How To Use Schoolmistress In A Sentence
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I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
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Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
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In 1790s Gotham, most children were educated within an informal system of ‘pay schools’ presided over by independent schoolmasters and schoolmistresses.
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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
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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.
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Everyone wondered how a schoolmistress could afford such books but Anna knew that her every spare penny had gone towards their purchase.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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It was Fraülein Maria Wendel, the schoolmistress, the tenant of Schloss Langenbach.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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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.
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‘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.
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With her precise use of language and intimidating aspect, she was a typical traditional schoolmistress.
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With her precise use of language and intimidating aspect, she was a typical traditional schoolmistress.
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With her precise use of language and intimidating aspect, she was a typical traditional schoolmistress.
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With her precise use of language and intimidating aspect, she was a typical traditional schoolmistress.
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In 1836-1837, her career as a schoolmistress thwarted by ill health, she suffered a nervous breakdown.
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The schoolmistress in those days wore what was called a busk -- a flat piece of lancewood, hornbeam, or some other like tough and elastic wood, thrust into a sort of pocket or sheath in her dress, which came up almost to the chin and came down below the waist.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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Fortunately, their landlady, a retired schoolmistress, warmly welcomes and befriends them.
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Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Individual schoolmistresses and teachers in the academies and seminaries that proliferated in Alexandria during the antebellum period offered instruction in a wide range of useful and ornamental subjects.
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The daughter, nine years old, and not above forty feet high, was very good natured, became my schoolmistress, and called me Grildrig, which imports in English, mannikin.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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No master of callisthenics could have set them up better than their mother's receipt for making good blood, combined with a certain harmony of their systems, had done; nor could a schoolmistress have taught them correcter speaking.
Rhoda Fleming — Volume 1
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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.
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The necessity of replacing the monk by the schoolmaster was recognized, but not the necessity of replacing the nun by the schoolmistress; the purely physical and reproductive idea of woman being once again uppermost, the need for training her mind no longer existed.
Marriage as a Trade
