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

Ah, my reverend mother, unless thou come to my aid I perish," and quoth she, "What is upon thy mind?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Ah, reverend mother, ten such moments will age a man by ten years.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

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

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