taskmistress

I imagine she was a hard taskmaster, or should that be taskmistress?

The truth is a very stern taskmistress, and I can't adhere to it.

Min's leap to obey would have satisfied the hardest taskmistress.

She was a stern and difficult taskmistress, with little patience or sympathy for the failings of others.

My God, you are a hard taskmistress.

She wondered how the woman enjoyed poverty, and working on a farm for a taskmistress even harsher than herself.

Marelie is a hard taskmistress and will brook no disobedience.

A strict taskmistress who never played favorites.

Her eyes, while looking at Mohiam, did not see her taskmistress and mentor.

The centaur was a harsh taskmistress -which was of course why she had been given the job.

Then she took a deep breath and, with the attitude of a stern taskmistress, shook a bony finger at Kat.

The White Tower was a strict taskmistress.

It was a hard taskmistress just like Belle Morte.

But she was an implacable taskmistress, expecting no less than total dedication, for that was what she herself gave to the job.

"A strict taskmistress, she can teach."

There was nothing childlike about Theretha when it came to business, however, and she was an exacting taskmistress.

Ceri was a hard taskmistress, but she wouldn't stay angry because I was slow on the uptake.

Over and over she drilled us, a relentless taskmistress, until all of us could name and recite them by rote.

Siuan had always been a leather-faced taskmistress, and leather-hearted as well, not this pretty, creamy-cheeked woman with an almost delicate mouth.

Here she was stripped down again, after the sober antiwar and women's movement years: a demanding video taskmistress and self-confessed former bulimic in form-fitting leotards.

Tina Brown reminds him of his high school English teacher, "a comely, decorous and demanding taskmistress who was often at the center of my teenage erotic fantasies."

However, Tina doesn't like the resulting 10,000-word article; he begs for another chance, and offers to make it much shorter; finally she kills it - and the excruciating correspondence between Talese and his comely, demanding editorial taskmistress is reprinted in full.

As the pianist Gary Graffman so vividly put it, "Nadia, who over the years infected whole regiments of young pianists with her contagious vitality, her joy of discovery, her sheer love of music, was, as a teacher, a strict taskmistress in her own fashion.

His unsmiling mother, Ahma (Jade Wu), who runs a motor inn largely patronized by couples who pay by the hour, is a grim taskmistress who expects her son to keep the place spotless and to mop up the messes left over from the quickies he hears through the walls.