Monotonous days of wood piling in a lumber yard, long weeks of isolation among the giant trees of the forest, where no sound was to be heard except the whistle of the axes, as they cleaved the air, and the coarse jokes of the workmen,then had come days when even odd jobs had been hailed with delight, and he had sat at the feet of the grim schoolmistress Necessity and learned how little man really needs to have to live.

And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the apprentice was free.

Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ablutions of private grief.

Except where literal conventions are essential to the poet's purpose,as in The Castle of Indolence, The Schoolmistress, or Chatterton's poems,I have followed modern usage.

1743?, PUBL. 1778), ll. 1-26 MATTHEW GREEN THE SPLEEN (1737), ll. 89-110, 624-642 WILLIAM SHENSTONE THE SCHOOLMISTRESS (1737), STANZAS 6, 8, 18-20, 23, 28 WRITTEN

She soon sent us an interesting young woman, a schoolmistress, to whom on her entrance we presented some tracts.

Yes, that was my last walk with the schoolmistress.

I shall call her the schoolmistress still; some of you love her under that name.

Our landlady, for instance, when we had chickens, sent the liver instead of the gizzard, with the wing, for the schoolmistress.

But I found out that the schoolmistress had a vein of charity about her, which had hitherto been worked on a small silver and copper basis, which made her think less, perhaps, of luxuries than even I did,modestly as I have expressed my wishes.

All sadness vanished, as, in the midst of these old friends of mine, whom you know, and others a little more up in the world, perhaps, to whom I have not introduced you, I took the schoolmistress before the altar from the hands of the old gentleman who used to sit opposite, and who would insist on giving her away.

The "schoolmistress" finds her skill in teaching called for again, without going abroad to seek little scholars.

"Yes," he went on, "there is a great deal of difference, Miss Sallianna, between coming to see you, who are only a schoolmistress, and hav'nt much fine company, and the rich ladies;then

[The schoolmistress came down with a rose in her hair,a fresh June rose.

Of the schoolmistress, who taught him to read and whose name was Garrington, he has drawn a pleasing picture in his verses entitled Childhood.

She is the schoolmistress of wit and the gentle governor of will, when the delight of understanding gives the comfort of study.

Dr. Young and Kippis call her the village schoolmistress, but Ord, who was a descendant on his mother's side, says: "she was the daughter of the wealthiest farmer in the neighbourhood, and wife of William Walker, a respectable yeoman of the first class residing at Marton Grange.

Would his Schoolmistress, the prettiest of poems, have been better, if he had used quite the Goody's own language?

If a man had suspected Tom of such a feeling, I fear he would have cared little, save how to restore the balance by making a fool of the man who fancied him a fool: but no male self-sufficiency or pride is proof against the contempt of woman; and Tom slunk along by the schoolmistress's side, as if he had been one of her naughtiest school-children.

For my purse can't afford to have you marrying a schoolmistress in your impoverished old age; and my character, which also is my purse, can't afford worse.

But hearkenyou mustn't turn out that schoolmistress.

Dudley Venner was between herself and the poor tired-looking schoolmistress with her faded colors.

Lamb's schoolmistress, Mrs. Reynolds, was a Miss Chambers.

A remarkably pompous clergyman who was an Inspector of Schools showed me a theme on a Scriptural subject, written by a girl who was trying to pass from being a pupil-teacher to a schoolmistress.

who, Anna revealed, was the schoolmistress banished North in 'Sixty-one.