Sentence examples for old governess from inspiring English sources

When she left home – she lived for many years with her old governess, Helen Rootham, though they were not lovers – George paid her rent, but meagrely.

She was 46 and, for all her love of adventure, was an English aristocrat who bought her crinolines in Paris, traveled with a French maid and still wrote letters to her old governess.

She thought up the tale of "four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter" in 1893, in a letter to Noel Moore, the sickly son of her old governess.

Clara realises that the pond that contains the old governess' body is the only thing still frozen around them.

In 1541, Henry had the Countess of Salisbury, Mary's old governess and godmother, executed on the pretext of a Catholic plot, in which her son (Reginald Pole) was implicated.

The Doctor visits the pond and deduces that the Great Intelligence is using the old governess' body as a DNA blueprint to form an ice creature that will retain its form and not melt.

Potter initially wrote and illustrated stories about a troublemaking rabbit named Peter in the 1890s to entertain the ailing 5-year-old son of her former governess.

The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893.

The story is about two orphaned children, Flora and the older Miles, who are from a well-to-do family somewhere in England; their governess; and the "ghosts" of the dead valet Peter Quint and former governess Miss Jessel.

The Queen's household was run by her former governess, Baroness Lehzen.

In 1843 the family hired Fanny Dürbach, a 22-year-old French governess, to look after the children and teach Tchaikovsky's older brother Nikolai and a niece of the family.