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
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 Elizabeth Schoffen
Nay, reverend mother, I doubt whether of his own accord Cromwell would have done this thing.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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 E. Rameur
But you must stay with the reverend mother, sweetheart.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
