Sentence examples for being a governess from inspiring English sources
Wollstonecraft next tried her hand at being a governess, but she chafed at her lowly position and refused to accommodate herself to her employers.
This is a very well-drawn, very softly-pornographic steampunk fantasy comic about a big-titted blonde lady who takes a job being a governess for a boy-inventor who makes a lot of steampunky inventions.
This is a very well-drawn, very softly pornographic, steampunk fantasy comic about a big-titted blond lady who takes a job being a governess for a boy-inventor, who makes a lot of steampunky inventions.
The daughter of an impoverished Austrian field marshal, she was a governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873.
His mother, who came from Ireland, was a governess to the children of John E. Roosevelt, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt.
She graduated from the Hartford Female Seminary in 1843 and for some years thereafter taught school and was a governess in Burlington, New Jersey.
Her 16-year-old daughter Meg is a governess to a wealthy family and her 15-year-old sister Jo is a companion for a rich old relative.
Clairmont was a governess for decades, but her early life with Byron, Shelley and her stepsister, Mary Shelley (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft), gets the most attention.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray It seems to be Becky Sharp's fate to be a governess: she is clever, educated and impecunious, so she takes a job in the household of Sir Pitt Crawley.
Always to be a governess and always to be in love is a serious limitation in a world which is full, after all, of people who are neither one nor the other".
