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nursery-governess

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  • Then followed her experiences as nursery-governess, her evening lessons under self-selected masters, and her ultimate rise to a higher grade among the teaching sisterhood.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • She received Mrs. Sweeny as nursery-governess to her three children.

    Villette 2003

  • Her letters to her husband had been written by her nursery-governess, engaged ostensibly to instruct the children; but in reality to act as amanuensis for the lady of the house.

    The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer

  • The children had never seen or known their aunt, and the people with whom she had last resided in Montreal (in the capacity of nursery-governess) had known her as Miss Rogers, and had lately lost all trace of her whereabouts.

    The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer

  • About midnight Amy Watson, the sister of the nursery-governess, took her departure, and Mr. D'Alton with his friends, went up to the billiard room to enjoy themselves at their favorite game.

    The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer

  • Did she fully realize what she was doing -- she, young, beautiful, talented -- in pleading to be tied down to the dull routine of a nursery-governess?

    A Bachelor's Dream

  • 'I was nursery-governess in a family where Mr. Copperfield came to visit.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • “I was nursery-governess in a family where Mr. Copperfield came to visit.

    I. I Am Born 1917

  • The only field open to her was that of a nursery-governess or companion; neither was likely to enable her to pay this debt of honour quickly.

    The Good Comrade Una Lucy Silberrad 1913

  • But Charlotte's fun was soon over, and she became a nursery-governess again at Mrs. White's, of Rawdon.

    The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

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