tutoress

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She, our famed tutoress, with kind endeavour, Bound us from that day forth with heart and hand, When met fair Elgga's tribes, that we should never In hostile ranks before each other stand.

From Poems by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Pa and Ma and Allie Briskow and the tutoress have gone to the mountains—Ma's beloved mountains—and they appear to be living up to her expectations.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs. Phoebe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instruction I was affectionately recommended.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by Cleland, John

Here was where her tutoress had trouble, for when the girl's brain became weary or confused she relieved her baffled rage in her most natural way, the while Mrs. Ring stopped her ears and moaned.

From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

And there he found his three little sisters, and that you was their tutoress, and they couldn't say enough about you, nor the poor gentleman neither.

From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary