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Sentences ending with convent

In short, you will not go to the convent? [10]
Precisely because he was so strongly attached to this unfortunate woman, once so richly gifted, he desired to offer her the opportunity to obtain pardon from Heaven, and therefore insisted upon her retiring to the convent. [10]
Oh, how I trembled when Cousin Maud first took me to the convent. [10]
The defiant desire to punish him for departing without a word of farewell urged her back to the convent. [10]
I begged him to give me back his love and confidence, and, if I must for evermore be parted from you, to let me be with him, not to put me away into a convent. [11]
I watched you till you went to the convent. [11]
Moved by these thoughts, she gazed across the courtyard to the convent. [10]
It was in this way I became the possessor of the wonderful instrument I have spoken of, which had been purchased for him out of an Italian convent. [6]
This it was their intention soon to do, for within the past day or so our batteries had not sought to spare the convent. [11]
Major Stobo met the fugitives under a wind-mill, probably the old wind-mill on the grounds of the General Hospital Convent. [11]

Short sentences using convent

The convent is burning! [10]

More example sentences with the word convent in them

Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
The convent, too, would be ready to receive her--the abbess had told him so--if Herr Groland, of Nuremberg, kept his promise of paying her admission dues. [10]
Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
Must she die without knowing how much the fire had injured the newly built convent, on whose site she had enjoyed the springtime of love, and how the good Sisters fared? [10]
I paused once with a twinge of remembrance before the long line of the Ursuline convent, with its latticed belfry against the sky. [9]
Among the many whom Kunigunde received into the convent as novices, she was most certainly "called. [10]
Three thousand gulden, which he had lent to the Convent of Vierzehnheiligen, and of which he might at any time require the repayment, he had set apart to ransom Herdegen and pay for his home-coming. [10]
Finally, the dowry which Els was to bring bore no comparison to the large sums Ernst Ortlieb had lavished upon the erection of the St. Clare Convent, and hence it was inferred that the wealth of the firm had sustained considerable losses. [10]
The convent bells were soon heard tolling after the fugitives: Paula and Pulcheria were pulling them. [10]
As the drought went on, almost all the wells in the place dried up, except that of the Tramontano and the one in the suppressed convent of the Sacred Heart,--I think that is its name. [4]
The April sun was shining brightly when the convent gates closed behind Kuni. [10]
My eye afterwards was frequently turned to that convent with painful interest. [4]
Albeit the Convent was closed to all other men, it was ever open to its lord protector. [10]
Now Eugenie is upon a throne, and a voluntary recluse in a convent of one of the most rigorous orders! [4]
At eight o'clock to-morrow night she will be taken to the Convent of the Ursulines, to be there shut in. [11]
He also vowed to the convent and its saint--which, come what might, should also be his--a rich gift whenever the Emperor or the gaming table again filled his purse. [10]
Sophie had gone to school at the convent in the city, but she had no ambition. [11]
I like better to go to a little garden in the village of Meta, under a sunny precipice of rocks overhung by the ruined convent of Camaldoli. [4]
I am bound to avow that she had scarcely more practical knowledge of the peasantry amongst whom she lived, than a nun has of the country-people that pass her convent gates. [14]
An hour after this I was marching, with two other men and Gabord, to the Convent of the Ursulines, dressed in the ordinary costume of a French soldier, got from the wife of Jean Labrouk. [11]
We staid at this great convent all night, guests of the hospitable priests. [5]
She was sixteen, they tell me, when the old gentleman emerged from the pit, and they packed her off to a convent by the next steamer. [9]
In the Convent there was fresh rejoicing. [10]
The domes of the New Convent of the Virgin glittered brightly and its bells were ringing particularly clearly. [2]
The linden and the neighbouring houses cast dark, sharply outlined shadows upon the light pavement, and from the convent garden the song of the nightingale echoed down the quiet moonlit street. [10]
The nuns from the convent were present, down to the most humble lay Sister; but they were under great obligations to her mother, and their abbess was her father's sister. [10]
Every one in the Convent of St. Cecilia, from the abbess down to the youngest novice, knew that the Patriarch had sent word by a carrier pigeon forbidding the Bishop to allow the priests to take part in the ceremony. [10]
The door of the convent closed that severed her from the world forever. [4]
You have heard that their father would even attack them, yet he doubtless loved them and would never resolve to place them in a convent. [10]
I was sure that should he guess at the exact relations between us, Alixe would be sent behind the tall doors of a convent, where I should knock in vain. [11]
It is this that has borne the name, at any rate since the time of Justinian; the celebrated convent of the Transfiguration lies at its foot, and it has been commonly accepted as the Sinai of Scripture. [10]
She had been taken to the convent, and immediately afterwards her father and brother had gone their ways--Juste to General Montcalm, and the Seigneur to the French camp. [11]
The lightning had struck only the convent barn; the cow stable, when we arrived, was still safe, but the flames soon reached it also. [10]
Laennec tells the story of a convent, of which he was the medical director, where all the nuns were subjected to the severest penances and schooled in the most painful doctrines. [6]
From the sanguinary sports of the Holy Inquisition; the slaughter of the Coliseum; and the dismal tombs of the Catacombs, I naturally pass to the picturesque horrors of the Capuchin Convent. [5]
I sometimes think she will drive me into a convent. [4]
In the convent she had reached the conviction that it would be degrading to think longer of the man who, in return for the most ardent love, offered nothing but alms in jingling coin; yet her poor heart would not cease its yearning. [10]
In the convent she could remember the happiness which had once raised her to its loftiest height. [10]
The old man seemed to measure her height in a glance which struck to her heart with its fierce enmity, and then he said deliberately: "On the morning of the nuns' flight the accused, Paula, went to the convent and there tolled the bell. [10]
She longed to see her aunt at the convent. [10]
The nearer the sedan-chair came to the Ortlieb mansion the faster her heart beat, for that very day, probably within the next few hours, the abbess would compel her to choose between her father's house and the convent. [10]
It was the same at Abbaye aux Bois, the convent where I was taught. [9]
I can see over the whole garden, only not what goes on near the convent on the other side of the house, or beyond those trees. [10]
He and the other prisoners were taken to the right side of the Virgin's Field, to a large white house with an immense garden not far from the convent. [2]
If I could only do without the open air, the forest, horses, and hunting, I should suit convent walls far better than this Eva, whom Heaven itself seems to have created to be the delight of every man's heart. [10]
But there is one thing I feel no disposition to overlook, and no disposition to forget: and that is, the honest gratitude I and all pilgrims owe, to the Convent Fathers in Palestine. [5]
The poor people of Sorrento, when the public wells and fountains had gone dry, used to come and draw at the Tramontano; but they were not allowed to go to the well of the convent, the gates were closed. [4]
But the Convent of Pillenreuth was a right comfortable shelter, and my lady the Abbess a woman of high degree and fine, hospitable manners; and the table was made longer in a winking, and laid with white napery and plates and all befitting. [10]
The little bunch of bells in the convent tower is jangling out a suggestion of worship, or of the departure of the hours. [4]
I told her of all I had seen at the cathedral and at the convent, what my plans had been, and then I waited for her answer. [11]
She instantly thought of a cordial she had in the house, the gift of a nun from the Ursuline Convent in Quebec; a precious little bottle which she had kept for the anniversary of her wedding day. [11]
Sister Hyacinthe was obliged to return to her convent, so no one accompanied her except Frau Lamperi. [10]
A musical dirge now fell on Paula's ear from the convent chapel. [10]
The convent was not visible from her chamber, but the acrid odor of the smoke and the loud voices which reached her ear from that direction proved that the fire was no trivial one. [10]
Katharina, meanwhile, did not go home at once to her mother; on the contrary, she went straight off to the Bishop of Memphis, to whom she divulged all she had learnt with regard to the inhabitants of the convent and the intended rescue. [10]
The abbess would not forbid such love, and the impulse that drew her so strongly to the convent was the longing to know how her aunt would receive her confession. [10]
The convent could not be, for I was no Catholic, and marriage seemed the only thing possible. [11]
But the monks never got into a cozier nook than the Convent of the Camaldoli. [4]
The heroine of my romance was neither young nor handsome; she had no lover; she had entered the convent of her own free will, as a respectable asylum, and was one of the most cheerful residents within its walls. [4]
She had clung more closely to him than the woman to whom he owed his life, for his mother had deserted him to take the veil in the convent of the Sisters of St. Clare, but her maid-servant Ursel would not part from him. [10]
In a few minutes we came to the convent, and halted outside, waiting for Doltaire. [11]
He gave it me to read, and when I read it I saw there was no place for me in the world except a convent or marriage. [11]
They will put me in a convent, and I shall see you no more, but I shall have saved you. [11]
Spite of her marvellous beauty--Katterle knew that there was nothing false about it--she would probably end by joining the nuns in the convent. [10]
It was founded many ages ago by a holy recluse who lived at first in a cave in the rock--a cave which is inclosed in the convent walls, now, and was reverently shown to us by the priests. [5]
Grief for her loss, repentance for not having devoted herself faithfully enough to her, and the hope that in the convent her prayers might obtain a special place in the world beyond for the beloved sleeper, now revived her wish to take the veil. [10]
If I should lose your esteem I should go into a convent. [4]
It seemed more like traversing a convent than a palace. [4]
They are not like Englis' beauties, there is the father and the mother, and--the convent. [9]
So it was left to him to designate which convents should be suppressed, and he had, of course, begun by laying hands on the few remaining Melchite retreats, among them the Convent of St. Cecilia, next to the house of Rufinus. [10]
A strange and lasting impression was wrought upon me by a corpse and a picture in this convent. [10]
Yet, if she kept the florins, the sacrifice at the convent would lose a large portion of its value, and the good opinion which her act at Augsburg must have inspired might be shadowed. [10]
The dealer in indulgences had said that the paper made the pilgrimage unnecessary, and the confessor in the convent had only commanded her to go to Altotting. [10]
Eva was praying in the death-chamber for the soul of the beloved dead with some of the nuns from the convent, who had lost in her mother a generous benefactress. [10]
He, too, saw in the convent the fitting place for her future life, now bereft of its best possessions; but although she succeeded in retaining her composure during his entreaties and warnings, she still most positively refused to obey the Emperor's order. [10]
When she isn't in the convent she is always at home, or with Aunt Kunigunde or one of the nuns in the woods and fields. [10]
She had heard in the convent of Graslin, the goldsmith, who had bestowed on the chapel a silver shrine for the relics, and went to him. [10]
The old man, in a rage, upbraided her with being a blinded fool, and asked her whether she did not know that the world was finite and limited, whilst what the convent contained was eternal and boundless. [10]
Wolf's representations and imploring entreaties remained as futile as those of Sister Hyacinthe and the abbesses of the Clare Sisters and the Convent of the Holy Cross, who had sought her by the confessor's wish. [10]
Take my word, I'd teach cousin Zoe a lesson with all her education and her two years at the convent. [11]
Besides, he knew how warmly and steadfastly his father had taken the part of this very convent against the patriarch. [10]
At the very hour when Rufinus closed his eyes, the town-watch of Memphis, led by Bishop Plotinus, appeared to claim the Melchite convent of St. Cecilia, and all the possessions of the sisterhood, in the name of the patriarch and the Jacobite church. [10]
Then she and her mother were taken to the convent at Constance. [10]
Yet she must have the redeeming paper, and Tetzel lowered his price after her declaration that she possessed only five heller pounds and the convent viaticum. [10]
Yet she would have been at liberty to remain in the convent as a lay sister without taking the vows. [10]
But, no; he had just gone nearer to the house to question a man in the von Montfort livery, and the reply now led him to move on towards the convent. [10]
How often she had described such an end to her pupil as the fairest reward for the sacrifices in which convent life was so rich! [10]
Nilus, the treasurer, had come with her to deliver a message to Paula; but he had gone first to the convent. [10]
At last they had besought her to go with them to the Convent, by reason that the men-at-arms of Lichtenau had yesternight gone forth to meet the thieves, and by this time peradventure had caught them and found the letter on them. [10]
It has its Greek Convent, and the coffee there is good, but never a splinter of the true cross or bone of a hallowed saint to arrest the idle thoughts of worldlings and turn them into graver channels. [5]
We entered the great Latin Convent which is built over the traditional dwelling-place of the Holy Family. [5]
Had she obediently gone to the convent, he might have spared himself and her the sorrow of holding her so rigidly aloof from his person. [10]
Whether this were going to the Convent or no the drunken churl should tell, and a stream of cold November-water ere long brought him to his wits. [10]
Sooner will I go into a convent, or drown myself in the Nile!--And I will say all this to my mother, this very day. [10]
When, to her further questions, Orion replied that he was going first to the Delta, she expressed her regret, since, if he had gone to Upper Egypt, he might have visited his sister-in-law, Mary's mother, in her convent. [10]
But when I found that a certain demoiselle had left the convent, I was no longer anxious to climb them. [9]
From the day following the burning of the convent the countess had given up her whim of winning Heinz Schorlin. [10]
If she was dragged to a convent by force, she would refuse, at the ceremony of profession, to become a nun. [10]
It would be doing Lienhard a favour, she repeated to herself, if she should enter a convent, and she would rather have sought shelter in a lion's den than under the Peutinger roof. [10]
She had been detained too long at the convent. [10]

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