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"But I was schoolmistress for the little children in our district last summer, and might have been so still."
To earn a living she took the job of schoolmistress.
"I wondered whether she'd made up her mind about accepting the position of schoolmistress?"
Everybody thinks them a trouble, and they have to do what their schoolmistress likes.
"He must be something remarkable to have turned you into a schoolmistress!
Having said this, he made his parting bow to the schoolmistress.
A later schoolmistress in 1870 lived at the school.
I've never seen anybody laugh as my schoolmistress laughed when I said that.
The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.
Once upon a time - oh, years and years ago!- she had been a schoolmistress.
She is, I believe, a retired schoolmistress, a very well known one."
Once he gave me a demonstration of my walk; he said I walked like a schoolmistress.
A good schoolmistress never shows alarm before her pupils.
She looked every inch the stern and demanding schoolmistress.
In any case, the schoolmistress left Canterbury, defeated but unbowed.
Something very silly about Caleb and the schoolmistress, I think.
She was a schoolmistress by profession and published a number of novels between 1959 and 1977.
"But sir", she replies in a schoolmistress voice, "this is reality."
She ignored the simple gown, which was perfectly in keeping with a schoolmistress of modest means.
Perhaps some schoolmistress is responsible or perhaps the antique earth simply consumed them whole.
"I've found a qualified candidate for the position of schoolmistress, pending your approval.
She works as a schoolmistress in a village near Tor-upon-Sea.
Frances sighed, shaking her head like a schoolmistress with a class of wayward children.
"Didn't some elderly schoolmistress ever tell you in your youth that patience is a virtue?"
After three days, the schoolmistress in charge phoned.