Word: abbesses
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...last week plastering the walls of their new convent at Limon, near Paris. As they worked, a nun in full habit picked her way through the chaos of scaffolding, pipes and plaster, and the others turned to look at her with sharp interest. Even the Mère Abbesse showed special respect. The abbess pointed to the outline of a Gothic window above a freshly mortared chapel wall: "And there, Mère Geneviève, we shall need three large windows...
...about the tombs finally got the better of him. One night while the nuns were safely asleep, Garcia pried open one of the coffins with a heavy metal hook. After fishing around patiently, he pulled out a fragment of gold brocade. Then, afraid of a sound scolding from the abbess, he hid his find, kept his secret to himself. Finally Garcia confided in Archeologist José Luis Monteverde, curator of national property. Monteverde communicated with Madrid and a joint committee of medieval experts, headed by 80-year-old Gomez Moreno, eventually succeeded in getting the nuns' permission to open...
...R.A.F. pilot was shot down in Occupied France, taken in by a friendly abbess and dressed as a nun. After eight weeks playing the part of a model sister, he suddenly swept a beautiful young nun into his arms. " 'Old yer 'orses, carn't yer?" barked the nun. "I been 'ere since Dunkerque...
...Throne, she got into very hot water; one of her lovers, the Abbe Fouquet, betrayed her attempt as part of a conspiracy against the Throne. Most fantastic scene in the book is her midnight rendezvous with the swishy little Prince, she dressed in the robes of an Abbess, he in a white frock. When the Prince stops patting her cheek to offer her candy, she realizes her mistake...
...about the array of sporting books, which date neatly from 1340 to 1940, points out that many a lustrous treatise on hawking, angling, hunting was written in the shadow of the Church. The first printed English sporting book, the Book of St. Albans, was written presumably by an abbess. "The greatest hunting manuscript in existence." the brilliantly illuminated 15th-Century Le Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, observes: "There is no man's life less displeasurable to God than the life of a perfect, skillful hunter. . . . Hunting causeth a man to eschew the seven deadly sins...