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lady superior

noun as in mother superior

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After viewing the interior of the nunnery, I told the Lady Superior that I had a party of friends at the hotel who would like very much to see the building, and that if she would permit me, I should like to bring them around in the morning.

She consented, and the next day I took the entire party to the nunnery and we were shown through by the Lady Superior.

Still in her teens, and staying with her aunt, Lady Superior at St Ursula's, From here some fifteen miles, whither I go By order of her father, at full speed To carry back his daughter to his hall?

This was Michaelmas: on that day the press was to have followed Lenette's Salzburg emigrants, the napkins, as their lady superior; but nobody in all the town would have anything to do with it.

Further she met Sister Sudham Machari of Upasikarama, Peradeniya Road, Kandy, a prominent Singhalese nun, who with the assistance of Lady Blake, the wife of a former governor, had founded the first modern Buddhist nunnery in Ceylon where she now lives as lady superior.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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