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And the nuns of St. Helen's did not, as has already been seen, think much of an uncloistered sister.

From Two Penniless Princesses by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

She is the head of the sisters,' said the Prioress; 'but we have few dealings with uncloistered sisters.'

From Two Penniless Princesses by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The uncloistered life is holy too, and oft Through changeful years in soft succession links Those three fair types of woman; holds, diffused, That excellence severe which life detached Sustains in concentration.'

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

In her horror at the discovery of the foulness of the sin, she vows herself to the life of an uncloistered nun.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

The better class of these female mendicants soon formed themselves into uncloistered charitable Orders, who were not forbidden to marry, and who devoted themselves chiefly to the care of the sick.

From Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages by Inge, William Ralph