schoolma'am

• “A schoolma'am, which is what he thought her to be, would certainly not have hunted.”

  The Last Gamble

• “Perhaps not in the same shape-the schoolma'am is quite emancipated and the schoolhouse 20 or more times larger-but that dedication to a vocation still exists.”

  Education and the Knowledge-Based Society

• “Fortunately, to face these problems and to meet this challenge to educators, we still have those relics from the past, the schoolma'am and the little red schoolhouse.”

  Education and the Knowledge-Based Society

• “Nevertheless, three things that year's work did, well worth the doing: it relieved a vast amount of physical suffering; it transported 7000 fugitives from congested centres back to the farm; and, best of all, it inaugurated the crusade of the New England schoolma'am.”

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue

• “I see whole rows of these young faces in an old school-house, far from here, close by the sea, -- can see the little girls running in, when the schoolma'am knocked, and settling down in their forms, panting for breath.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864

• “Now look here, John Hunter, you can't go an 'carry this schoolma'am off till this here term's finished.”

  The Wind Before the Dawn

• “To the spiteful Crane child the schoolma'am was "stuck-up," while to the imaginative daughter of the Farnshaw house she was a bird of paradise, and though Lizzie was conscious that the teacher's voice was harsh, and her air affected, the child reached out like a drowning man toward this symbol of the life she coveted.”

  The Wind Before the Dawn

• “Dan Dean was not slow to observe the unconscious drifting of Job away from the church and toward the schoolma'am.”

  The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras

• “Thought perhaps the way that schoolma'am jilted yer would take the big-head out of yer.”

  The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras

• “The fall term had ended, and the schoolma'am was going home; no more school till spring.”

  The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras

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