tutoress

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This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Now, love was Miss Amelia Sedley's last tutoress, and it was amazing what progress our young lady made under that popular teacher.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

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