"Nunnery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education
... hurried to explain. "I never loved but once, and then would die for it." The jasmine trembled in its chaste white nunnery, and her lips were temptingly apart. He bent forward boldly, searching her ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... the general scheme or principle in this case. It is in the details that the barbarous simplicity of the author comes out. For example, in the invasion of the lands on which he has a claim, Raoul attacks and burns a nunnery, and in it the mother of his best friend and former squire, Bernier. The injured man, his friend, is represented as taking it all in a helpless dull expostulatory way. The author has no language to ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker
... too happy—though as pure and guiltless as if they had been hours spent within a nunnery of the strictest rule, and in the presence of ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 • Various
... are not tied by kinship duties, they may run away from the industrial battlefield. In which event the safest thing the man can do is to join the army; and for the woman, possibly, to become a Red Cross nurse or go into a nunnery. In either case they must forego home and children and all that makes life worth living and old ...
— The People of the Abyss • Jack London
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