Sentence examples for school mistress from inspiring English sources

'The sensuality of a frigid school mistress' … Tara Ramsey.

She is a school mistress and widow of a popular MP killed in 1990.Meanwhile, the fighting goes on.

Through sheer will and perseverance, living on the money he made from piecemeal assignments and his wife's income as a school mistress, Naipual proceeded to hurl himself at the cliquish London literary world.

Proper support means running for a bus becomes less of a jiggly-wiggly, Carry On moment and places your mammaries where they should be, which is not (as my old school mistress seemed to believe) at waist height, or hoisted to 3in below your neck.

The finely drawn cast of characters includes a tormented Catholic priest; Grand'mere Osweken, a shamanic gambling addict who heads a family of Ojibwa Indians; the local policeman, months from retirement, who wants a quiet life; a school mistress who has survived the Holocaust; and her lover, a reclusive backwoods fur-trapper.

Inspired by her finishing school mistress's admonition to indulge in all the pleasures that life affords rather than settle for the simple life of domestic bliss in Oxford, Evangeline keeps trying to lose the virginity that young Englishwomen were expected to prize.

Still, Salinger has the right to tell her own story as she sees it (although some might wonder if the pages and pages she devotes to mean boarding school mistresses and past boyfriends would be published if she weren't also revealing her father's secrets).

Opened in 1977 near the New Brunswick coastal community of Caraquet, one of North America's oldest Acadian towns, the historic village is like a tasteful theme park: dozens of wooden buildings dot the bucolic farmland, while costumed interpreters (from grubby urchins to hoity school mistresses) stroll around, bringing the past to life.

The school was recorded on maps of the village until 1909, although it was dissolved in 1930 (school mistresses Miss Fanny Harris and Miss Pepper later ran the post office and general store from an outhouse at Flint Cottage).

"I'd dress up in four of my mom's bathrobes and play Queen Victoria, or the mean boarding-school mistress, making my six-year-old cousins cry by locking them in a closet without food and water.

The movie, directed by Boaz Yakin ("Remember the Titans"), also owes a big debt to the British comedy series "Absolutely Fabulous," which pits a precociously mature child (Ray listens to Mozart, studies ballet and talks in the meticulous cadences of a prep school head mistress) against a selfish hedonist who can't pick up after herself.