reverend mother
Example Sentences
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What is more, their reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reverend mother desires me to inform you that it is now the hour for mass—she has herself already entered the chapel.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
The reverend mother is a dear old thing.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
The reverend mother put everything at their disposal.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
I had learned that the reverend mother superior was the same over us in the convent as the priest in the confessional and church.
From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth
