How To Use Governess 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.
I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
He remembers his first governess, Miss Arkell, a grey-haired lady with traces of beard upon her large flat face and a black dress of what he calls bombasine.

But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
But Canada's nanny is not just the caring nurse; she's also a strict governess.
He finally abandoned academic qualifications and appointed a collection of pharmacists, country doctors, schoolteachers, and governesses.
Born in London, taught by governesses, she combined her early love of drawing with a keen interest in natural history, copying flowers and drawing small animals kept as pets or found on summer holidays in Scotland and the Lakes.
He does not like the new governess by a fraction.
He did not even speak to her, but spoke to the governess of the Royal nursery and the schoolmaster and the servants who had come through the day, asking them about William's health and what he had eaten.
Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be. The Hand of Ethelberta
Then aged 34, and an accomplished actor on stage and screen, Plummer had been underwhelmed by the part of Captain von Trapp, the Austrian single-parent who employs an outspoken former nun called Maria as governess to his seven children. The Sound of Music cast reunite
I guess the characters of the governess, the seemingly haughty and icy employer and the mad woman added to that impression.
I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
When the two had been introduced, Miss Davenport concealed a sneer with difficulty, Clarissa could see, and the governess was hard-pressed to stop her cheeks from flushing.
Bronte's limited world was one of moorland and governesses, big houses and class strictures, but Boylan goes further, uncovering the underbelly of Victorian society with retrospective omniscience.
That was why the father, arriving from Berlin, had on his own initiative brought them an English governess; for the English are admitted by their continental friends to excel in this special branch of manners, while their continental enemies charge them with being "ostentatiously" well groomed and dainty. Home Life in Germany
Miss Bertha Bowlong, who was governess to the KAISER in the late "sixties," is shortly about to publish her reminiscences of her now all-too-notorious pupil. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916
A large part of his limited production is a celebration, in her many guises, of the industrious bourgeois mother: as mentor, minister, governess, purveyor, nurse, needlewoman and handmaid to her children.
The other person in constant attendance was Fräulein Lehzen, brought over as governess and companion from Hanover when the princess was 6 months old.
Up to the age of ten he was taught at home by a governess and then he entered the local gymnasium.
By the age of twenty-four she was free to seek work outside the home, finding temporary positions as amanuensis and governess.
When I was last here I had spent time talking with Dalim Das, once a governess with a wealthy family.
A majorette is a mere twirler of batons (certainly not a major activity), and a governess governs only the romper room. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
Thomas gives warning because his master has given up reading prayers, and he can't bemean himself by "sayin '` Amen' to a governess. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
A governess asks him to find out who has been sending her priceless gifts. The Sun
Becky, working as a governess, resorts to her good looks and alluring personality to move up in society.
In this highly heated state our governess was, of course, sensitive to the smallest inlet of cooler air, and "draughts" were accordingly her abhorrence. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
Another day Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grassplot to divert myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Her eyes were soft and calm; her hands were folded on her black silk dress, her pretty little tender-looking hands, unringed, for she was still Miss Williams, still a governess. The Laurel Bush
I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
From the age of four, when he was taught to write by his governess, he kept a diary.
Passed over for the movie role, she played ‘Mary Poppins’ and parlayed the part of that bouncy governess into tonight's triumph.
But this elegant girl, educated by governesses and teachers, was a stranger to them; they could not understand her, and they instinctively kept closer to "Auntie," who called them by their names, continually pressed them to eat and drink, and, clinking glasses with them, had already drunk two wineglasses of rowanberry wine with them. The Party
But I am afraid grandmamma did not think that we were learning quite enough, for one day she called Lottie and me, and told us that she had just seen such a nice young lady, and that she had promised to come and be our governess. My Young Days
But Wood does not give value for lullabying us: a critic is not a governess. IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE
Ralph's early education was handled at home by a governess.
I ought to say that we have a big Bernese governess, who looks like Luther in his more corpulent days, and, knowing more Italian than we do, has been quite useful as interpretess. William James
After having lost another job - as a kitchen maid (I could be nothing as grand as a governess - not an adulteress like me!)
And the great story of this is this little shy governess who isn't all that attractive really but she gets the handsome man, she gets Rochester.
Born in Limerick in 1930, he was one of eight children of a wealthy flour-miller and was brought up surrounded by servants and governesses.
Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
She was taught by strict governesses in a room with barred windows on the third floor of her home.
The brothers' education was amplified by long summer holidays of reading and by French and English governesses.
Other themed rooms include the Chinese Room, the Governess Suite and the Green Room.
But she denies that she's being governessy. Times, Sunday Times
From the age of four, when he was taught to write by his governess, he kept a diary.
I had governesses that taught me what I wanted to learn.
But look down that vista of charity children in slate coloured Quaker bonnets, stuck one against the other in drab, like pins in a paper, but not so bright; are they going to stand there for ever, with their governess at their head, looking as smug and fubsy as the squat house at the end? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
Livia, besides endless keepers of her robes and folders of her clothes -- a special office -- and hairdressers, perfumers, jewellers and shoe keepers, had a special adorner of her ears, a keeper of her chair and a governess for her favourite lap-dog. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
Our Governess is as active and watchful as ever, down with the Sun and up with the Lark, and then doth her messenger summon us to desert our beds, if she perceives any unwilling, she subtilly tempers the unpleasantness of her early importunity; she perswades them thereunto, by alledging, what benefit thereby will accrew to their healths; nor is her accustomed care to be discommended, since therein she aims not only at the benefit of our Bodies, but the eternal welfare of our Souls in the performance of our duties to God and our Parents. The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex
Jane admits ‘to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society and been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and latterly, companion’.
Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
The Miss Mutlows sat stiffly down on a form, one on each side of her governess, and all three stared solemnly at the boys, who began to blush vividly under the inspection, to unbutton and rebutton their gloves with great care, and to shift from leg to leg in an embarrassed manner. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
Mr. Fassbender's lord of the cursed manor is worthy of his governess's love, even though he's no match for the one played by Timothy Dalton when it comes to bottomless despair or towering rage, and though he can't, or wisely won't, touch the doomy self-regard that Orson Welles brought to the role. See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre'
High necklines and long sleeves (especially both at once) can look too governessy. Times, Sunday Times
Elizabeth was brought up in the care of governesses and tutors at Hatfield House and spent her days studying Greek and Latin with the Cambridge scholar, Roger Ascham.
Many young women reading Austen in her own lifetime would have become governesses, teaching the children of the rich.
What do you know about botany?" said Edwin, sharply and rather irrelevantly as it seemed, till I remembered how he plumed himself upon knowledge of this science, and how he had persisted in taking Maud, and her governess also, long wintry walks across the country, "in order to study the cryptogamia. John Halifax, Gentleman
Having been governess to Princess Elizabeth from an early age until her engagement to Prince Philip, she left the royal household and wrote a book about her experiences.
But as her definite acquirements were few, she had to eke them out by employing her leisure time in needlework; and altogether her position was that of "bonne" or nursery governess, liable to repeated and never-ending calls upon her time. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
In her literature, however, she has got that instructing, governessy tone which is almost hard to bear.
For single middle-class women without dowries there was only the prospect of becoming a governess or companion.
She was educated at home in Torquay, by governesses and by her mother.
The whole top floor was turned into a nursery which she shared with her sister Margaret Rose, and both were educated privately here by governesses.
A flare of anger rose in the governess' chest.
Only a poor minister, he knew his daughters would likely have to work as teachers or governesses, and their education would be indispensable.
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
In a rush, she said, "My mother was a member of the minor gentry, a parson 's daughter who worked in a great house as the governess. MY FAVORITE BRIDE
To the French she seemed a governessy figure such as they label "the English Miss".
Wollstonecraft spent part of her short life as a teacher and then as a governess to the daughters of an aristocratic family, whose sons, as was usual for boys, went to boarding school.
Rather than directly answering her questions, however, he almost maddens his listener by insisting upon telling Jane her own story, the story of the governess who left.
She justified her request that Lady Tyrwitt be replaced as her governess "bicause ... the people wil say that I deserved throwgh my lewde demenure" to have a new governess. 133 In this same letter, she thanked Somerset for authorizing the Privy Council to issue orders that the "ivel reportes" about her be quelled. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The child's puppet dolls are miniatures of herself and Miss Jessel, dangled menacingly over the canopy of the big four-poster bed where the virginal new governess endures her fevered nightmares. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
The Governess sings throughout her exacting part with skill and understanding.
Becky, working as a governess, resorts to her good looks and alluring personality to move up in society.
To tell you the truth when I was working as a governess I never would have imagined that I'd have sat in a chophouse drinking beer!
You are very fit for a wife, but not at all for a governess.
Such was Stephen Thorle, a governess in the nursery of Chelsea-bred religions, a skilled window-dresser in the emporium of his own personality, and needless to say, evanescently popular amid a wide but shifting circle of acquaintances. The Unbearable Bassington
She was scrupulously kind to her, and the governess was scrupulously exact in all courtesy and attention; still that impassible, self-contained demeanor, that great reticence – it might be shyness, it might be pride, – sometimes, Ursula privately admitted, "fidgeted" her. John Halifax, Gentleman
Edith will be as a parlour boarder with the Miss Cottles (his sisters) two women of elegant & accomplishd manners. the eldest lived as governess in Ld Derbys [3] family xxx a little while — & you will have some opinion of them when I say, that they make even bigotry amiable. they are very religious, & the eldest (who is but t twenty three) wished me to read good books — the advice came from the heart — she thinks very highly of me, but fancies me irreligious because I frequent no place of worship & indulge speculations beyond reason. Letter 142
It was not unheard of for women of that time to work as nurses, teachers, governesses etc but my mother preferred to stay at home and take care of my three brothers and I.
In exasperation, Anne marched over and grabbed him in her firmest governessy hold.
‘Whom did I see but the whilom nursery governess sitting on a chair in one of these gardens’, meaning that the lady had once been a governess, but was one no longer.
Bright was educated at a mix of local schools and by a governess. Times, Sunday Times
Miles addresses his governess as ‘my dear’ and treats her with the gallant manner of a beau, not a child.
These he mixed with reproductions of old group portraits, of militias and the governors and governesses of charitable institutions.
When Miss Temple marries, Jane feels the necessity of trying something new and advertises for a position as a governess.
Although father had employed governesses and nannies for our care during the time he was away, Olga took the most care of us.
A single glance told her that their recent conversation had been more than usually interesting; nor could I help seeing it myself -- the face of the governess being red, or in that condition which, were she aught but a governess, would be called suffused with blushes. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
Classic gothic tale complete with governess heroine, malevolent atmosphere, and forbidding mansion.
It took her governess and maid about half an hour to lace her into them.
For single middle-class women without dowries there was only the prospect of becoming a governess or companion.
By these she was adored, and loved like a mother almost, for as such the hearty kindly girl showed herself to them; but at home she was alone, farouche and intractable, and did battle with the governesses, and overcame them one after another. The Newcomes
Alban turned to face the taunting eyes of the old governess feeling both rage and shame rise in his bosom.
At noon, she was permitted time to eat a small meal before her governess would begin the afternoon lessons by lecture.
What do you know about botany?" said Edwin, sharply and rather irrelevantly as it seemed, till I remembered how he plumed himself upon his knowledge of this science, and how he had persisted in taking Maud, and her governess also, long wintry walks across the country, "in order to study the cryptogamia. John Halifax, Gentleman
Then among the ladies there were a half-score of dubious pale governesses and professionals with turned frocks and lank damp bandeaux of hair under shabby little bonnets; luckless creatures these, who were parting with their poor little store of half-guineas to be enabled to say they were pupils of Signor Mens Wives
He rolled back and fell into the protective arms of his governess, finally at peace.
In 1921 the family returned to Poland and Mark was taught by a French governess.
The wealthy paid governesses to educate their daughters at home.
Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant.
Jessica, armed with certificates of examinational prowess, got work as a visiting governess. In the Year of Jubilee
She was educated by governesses and spent a brief period at a boarding school.
Sometimes a governess would be employed to supervise the correspondence lessons and teach additional lessons.
Near her sat the governesses, English, French and German, with little Janetta bringing up the rear in the draughtiest place and the most uncomfortable chair. A True Friend A Novel
As we rattled in a sort of governess-cart, called sado, up the broad, palm-lined avenue which leads from Boeleleng to Singaradja, the seat of government, three miles away, I caught fleeting glimpses of natives peering at me furtively over the mud walls which surround their kampongs, but the instant they saw that they were observed they disappeared from view. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
I was, after all, a stranger, and well-bred ex-governesses did not discuss their ailments in public.
An orphan, Doris was brought up in the respectable home of well-to-do foster parents, and was educated by a governess.
While literacy is associated with inherent gentility in a colonial space where social standards are in flux, literacy does not have the same currency for the governess back home in Britain.
By the age of twenty-four she was free to seek work outside the home, finding temporary positions as amanuensis and governess.
For single middle-class women without dowries there was only the prospect of becoming a governess or companion.
I learned there that having the governess as part of the family was not a normal Letzenstein custom.
There were many flats in the great city, so polished and carved and burnished and be-lackeyed that children were not allowed to enter within the portals, save on visits of ceremony in charge of parents or governesses. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
Becky, working as a governess, resorts to her good looks and alluring personality to move up in society.
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
As a child and adolescent, Edith was educated at home by governesses.
But while the Queen had to act properly, it was Fleming who spoke of improper things, made crude jokes, and cheeked the governesses and tutors.
Her last spell of living with her husband ended when she sought work as a governess in London.

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