And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to admit his brother to the house as a gardener, and his niece as a pupil.
The prioress went on:-- "You will remove your bell.
The prioress continued:-- "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture.
In 1847, the prioress was young, a sign that the circle of choice was restricted.
I must go pay my Duty to the Sub-prioress that lives all alone with her Cats.
The blast was but feeble, but Little John heard it, for, though the prioress refused to let him in with Robin Hood, he had lingered as close to his dear master as he could get, all day long.
The prioress locked the great entry door so that he might not come in, and he seized a huge stone mortar that three men could not lift ordinarily and hurled it against the door, crashing it in.
I will go to my cousin, the prioress of Kirklees, for she hath much knowledge of healing," he said.
Sir ROGER of Doncaster, By the Prioress he lay: And there they betrayed good ROBIN HOOD Through their false play.
Yet was he beguiled i-wis Through a wicked woman, The Prioressof Kirkesley.
The accursed prioress told me the wedding was not to be for eight days after the next new moon.
Here the abbess answered, "How could she make her sub-prioress while the other lived?
Robin; "the Prioress is the daughter of my aunt, and my cousin, and well I know she would not do me harm for all the world.
When the Prioress spoke the French of Stratford le Bow it is not intended that she spoke bad French, but the Anglo-French which was spoken at Court, in the Law Courts, and by English ecclesiastics of higher rank.
The prioress was, in right of her title, a baroness of England.
The good Prioress recalls faintly the heroic age of monasticism; yet St. Benedict and St. Francis would have recognized their truest son in the poor Parson, upon whom the pilgrims called only in the last resort.
Sir John Crosby not long before his death began to build the beautiful house in Bishopsgate "in the place of certain tenements, with their appurtenances let to him by Alice Ashfield, Prioress of St. Helen's.
The one sole touch of tenderness that I can remember, and it is very elementary and introduced quite casually, is that in which we are told that the Prioress is so full of pity that she would weep if she saw a mouse caught in a trap.
Chaucer's Nun or Prioress is delineated by him as full pleasant and amiable of port, and as even taking trouble to feign the cheerful air of a lady of the Court.
It may be that the prioresswho rode to Canterbury with Chaucer's pilgrims was the head of the Aldgate Minoresses.
But sometimes a prioressresigned while still young enough to miss her erstwhile autocracy and to torment her unlucky successor.
In the early history of Cistercian nunneries each house was governed jointly by a Prior and Prioress and in some cases a few canons are found holding the temporalities jointly with the nuns.
What a bustling hither and thither there would be, and what a confabulation in the parlour between my lady Prioress and her steward and her chaplain and the stranger sitting opposite to them and speaking his reasons "ful solempnely.
The typical prioress of the middle ages, however, was neither Euphemia nor Margaret.
Petition from Thomasyn Dynham, Prioress of Cornworthy concerning two children at school in her house, whose fees have not been paid for five years.
Also that the Prioress shall convert the fur trimmings, superfluous to her condition and very costly, to the discharge of the debts of the house.
The Prioress considered a while, and after many dubious shakings of the head, finally agreed.
He had noticed the deep ditch and massive wall which surrounded the building as he approached it, and the character of the place was better known to him than the prioress had supposed.
The wily prioress noticed this, and determined that they were very different characters, and as such must be differently treated.
But though the prioress was easy herself, she was not enough so for some of the sisters.
From the very monastery of which she was prioress she writes her burning letters.
The abbess or prioress occupied a position of responsibility and dignity not unlike that of the chatelaine.
Robin; "the Prioress is the daughter of my aunt, and well I know she would not do me harm for all the world.
Of course thePrioress has given orders for you to let me pass.
This was the case with Armathwaite, while the privilege also pertained to the prioress and nuns at Nunnery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prioress" 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
