votaresses

Nevertheless, to render you, who seem an ingenuous youth, and your ladies, who are devout votaresses accomplishing

Quentin Durward 2008

The Lady Foljambe was succeeded in this mansion by a sour fanatic knight, a distant and collateral relation, who claimed the same merit for expelling the priestess of Baal, which his predecessor had founded on maintaining the votaresses of Heaven.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The priestesses, her votaresses, screamed and fled madly toward the exits.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar 1918

The priestesses, her votaresses, screamed and fled madly toward the exits.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

But now we find it appearing in a high state of development in Crete in the beautiful faïence reliefs of the wild-goat and kids, the vases with the wild-rose in relief on the lip, and the figurines of the Snake Goddess and her votaresses.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

The cist which was first opened was closely packed, to a depth of 1.10 metres, with vases; and below these there was a deposit of fragments and complete examples of faïence, including the figures of a Snake Goddess and her votaresses, votive robes and girdles, cups and vases with painted designs, and reliefs of cows and calves, wild goats and kids.

The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

Linette knew how to make her way far better, and it was well for them that their dark dresses and hoods and Linette's elderly face gave the idea of their being votaresses of some sacred order, and so secured them from actual personal insult; but as they clung together they were thrust aside and pushed about, while the throng grew thicker, the streets narrower, the storm heavier, the air more stifling and unsavoury.

Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The Lady Foljambe was succeeded in this mansion by a sour fanatic knight, a distant and collateral relation, who claimed the same merit for expelling the priestess of Baal, which his predecessor had founded on maintaining the votaresses of Heaven.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Yet, though Kenneth knew this to be the case, the solemnity of the place and hour, the surprise at the sudden appearance of these votaresses, and the visionary manner in which they moved past him, had such influence on his imagination that he could scarce conceive that the fair procession which he beheld was formed of creatures of this world, so much did they resemble a choir of supernatural beings, rendering homage to the universal object of adoration.

The Talisman 2008

(as in all ancient religions) frequently descends to visit his cloistered votaresses.

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899