schoolmistress

How To Use schoolmistress In A Sentence

• I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
• Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him. RUSHING TO PARADISE
• To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
• In 1790s Gotham, most children were educated within an informal system of ‘pay schools’ presided over by independent schoolmasters and schoolmistresses.
• Henry, when the little girl held the geraniums up to him, observed, that the back of her hand was bruised and black; he asked her how she had hurt herself, and she replied innocently, "that she had not hurt _herself_, but that her schoolmistress was a very _strict_ woman. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
• Instead of spilling brew, ballot chads, or blood, I'll celebrate by sharing 18 lessons I've learned over the years from the harsh schoolmistress named Experience.
• Everyone wondered how a schoolmistress could afford such books but Anna knew that her every spare penny had gone towards their purchase. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
• It was Fraülein Maria Wendel, the schoolmistress, the tenant of Schloss Langenbach. IN LOVE AND WAR
• Primary schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, the instituteurs and institutrices, were liberated from the grip of the church, and in 1889 they became employees of the central state instead of the local council.
• ‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away. Cover up