Stift

And there is one more video, "The Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz":

Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008

And as I was writing, we reached the vicinity of Melk, where, perched over a bend in the river, the handsome Stift stands to this day, after several restorations during the course of the centuries.

The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980

The outgrowth of this true impulse of the Queen's was the establishment of the 'Victoria Stift' at Coburg, whereby sums of money are applied in apprenticing worthy young men or in purchasing tools for them, and in giving dowries to deserving young women or otherwise settling them in life.

Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

[Footnote: Dwelling of the civil governor of a Stift or diocese.] "Well, can't you tell me what it is, then?"

Hunger Knut Hamsun 1905

The outgrowth of this true impulse of the Queen's was the establishment of the 'Victoria Stift' at Coburg, whereby sums of money are applied in apprenticing worthy young men or in purchasing tools for them, and in giving dowries to deserving young women or otherwise settling them in life.

Queen Victoria Anonymous 1901

If she is poor and misses her chance she is worse off than the German, for she has no _Stift_ provided for her; but if she is attractive she is just as likely to marry without a fortune as with one.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

A girl who had spent some years at a well-known Protestant _Stift_ described her school life to me as minutely as possible, and it sounded so like the life in a good English boarding-school thirty years ago that it is difficult to pick out points of differences.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

In many there is a presiding lady, the Domina or Abbess; and when the present Emperor visited a well-known _Stift_ lately he gave the Abbess a shepherd's crook with which to rule her flock.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

The _Stift_ gives a woman bread and shelter in idleness; the aim of the Lyceum Club is not to give, but to bring women together and to encourage good work.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

You come across girls of gentle birth but with no means who have been brought up in a _Stift_, or you hear of well-to-do girls whose parents have paid high for their schooling in one.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894