Sentence examples for governess of from inspiring English sources
It was from the governess of one of its pupils.
But Flaubert also dallied with housemaids, actresses, artists' models, society hostesses, and the English governess of his niece, Caroline.
Zhenechka was the governess of the narrator and her sisters, on the dacha where they grew up.
A studious and bright girl, she was educated by her mother and a governess of ducal rank.
(He made an exception for music, calling it "the mistress and governess of the feelings of the human heart").
Princess Frederika of Eisenach was known for her deer-stalking skill; Maria, governess of the Netherlands, could track a stag, shoot it with a crossbow, and gut it.
It is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s.
My favorite was Hals's group portrait of the Governesses of the Oudemannenhuis, an old men's house in Hals's day.
In 1860 she moved to the small rural town of Penola to serve as governess for the children of her aunt and uncle.
His mother, who came from Ireland, was a governess to the children of John E. Roosevelt, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Following the collapse of her school, Wollstonecraft became a governess to the family of Lord Kingsborough for a brief and unsatisfactory period.
