Sentence examples for governess with from inspiring English sources

All the evidence points to one suspect: the governess, with whom the husband had been flirting.

In 19th-century London, a governess with something to hide falls in love with the dashing widower for whom she works.

At the same time Charlotte's ambition to make the practical best of her talents and the need to pay Branwell's debts urged her to spend some months as governess with the Whites at Upperwood House, Rawdon.

His first wife had given him 10 children, but when she died in 1852, he had married a year later the governess with whom he had been having an affair.

The novel owes a clear debt to The Turn of the Screw – the lonely house, the isolated governess with her charges, the name Flora – but there's little of the supernatural here.

The girl has seen off several prospective governesses with her out-of-control behaviour, but then a governess (Penelope Wilton) with a mysterious past arrives and turnes the household upside down.

These include the idealistic Trofimov (Chris Messina), the passionate, ungainly student in love with Ranyevskaya's beautiful daughter (Jessica Chastain); Carlotta, the flamboyantly eccentric governess played with dry understatement by Brenda Wehle; and the narcoleptic landowner given such astutely obtuse life by Lee Wilkof.

The New Yorker, April 14 , 1945P. 15 A Naval officer station in Palm Beach happend to be passing one of the old houses that date back to the days when Palm Beach was Palm Beach, just as a governess emerged with a little boy.

Dermide had his own carriage, drawn by six horses, which he shared with his governess, Madame Ducluzel, and with his mother's lectrice (reader), Jenny Saint-Maur.

High-necked blouses in starched ivory, the feminine image-in-negative of the black polo neck, were worn governess-style with ankle-length skirts at Chanel, or teamed with black leather trousers at Givenchy.

The stories were transparent riffs on what I was reading at the time: families living on prairies, orphaned girls sent off to boarding schools or educated by stern governesses, children with supernatural powers, or the ability to slip through closets into alternate worlds.