 | Knights of Malta, Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1858 - 330 pages
...them, and having obtained from them a promise of implicit obedience to her maternal commands, she "' took a razor, and with it cut off her nose, together...herself a horrible spectacle to those who stood by. 1',lled with admiration at this heroic deed, the whole community followed her example, and each did... | |
 | Charles Eyre (Abp. of Glasgow) - 1887 - 426 pages
...spirit, affording to all the sisters an example of chastity profitable not only to themselves, but worthy to be embraced by all succeeding virgins for ever,...with admiration at this admirable deed, the whole community followed her maternal example, and each did the like to themselves. When this was done, together... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1891 - 322 pages
...example of chastity profitable only to themselves, but to be embraced by all succeeding virgins forever, took a razor and with it cut off her nose, together...was done, together with the morrow's dawn came those cruel tyrants, to disgrace the holy women devoted to God, and to pillage and burn the Monastery; but... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1892 - 332 pages
...themselves, but to be embraced by all succeeding virgins forever, took a razor and with it cut oft" her nose, together with her upper lip unto the teeth,...was done, together with the morrow's dawn came those cruel tyrants, to disgrace the holy women devoted to God, and to pillage and burn the Monastery; but... | |
 | Anne Clark Bartlett - 1995 - 236 pages
...of chastity profitable not only to themselves, but to be embraced by all succeeding virgins forever, took a razor, and with it, cut off her nose, together...the whole assembly followed her maternal example. 14 For "heroic" displays such as this, medieval women were often rewarded with the highest patristic... | |
 | Corinne J. Saunders - 2001 - 364 pages
...succeeding virgins for ever, took a razor, and with it cut off her nose, together with her upper lip up unto the teeth, presenting herself a horrible spectacle...example, and severally did the like to themselves. (I, 191-92) Notably, the realism of the chronicle form, by contrast to hagiographic convention, means... | |
 | Corinne J. Saunders, Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux, Neil Thomas - 2004 - 254 pages
...succeeding virgins for ever, took a razor, and with it cut off her nose, together with her upper lip up unto the teeth, presenting herself a horrible spectacle...her maternal example, and severally did the like to themselves.19 Although the convent is burnt, the nuns succeed in protecting their virginity by, in... | |
 | Liz Wilson - 1996 - 284 pages
...example of chastity profitable only to themselves, but to be embraced by all succeeding virgins forever, took a razor, and with it cut off her nose, together...whole assembly followed her maternal example, and several did the like to themselves. When this was done, together with the morrow's dawn came those... | |
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The whole assembly of virgins having promised implicit compliance with her maternal commands, the abbess, with an heroic spirit, affording to all the holy sisters an example of chastity profitable only to themselves, but to be embraced by all succeeding... 