In process of time this religious house again fell into desuetude; but before it disappeared it had achieved a great name for good works, and in especial for the piety of its members.

The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context

I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle--a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested.

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When the Black Knight---for it becomes necessary to resume the train of his adventures---left the Trysting-tree of the generous Outlaw, he held his way straight to a neighbouring religious house, of small extent and revenue, called the Priory of Saint Botolph, to which the wounded Ivanhoe had been removed when the castle was taken, under the guidance of the faithful Gurth, and the magnanimous Wamba.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Sir Walter View in context

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