Mother Superior

Word MOTHER SUPERIOR
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Isaiah Sibanda, director of Zimbabwe's school's examination council, confirmed to The Herald newspaper he notified the principal and mother-superior of Harare's Dominican Convent High ❋ Unknown (1996)

The mother-superior who was listening to her confession on the other side of the booth asked her if she masturbated. ❋ Renault, Mary (1981)

It was not till two days after the departure of Mademoiselle Dravikine from the institute that the packet and the letter from Moscow had been placed in the hands of the mother-superior. ❋ Margaret Horton Potter (N/A)

When this was over the mother-superior led the novice, now Sister Maria Colomba, to a small table on which lay ❋ Various (N/A)

Franciscan Sisters came to this Kolawao Home, 15 May, 1890, and the mother-superior visited it occasionally. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Under the mother-general there are mother-superiors, one to each estate, administering and governing it, but under this mother-superior at Paris. ❋ Various (1904)

She assumed the conventual habit, and opened a convent school on July 30, 1809, in Emmetsburg, of which she became mother-superior. ❋ Various (1904)

When worldly mammas, essentially of the second empire, who perhaps had doubts respecting a purely conventional education, made inquiries on this subject, the mother-superior, feeling very wicked and worldly, usually made mention of the mathematical mistress, Denise Lange, daughter of the great and good general who was killed at Solferino. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

And the mother-superior, being a sensible woman, agreed to engage a certain number of teachers from the outer world. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

It would seem, however, that there is a point where even a mother-superior must come down, as it were, into the market-place and meet the world. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

"What can you teach?" asked the soft-eyed mother-superior. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

That point is where the convent purse rattles thinly and the mother-superior must face hunger. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

Vague reports from police officers, to the effect that something unusual in the nature of secret societies was going on among the people, began to reach the government, but no great attention was paid to them, until the evening of August nineteenth, when the parish priest of Tondo was informed by the mother-superior of one of the convent-schools that she had just learned of a plot to massacre all the Spaniards. ❋ Jos�� Rizal (1878)

The mother-superior, a kindly old woman, evidently belonging to the working class, bustled about and shook hands with each of her guests. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)

After prolonged searching Montriveau found her, and, in the presence of the mother-superior, had a conversation with her as she stood behind the grating. ❋ Anatole Cerfberr (1865)

The mother-superior took the votaress at her word, and left her then and there. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

"Stop!" exclaimed the mother-superior, suddenly raising her hand. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

While she stood there, gazing through the choir-screen upon the spot whence the stranger had disappeared, her bosom, torn by these conflicting passions of horror, pity, love, she felt a soft touch on her shoulder, and turning, saw the mother-superior at her side. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

On the next day after the arrival of the infant, it happened that the mother-superior brought Salome there on her first visit, when the misery of the motherless and forsaken infant so moved the sympathies of the young lady that she immediately took it to her own bosom. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

The abbess led her protegee down a long passage and deep flights of stairs to the refectory, where, at each side of a very long table, running down the length of the room, stood about fifty nuns waiting for their mother-superior. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

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