10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOISTRESS»
Discover the use of
cloistress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cloistress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Cloistress. “Have a seat! " I said, pulling a chair out for her. I was so cynical about
what I was going to end up thinking of her that my expectations seemed to sink to
unnaturally low levels, which she effortlessly exceeded. “Awww. Thanks, baby!
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The Quarterly journal of education and scholastic advertiser
The solution appears to be this : putting cloister, by metonymy, for monk, he has
coined the word cloistress from it, which means nun, thus : masculine, cloister,
feminine, cloistress. So we have masculine, abbot, feminine, abbess ; masculine,
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Shall not behold her face at ample view, But like a cloistress she will veile`d walk,
30 And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine — all this
to season A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh And lasting in her ...
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen,
2010
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Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare
The impression of a secondary ritual is conveyed when the picture of the intra-
mural perambulations of the 'cloistress' is fleshed out by the information that this
particular novice has in her make-up more than a little of the Madonna lacrimosa
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Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson,
2003
... her face at ample view, But like a cloistress she will veiled walk And water once
a day her chamber round With eye—offending brine—all this to season A
brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh And lasting in her sad
remembrance.
Hester Lees-Jeffries,
2013
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The Traveling Adventures of the Robin and the Fox Around the ...
VALENTINE 26 So please my lord, I might not be admitted; 27 But from her
handmaid do return this answer: 28 The element itself, till seven years' heat, 29
Shall not behold her face at ample view; 30 But, like a cloistress, she will veiled
walk ...
Donald J. Richardson,
2013
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Twelfth Night: Third Series
VALENTINE So please my lord, I might not be admitted, But from her handmaid
do return this answer: The element itself till seven years' heat 25 Shall not behold
her face at ample view, But like a cloistress she will veiled walk And water once ...
William Shakespeare, Keir Elam,
2008
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Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
So please my lord, I might not be admitted; But from her handmaid do return this
answer: The element' itself, till seven years' heat, Shall not behold her face at
ample view; But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk And water once a day her ...
William Shakespeare,
2012
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The vision of Rubeta: an epic story of the island of ...
The cloistress said, and bore her sick along. is The rest, behind me, to the cellar
throng. 'T was a strange place, with various lumber spread : Here stood a pump ;
there lean'd a truckle-bed ; Consumptive trestles rest upon their side, Two legs ...
How now, what news from her? VALENT. So please my lord, I might not be
admitted, But from her handmaid do return this answer: The element itself, till
seven years hence,5 Shall not behold her face at ample view; But like a cloistress
she will ...
William Shakespeare,
1992