At noon the Belgian First Division moved forward and Thompson and I, leaving the car in front of a convent over which the Red Cross flag was flying, moved forward with it.
We had left it standing in front of a convent over which a Red Cross flag was flying on the assumption that there it would be perfectly safe.
In 1286, the prior and convent of Durham had purchased land there (which is now the site of Trinity College) for the purpose of securing further education for the monks of Durham.
In 1287, a site for the erection of a college for the monks, which was known as Gloucester College (now Worcester), was conveyed to the abbot and convent of Gloucester.
The prior and convent of Coxford were the patrons of the church of Rudham by Coxford.
In addition, a supply of men capable of transacting the legal business of the convent was also necessary.
We note, too, that Peter of Blockesley gave possessions to the prior and convent of Coventry in trust for the school.
Taking first the case of the chancellor of a secular collegiate church, we note that the prior and convent of St. Catherine's by Lincoln were the patrons of Newark Church.
Every scholar shall say daily the matins of Our Lady for himself, and on every festival day the Seven Psalms for the convent and our founders.
It is no gloomy abode, the Convent of Tor di Specchi even in the eyes of those who cannot understand the happiness of a nun.
In this convent she gave the habit to her own mother, as well as to many noble ladies of Ferrara.
Some of the fresco paintings in the convent of Tor di Specchi represent this vision, and are visible to this day.
Her wish was not opposed by her mother, and she entered as lay-sister in the Augustinian convent at Florence.
The constant sickness and infirmities which she suffered after her illnesses at the conventprevented her from going out at night and contemplating the heavens, as had been her custom when a child.
Hitherto she had been placed before the eyes of man as an object of enthusiastic veneration: her convent gates were crowded by peisons of all ranks, who thronged only to see her for a moment.
The bowl in which San Francesca compounded this miraculous remedy is preserved in the convent of Tor di Specchi.
Multitudes flocked to the convent to see and touch the sacred wounds, and came back full of the wonders which their own eyes had witnessed.
Being arrived at Ferrara, the duke received her with extraordinary honours, and built a magnificent convent for her reception, to which Pope Alexander VI.
During her visits to theconvent she used to work indiscriminately in the kitchen or in the parlour; waited at table, and cleaned the plates, as it might happen; and could not bear to be treated with the least distinction.
How mournful the cadence that swells From the lonely roof of the convent Where pale nuns rest!
Among them reposes a portly corked bottle, in which minor fragments of the warrior lord were placed after the moving of his remains from the Convent of San Pedro in chains, where for many years he occupied a more seemly tomb.
Rarely a convent or a chapel escaped her; she sipped them all as if they had been flower-cups and she a humming-bird, and managed to extract some unknown honey of comfort from their bitterness.
Towards the close of her days she spent most of her time in the Convent of St. Catherine, and she was there when attacked by her mortal sickness.
Ibn Batuta tells a story of a friend of his, the Shaikh Sa'íd, superior of a convent at Mecca, who had been to India and got large presents at the court of Delhi.
The station itself is supposed to be on the site of the convent kitchens and consequently the present ruins are very scanty.
This was originally a convent founded in 1158; for some unknown reason the nuns were evicted in the following century, since then it has been an almshouse, probably the oldest foundation of its kind in the county.
Across the valley of the Oreto from Monreale, on the slopes of the mountains just above the little village of Parco, lies the old convent of Sta.
It had been arranged that Padre Stefano should remain at the convent all night, and that as soon as midnight made it possible he should say the first mass for the repose of the girl's soul.
This precious relic is now in the Ursuline convent at Cork.
Monks and nuns are eligible as teachers if they pass the examinations, and any convent or monastery can be made a national school by accepting the regulations and observing them.
When the famine occurred in 1847 she admitted to the convent every child that could be accommodated, and also gave asylum to many widows who were left homeless and destitute.
The Presentation Convent was founded in 1833 by Rev.
Her head was carried to the convent of Neustadt, Austria, and in 1587 was removed to the Church of the Jesuits in Lisbon.
She next selected the brightest and most deft-fingered children and women in the convent and taught each separately what she herself had learned.
A short account of this famous conventmust precede any story of its members.
Catherine remained quietly in the palace, preferring her position, unpleasant as it was, to the persecution and possible incarceration in a convent which would result from any interference on her part between the king and his mistress.
Her early days were spent at the convent of the Carmelites and at the Hotel de Rambouillet, her mind--in these opposite worlds of religion and society--being divided between pious meditations and romantic dreams.
Music was a favorite art with her; she encouraged and rewarded singing, especially in the convent which she founded and where she spent almost all of her later days instructing the children.
The famous salon Du Deffand at the Convent Saint-Joseph was not opened until 1749; there she was very particular as to those whom she received, and access to her salon was a matter of difficulty.
Then she turned to God, penitent and in despair; twice she sought refuge in a convent at Chaillot.
During the time of the civil wars the conventbecame a resort where charity and hospitality were extended to the poor peasants.
Born in 1681, she early became a nun; but such was the character of her life at the convent that it was not long before she became a mother.
Will you bring her forth at once, or I will fire your convent and your sanctuary together?
We must not be long," answered Count Rudolph; and advancing to the gates, he entered the outer court of the convent where the Abbess stood ready to receive him, with all marks of gratitude and respect.
As she spoke, she opened the other door, and Adelaide following her as she advanced, found herself in the garden of the convent of Heiligenstein.
We live in strange bad times; but here you will be safe, if there is safety to be found; for no one will venture to assail the Convent of the Holy Cross, or those who live beneath its walls.
When she was five years of age the family moved to Montreal, and she was placed in the convent of the Sacre Coeur, where she received her education, and such musical instruction as the convent could provide.
I called at theConvent of the Minims, and I found that he had left Naples to proceed to Martorano.
I spent two delightful hours in the convent parlour, coping successfully with the curiosity of all the nuns who were pressing against the grating.
It was while at Ferney that he adopted a young girl of noble but poor family, rescuing her from a conventand marrying her to the Marquis de Villete.
Feeling that his end was nigh, he begged to be removed to the convent of St. Onofrio, where he was carried off by fever on the very day appointed for his coronation.
In that place is theconvent of the Sisterhood of Our Mother of Pity.
But the King was quarrelling with his Electors, and was in bad humor, and sent to Uri to forbid them from assessing land-rates on a convent there.
I made my way to the convent and begged permission to look on the dead face of my wife.
At Cyprus is an abbey of monks, on the Hill of the Holy Cross; and here Amaury and his men were housed for the night, and I and my women at a convent of nuns not far off.
With the arrival of the prior, entrance into the convent was made easy for his illustrious Lordship, to whom the friars set forth that they could not gratify his wishes without first making the auditors aware of his claims.
He finally returned to Spain for the last time, and died after a few years in the Dominican convent of Valladolid.
The convent surrendered on the same evening and the castle on the following day.
The troops were then marched through the town, and the garrison driven either into the convent of San Francisco or into the castle of Felipe.
Putting my eyes close to this peep-hole I looked downward and saw below me the grass plots of the convent garden.
The only nice thing about the convent was the vacation that took us away from it, back, out of the burning summer valley to the bay, the rows of gray-faced houses, the shipping and the wind.
It seemed to me that a city was the most delightful and absorbing plaything a child could have, and it was a hard arbitrary blow of fate that took me from it to the convent school at Santa Clara.
In front of me, not three feet from the window was the blank face of the convent wall rising straight up, higher than I could see.
I was often running over there to see Hallie or Estrella, and my shortest way lay past the convent that stood a little apart in the middle of the settlement.
My head was so dizzy that I had to catch at the bushes to hold myself upright, and my body felt sore and shaken, but the impulse to get away from the house, whose windows overlooking the convent wall still spied upon me, carried me to my feet.
Father, by terrible ways that I knew, hidden from the others, I took her safe to the convent gate.
Once," said the man, "our band broke into a convent garden and stole away one of the nuns, to sell as a slave or to keep for a ransom.
After having led us to the other Convent des Ursulines, of which I have spoken, he dined with us, and I conceived a great respect for the old gentleman.
Sufficient sons having been born to them, the father returned to his monastery and the mother sought a convent for herself.
Near the Armenian convent is, however, very good too also; the city is handsomer, but the place is not so simple and lovely.
Next we reach the church, convent and Scuola of S.
This convent was freed by him from all episcopal jurisdiction.
This prince had neither the abilities nor the vigour of his father; and was better qualified for governing a convent than a kingdom [n].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
