"ABB" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... name, shortened into St. Audrey, was given to a certain kind of lace, whence "tawdry"; she took refuge from the married state in the monastery of St. Abb's Head, and afterwards founded a monastery in ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Englebert, Archbishop of Treves.—Bishop Cosin (in his Hist. Trans. cap. vii. Sec.12) refers to Engelb. Archiep. Trevirensis, ap. Goldasti Imper. tom. i. In Goldast's Politica Imperialia there is a treatise by S. Engelb. Abb. Admoutens in Austria: but I find neither the author referred to, nor the treatise intended, by Cosin. According to Eisengrein, who is followed by Possivinus, there were two Engelberts; viz. Engelbertus, S. Matthiae Treverensis, Benedictinae possessionis Abbus, ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 14. Saturday, February 2, 1850 • Various |
