The dark-veiled silhouette . . . that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential.
Source: On a nun working in a psychiatric ward, The Nun's Story, Little, Brown 56
-- Kathryn Hulme, (Jan 6 1900-1981), US writer; She is best known for writing the best-selling biography The Nun's Story, 1957.