"Bernardine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the least irrational of them all. They were not wholly idle, but found some little employment in the bringing up of young girls. The Catholic reaction which, aiming at a higher flight of ecstasy than was possible at that time even in Spain, had foolishly built a number of convents, Carmelite, Bernardine, and Capuchin, soon found itself at the end of its motive-powers. The girls of whom people got rid by shutting them up so strictly therein, died off immediately, and their swift decease led to frightful statements of the cruelty shown by their ...
— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet
... the Duke of Wharton's death I had from a very good hand—Captain Willoughby; who, in the convent where the duke died, saw a picture of him in the habit. If it was a Bernardine convent, the Gentleman might confound them; but, considering that there is no life of the duke but bookseller's trash, it is much more likely that ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... the hospital, Bernardine," whined the man in a low tone. "That will be the last of me if I ever have ...
— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey |
