tutoress
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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 John Cleland
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 Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport
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
The tutoress of the Princess Rosanie pursues her task, and pursues it triumphantly, by dividing the child into twelve interim personalities, each of whom has a special characteristic—beauty, gentleness, vivacity, discretion, and what not.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
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