tutress

To Indiana, however, she was but nominally a tutress; neglected in her own education, there was nothing she could teach, though, born and bred in the circle of fashion, she imagined she had nothing to learn.

Camilla 2008

The latter were especially earnest, when the Lady herself condescended to be his tutress, or to examine his progress.

The Abbot 2008

Page 217 academy, observing the contract entered into between the Trustees and tutress, and that they report at the next meeting.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

Joseph E. Bell was elected Treasurer of the Board and ordered to take charge of all monies, etc., belonging to the Board; to receive the money due to the Board for tuition, and to pay the tutress half the amount of the first session, if he receive so much, or as much as he may receive, and to keep the accounts between the subscribers, the tutress and the Board.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

Resolved that the Secretary make publication that the Academy will be vacant and that a tutress or tutresses will be wanted to supply it, qualified to teach the usual branches together with musick and the ornamental branches.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

Ordered by the Board that a committee of two with the Treasurer make a settlement with Mrs. Reinhardt, formerly tutress of the female

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

It was resolved that Mrs. Lucretia Matthews be tutress of the Female Academy of Lincolnton until the Board can procure another Tutress, and no longer.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

On motion it was resolved that the students that have attained to the stand in which they are required to write and show compositions that if they fail to do so hereafter they are to be reported by the tutress to the trustees for such neglect, and that they would be excluded from any marks of distinction or honors at the examination unless they should render satisfactory excuses for such delinquency.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915

But in the Middle Ages, this action of the Fancy, now distorted and despised, was the happy and sacred tutress of every faculty of the body and soul; and the works and thoughts of art, the joys and toils of men, rose and flowed on in the bright air of it, with the aspiration of a flame, and the beneficence of a fountain.

The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford John Ruskin 1859

I am about to ask you to read the hieroglyphs upon the architecture of a dead nation, in character greatly resembling our own, -- in laws and in commerce greatly influencing our own; -- in arts, still, from her grave, tutress of the present world.

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859