Convent

(noun.) a religious residence especially for nuns.

(noun.) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together.

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• They thought much more of alighting at the convent door, and warming themselves at the convent fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There went a tradition that Madame Beck's house had in old days been a convent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Heloise entered a convent and gave good-bye to the world and its pleasures for all time. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In his seat he had nothing of the awkwardness of the convent, but displayed the easy and habitual grace of a well-trained horseman. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I have composed many a homily on her back, to the edification of my brethren of the convent, and many poor Christian souls. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The sisters in the convent used to tell me of a day of judgment, when everything is coming to light;--won't there be vengeance, then! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Have you then convents, to one of which you mean to retire? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The castles, churches and convents of the middle ages had their often highly ornamental locks and their warders to guard and open them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Among them are manuscripts from the archives of nearly two thousand families, monasteries and convents. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Catholic Convents are a priceless blessing to the poor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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