tutoress

Example Sentences

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The Ultonians appointed for her a nurse and tutoress named Levarcam.

From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish

And there he found his three little sisters, and that you was their tutoress, and they couldn't say enough about you, nor the poor gentleman neither.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Pa and Ma and Allie Briskow and the tutoress have gone to the mountains—Ma's beloved mountains—and they appear to be living up to her expectations.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood