reverend mother
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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
Your reverend mother Is grown a very old woman in two hours.
From The White Devil by Webster, John
The reverend mother ceded with as good a grace as she could assume, on the top of a very arbitrary temper.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Returning toward the hospice, we met the reverend mother and a sister; they took us into the little chapel where we were to hear mass the following morning.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
Thy reverend mother would thine eyes engage To view thy walls, dismantled long with age And base neglect, and ponder her gray hair.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
