Monitress

I thank Heaven, that hath taught me better thoughts than my own vanity suggested, through the medium of so kind a monitress. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here is a question I received in the Q& A box that I keep in the library: As a student at Motswasele I have found that if a teacher can choose you to be the leader like monitor/ monitress student they start rumours or being jealous talking about your self. ❋ Jennifer Marie Jordan (2008)

She, my monitress, my guide, my counsel, gone, for ever gone! by whose advice and instructions I hoped to acquit myself tolerably in the state to which I could not avoid entering. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For, alas! my stay, my adviser, my monitress, my directress, is gone! — for ever gone! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

But it is so discouraging a thing to have my monitress so very good! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thus, upon the whole, the little maiden was disposed to submit, though not without some wincing, to the grave admonitions of the Lady Hermione; and the rather that the mystery annexed to the person of her monitress was in her mind early associated with a vague idea of wealth and importance, which had been rather confirmed than lessened by many accidental circumstances which she had noticed since she was more capable of observation. ❋ Unknown (2004)

‘Caroline,’ said the stern monitress, ‘you are already learning to laugh at principles which have been dear to you since you left your mother’s breast. ❋ Unknown (2004)

- 'Why, it is my daily pleasure now to look out for the little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf glancing through the trees in the lane, and to know that my quiet, shrewd, thoughtful companion and monitress is coming back to me: that I shall have her sitting in the room to look at, to talk to, or to let alone, as she and I please. ❋ Unknown (2004)

'Ah!' said the monitress, shaking her head and heaving a deep sigh. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Margaret, with feigned simplicity, but far from being sorry at heart, that she had found an indirect mode of mortifying her monitress. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince Vasili and the eldest princess. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated. ❋ Unknown (2003)

‘I will do my utmost,’ said he, ‘to remember and perform the injunctions of my angel monitress;’ and after kissing both my gloved hands, he let me go. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Her duties were not merely to learn her lessons, to read a certain quantity, to gain certain ideas; she had, besides, to brush rooms, to run errands up and down stairs, to help in the simpler forms of cooking, to be by turns play-fellow and monitress to her younger sisters and brother, to make and to mend, and to study economy under her careful aunt. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The recess bell rang and Five A lost no time filing out to the corridor and thence to tuck shop and gymnasium, but Judith was delayed by her duties as monitress and Nancy was not to be seen when she reached the corridor. ❋ Ethel Hume Bennett (N/A)

"Kate, take them in," said the mistress to a tiny monitress, when she became conscious of the inquiring glances. ❋ Edward Newenham Hoare (N/A)

Constance Weber was his guide -- his monitress -- his guardian angel. ❋ Various (N/A)

The only exceptions to this rule are preparation, when we sit at desks under the eye of a monitress, and gymnasium work. ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

"What are you eating, Beth?" she asked in a cautious voice, whispering, fearful of awaking a monitress and being reported for talking. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)