tutoress
Example Sentences
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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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 Samuel Richardson
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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
The Ultonians appointed for her a nurse and tutoress named Levarcam.
From The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
