mother-superior

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

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The mother-superior who was listening to her confession on the other side of the booth asked her if she masturbated.

The Wise Lord and the Lie 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.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

When this was over the mother-superior led the novice, now Sister Maria Colomba, to a small table on which lay

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Franciscan Sisters came to this Kolawao Home, 15 May, 1890, and the mother-superior visited it occasionally.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 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.

Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly Various 1904

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

Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly 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.

The Isle of Unrest Henry Seton Merriman 1882

And the mother-superior, being a sensible woman, agreed to engage a certain number of teachers from the outer world.

The Isle of Unrest 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.

The Isle of Unrest Henry Seton Merriman 1882