in fact, it was just the opposite extreme of what I had been experiencing in my previous Mission.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convent life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
