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

She, our famed tutoress, with kind endeavour, Bound us from that day forth with heart and hand, When met fair Elgga's tribes, that we should never In hostile ranks before each other stand.

From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

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

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

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