Sentence examples for school headmistress from inspiring English sources

In his autobiography Marshall explained how he managed to get through the Dunkirk evacuation of 1940: "I chose to imagine that we were all in a vast girls' school: Headmistress, Miss Gladys Gort; School colours, khaki and black; School motto, Don't Look Back Or You Might See Something Nasty.

Horrid Miss Minchin, Sara's boarding school headmistress, switches her from pampered pupil into kitchen slave.

He said in a statement on Wednesday that the cook's complaints to the school headmistress about the contaminated cooking oil were ignored.

Off the big screen her portrayals have included a private school headmistress turned convicted murderer ("Mrs. Harris" on HBO) and straight woman to the Cookie Monster on video.

MPs are paid about the same as a junior school headmistress or headmaster, I've got lost and lots of those in my constituency, there's only one MP.

Her affect as Prime Minister was that of a censorious school headmistress: she hectored, lectured, and patronized, wagging her finger in reprimand as if the nation were populated entirely by unruly and resentful teen-agers.

It probably didn't help that the models are dead ringers for a certain type of young socialite known to dance topless on nightclub tables and drive private school headmistresses to distraction.

Next he summons up the courage to romance the unutterably cool Samantha Mathis and bring down the evil local high-school headmistress in one fabulous stroke.

In her dealings with chefs and suppliers alike, Bengis-Palei comes across as part girls'-school headmistress and part larger-than-life Jewish mother and professional noodge: if not beloved by everyone, then certainly respected, listened to and, above all, obeyed.

Jean S. Harris, the private-school headmistress whose 1981 trial for the murder of a prominent Scarsdale, N.Y., physician galvanized a nation with its story of vengeance by a woman scorned, died on Sunday at an assisted-living center in New Haven.

This week in pictures: Subway-surfing saints in Mexico, hurricane riders in New Orleans, boogieing British policemen, and a peculiar Japanese bird with a look so piercing, it reminds you of your high-school headmistress.