sub-chantress

The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket-holes — was ill all the night.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket - holes — was ill all the night.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Quedlingberg, the prioress, the deaness, and sub-chantress, for sending at noon-day for the trumpeter’s wife: she went through the streets of Strasburg with her husband’s trumpet in her hand, — the best apparatus the straitness of the time would allow her, for the illustration of her theory — she staid no longer than three days.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Quedlingberg, the prioress, the deaness, and sub-chantress, for sending at noon-day for the trumpeter’s wife: she went through the streets of Strasburg with her husband’s trumpet in her hand, — the best apparatus the straitness of the time would allow her, for the illustration of her theory — she staid no longer than three days.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003