nun quotes

  So lovely fair was Hero,Venus'nun, As Nature wept, thinking she was undone.

- Christopher Marlowe
  Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.45^6.

And besides, Mrs Forthby in the flesh was a different kettle of fish to Mrs Forthby in his fantasies. In the latter she had a multitude of perverse inclinations, which corresponded exactly with his own unfortunate requirements, while possessing a discretion that would have done credit to aTrappist nun. In the flesh she was disappointingly different.

-Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe
  Blott on the Landscape, ch.3.

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

-William Wordsworth
  'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1^8 (published 1807).