They were greatly attached to each other, and the gentlereligieuse was not only her father's confidante and consoler in the hours of trial and affliction, but was also his inspirer and ever-vigilant guardian angel.
The contemporary Recit d'une Religieuse Ursuline speaks of Frontenac with gratitude, as a friend and benefactor, as does also Mother Juchereau, superior of the Hotel-Dieu.
I have a confused memory of vigils and mornings and afternoons spent by that bedside, and how the religieuse hovered about me, and how meek and good and inefficient she was, and how horribly black were her nails.
The religieuse hovered sleepily in the background with an overdue and neglected dose.
I installed a religieuse in the second bedroom of the inn, and took a room for myself in the inn of Port de Luzon, a quarter of a mile away.
I sat leaning down to him, and following out my own thoughts, and presently the religieuse resumed her periodic conflict with the window fastening.
In the Memoires d'un Royaliste Falloux has preserved, with local colour, the spirit of that pilgrimage: Munich lui fut indique comme le foyer d'une grande renovation religieuse et artistique.
Sister wished to confer with this illustrious woman on the subject of her rules, and to add or retrench, as the holy religieuse might suggest.
He had applied a rosary to the body of the venerable religieuse on the day of the interment, and now laid the rosary on his breast.
He had two sisters in the city of Troyes, one a religieuse of the Congregation of Notre Dame, the other a secular lady--Mme.
The attendants ran to arouse the community, that they might assist the dying religieuse by their prayers, and have the consolation to witness the death of the just.
She had heard that he was religious, and immediately began to play the part of a devote so seriously, that she was seized with a violent desire to become a veritable religieuse and enter the convent of the Carmelites.
Again the searching eyes of the religieuse surveyed me; she sighed slightly.
To mock a religieuse is a common amusement with young girls and women of the world.
To a girl in the heyday of youth and beauty the life of a religieuse seems ridiculous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "religieuse" 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
