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Leugart was for thirty years either the subprioress or the prioress. back
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Unwilling to enter till the children were dismissed he remained here till young voices could be heard in the open air, and girls in white pinafores over red and blue frocks appeared dancing along the paths which the abbess, prioress, subprioress, and fifty nuns had demurely paced three centuries earlier.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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Unwilling to enter till the children were dismissed he remained here till young voices could be heard in the open air, and girls in white pinafores over red and blue frocks appeared dancing along the paths which the abbess, prioress, subprioress, and fifty nuns had demurely paced three centuries earlier.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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Andrea Verchuck, a subprioress at the monastery, said all prioress at the monastery, said all three nuns live in
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