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Example sentences for "governess"

Lexicographically close words:
governante; governaunce; governe; governed; governement; governesses; governest; governeth; governing; government
  1. The governess had not pleased me at the employment-bureau; here she instantly disgusted me.

  2. Monsieur is much pleased with you," said the governess to me, in showing me over the house.

  3. The governess will pay you your wages every month.

  4. Wherever the governess might be, her return to her bed-chamber, before the servants were astir in the morning, was a chance to be counted on.

  5. Neither the governess nor the pupil was worthy of the sympathy so frankly offered to them.

  6. What would her husband say, if she (who had extorted his promise never to see the governess again) brought Sydney Westerfield back to the house?

  7. Has your governess any relations in England?

  8. Kitty was half asleep when her governess entered the room afterward, much later than usual.

  9. My governess has entirely failed to make the children like her.

  10. There could be no doubt about it; Mrs. Linley failed entirely to see any possibilities of future danger in the grateful feeling of her sensitive governess toward her handsome husband.

  11. She looked almost young again as she mentally reviewed the list of vices and crimes which a governess might commit, who had retired before eleven o'clock, and was not in her bedroom at twelve.

  12. In this way the governess became a forbidden subject between them; the husband waited for the wife to set the example of approaching it, and the wife waited for the husband.

  13. When Mrs. Presty was in the middle of the room again, Linley and the governess were no longer near each other.

  14. When the child asks why her father and her governess have left us, haven't you been obliged to invent excuses which are lies?

  15. Read it yourself," she answered; "and remember what I told you, when you trusted your husband to find a governess for my grandchild.

  16. At any rate, this governess had been taken suddenly ill, and the Doctor had been sent for at midnight.

  17. At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion.

  18. But what I meant was rather this--I couldn't endure to think that you should be put to all the petty slights and small humiliations that a governess has always to endure in rich families.

  19. To say the truth, at that moment there rose very vividly before Ernest's eyes the picture of poor shy Miss Merivale, the governess at Dunbude to little Lady Sybil, Lynmouth's younger sister.

  20. Here he became enamoured of Miss Robertson, the governess of his sisters, however; and in order to break off the connexion he was sent to make the tour through France and Italy, the young lady being dismissed from the house of her patron.

  21. On the afternoon on which she made this discovery, the whole party returned to London, and Miss Woodcock was there introduced to Madame Saunier, the governess of his lordship's illegitimate children.

  22. In a word, she was a most accomplished young creature; and her governess and lady-in-waiting was the severe Countess Gruffanuff.

  23. My friend Miss Bunch, who was governess of a large family that lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myself and my young charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome, and Messrs.

  24. Unfortunately what the governess had heard was two gardeners coming to plant new flowers in that very bed.

  25. The pupils were all assembled--the boys gathered around their tutor, on the right; the girls hovering about their governess on the left.

  26. This was none other than Charles of Egmont, Duke of Guelders, the turbulent neighbour who had been a thorn in Margaret's side ever since she became Governess of the Netherlands.

  27. His mind was soon made up, and when the French Commissioners came to Brussels in May, the appointment of the Duchess of Parma to be Governess of the Low Countries was publicly proclaimed.

  28. Now the States-General and nobles were summoned by Margaret of Austria, the newly-proclaimed Governess of the Netherlands, to attend her brother's funeral at Malines.

  29. My father, who could scarce endure to have me out of his sight--for I was an only child--engaged a governess to complete my education.

  30. So the next thing we heard was that Amelia Temple, who had been governess over the muir at Abbey Field, and had been several times at Redcleugh with Mr. Orchardstoun's daughters, was engaged to come to us at the term.

  31. Lexington, resides in the capacity of governess in a distinguished Louisianian family, not far from the city.

  32. The new governess was a pretty little woman, with smooth dark hair, and snapping black eyes, that seemed to read people's innermost thoughts.

  33. I expect a governess for Delight, a Miss Hart, who is to come with Mr. Spencer on the train this evening.

  34. Do you always have a governess like that, Delight?

  35. Although not entirely unacquainted with the Spencers, she had never before lived with them, but had been governess in the family of a friend of theirs.

  36. Afternoons the governess always had to herself.

  37. She is my friend," she answered, "and in a sense my governess too, although she did not come to us till I was grown up.

  38. The Swiss governess was the widow of a Calvinistic minister and was in charge of both children, each of whom had two lady's maids as well.

  39. Why did the lackeys smile as if to say, "The lad that is born to be king," and why was his governess so much put out when he let himself go a little in speech or action?

  40. Why did the Swiss governess teach you your steps in your tenderest years?

  41. The Swiss governess referred in so many words to him in matters of comme il faut as a model.

  42. Put the nursery governess idea out of your mind, and fire ahead for Newnham.

  43. Grey's young wife was the ci-devant governess at Mr. Ferguson's.

  44. Christian Oakley, governess and orphan--in that saddest state of orphanage which is conscious that all the world would say she had need to be thankful for the same.

  45. You are cruel to me, Mrs. Grey--you that have been a governess yourself.

  46. It is a hard life, as I know, for I was once a governess myself.

  47. Why did you not tell me that you and Aunt Maria had chosen a governess for Letitia?

  48. She had not been a governess for two years without learning that authority propped up by extraneous power is nearly useless, and that, between near connections, love commanded, not won, generally results in something very like hatred.

  49. The religious sister provided a governess to attend upon her, but the governess had not the skill to attach her to her person.

  50. She was really fond of the nervous little governess but sometimes lost patience with her.

  51. Then finding no greater sympathy from her mistress than from that saucy boy, the governess betook herself out of the way.

  52. Mrs. Montaigne told her that 'the lives of her precious children were entrusted to her hands,' and the governess feels her responsibility to the full, I tell you.

  53. Montesson, introduced her to the household of the Duc d'Orléans who soon selected her as the governess of his children.

  54. Governess of the three Princesses of Courlande, who afterwards became the Countess of Lazareff, the Countess of Hohenthal and Madame de Boyen.

  55. All the Faubourg Saint-Germain were there, including even the Duchesse de Gontaut, formerly governess to the Duc de Bordeaux; she condescended so far as to bow to me very politely.

  56. Miss Harrison, once the governess of these ladies, is a prudent and loyal person who has acted as their mother, and is respected as such in the household.

  57. Governess of the Children of France whom she followed into exile in 1830.

  58. When she recovered, she went as English governess to a rich German family in Bremen.

  59. People at her table decided that she couldn't be going out as a governess or she would hardly be travelling first class, and yet she did not look of the sort who globe-trot all by themselves.

  60. No English governess gets a good salary in Bremen, and mine was but a modest remuneration, so I wanted more.

  61. Our governess used to sit down in the park with a book, and we were allowed to follow our own devices, and amuse ourselves as we pleased.

  62. My mother engaged a governess for us, who was to teach us in a morning and take us out in the afternoon.

  63. It was about three o'clock only; I was still at my lessons with my governess in the schoolroom.

  64. It was a holiday, for my daily governess had got a slight cold and sore throat, and till quite satisfied that it was nothing infectious mamma had decided that she had better not come.

  65. Will you take the governess cart back to the house, Boxall?

  66. Patsy, who had pulled the governess cart up, rose to his feet; his sharp eye had caught sight of something lying on the road.

  67. The rooms are waiting at St. Moritz; and your father is annoyed (the governess says) by the delay that has taken place already.

  68. They have sent the governess to fetch you.

  69. Your sister has the good old governess to take care of her, and the courier to relieve her of all trouble on the journey.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "governess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbess; chaperon; chatelaine; dame; dowager; duenna; governess; matron; mistress; nursemaid; servant