Sentence examples for headmistress from inspiring English sources

He mimics her looking at him from above her glasses like a stern headmistress: "What is your problem?

Oddie and Packham are not advocating a return to 1940s childhoods, but people are bound to make comparisons with the stern headmistress of the Enid Blyton school.

Whatsonstage.com has speculated over dream casting for the musical's other major parts, suggesting Amy Adams as the good witch Glinda, Meryl Streep as headmistress Madame Morrible, Kelsey Grammer as the Wizard and Daniel Radcliffe as the put-upon Boq.

No Shia has become a cabinet minister or general or even a headmistress in a state school, reflecting the Saudis' severe Wahhabism, in effect the kingdom's official doctrine.

Ms Nicholson quotes a headmistress bleakly informing her pupils in 1917 that "only one out of ten of you girls can ever hope to marry...You will have to make your way in the world as best you can .There had always been spinsters, but on this scale they were something else.

His wife, the headmistress of a local primary school, bought groceries at the village shop where Mrs McMullen worked.Everyone in Upperlands knew Mr Kearney had killed Mrs McMullen's husband, John Proctor.

He heard that the former headmistress of the girls' secondary school had been a classmate of the wife of the then president.

Chief executives have packed boards with cronies: Michael Eisner's board at Disney once included the former headmistress of his children's school and the man who designed his house.

But it is particularly striking in a Stockholm playground filled with Somali toddlers, squeaking as they queue for sledge-rides.The playground belongs to Karin Danielsson, a headmistress in Tensta, a Stockholm suburb with a large immigrant population.

The story defies neat conclusions.In September 2001 Karin Heremans became headmistress of the Atheneum, which has students of 45 nationalities.

When Mariana Beer was accepted to read English at Bristol in 1921, her headmistress celebrated with a half-day holiday for the entire school.