tutoress

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs. Phoebe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instruction I was affectionately recommended.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John

Of course it was the lot of the hapless tutoress to select such a moment as this in which to sweetly chide the girl for some lapse of form.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

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

From The Coming of Cuculain by O'Grady, Standish

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

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