Sentence examples for governess i from inspiring English sources

Governess: I spoke far too soon.

(But I don't say "dumped". Like a Victorian governess, I say "jilted").

Governess: I long to leave dark Bly / Yet can't condemn them both to die / And so tonight / A letter I must write.

Governess: I cannot / For the suspense must be maintained / I am on my own / As Mrs Grose is thick as shit!

(He heightens our perplexity by adding, "I want my own sort!") When Flora says to the governess, "I don't like to frighten you," is she explaining why she is universally admired for good behavior, or is she making a covert threat?

Governess: I've lost her for Good.

Governess: Is that Miss Jessel by the lake?

I did my PhD and first book on the Victorian governess because I wanted to use the figure of these excluded citizens as a way of unpicking the social, economic and political forces at play in the construction of bourgeois Victorian Britain.

Governess: Flora, I implore yer / Ignore her / She wants to possess / You-u.

There is also a fair helping of Jane Eyre, a novel which Sugar has long dismissed as having little to do with the real lives of governesses ("Reader, I married him" is not a phrase she expects to utter any time soon).

Foreboding governess no longer, I take off my socks and enjoy a moment of sweet freedom from the cold, forgetting the sartorial battle ahead.