Which preposition to use with schoolmistresses
We talked with the old schoolmistress in Cunliffe Street till it was "high twelve" at noon, and then the kind jailer of learning's little prison-house let all her fretful captives go.
She looked about and assumed the air of a schoolmistress with a room full of noisy pupils; but Johnnie, her cheeks pink too, first swept them all with an astonished gaze which flung the long lashes up in such a wide curve of innocence as made her eyes bewitching, then joined it, and laughed as loud as any of them at she knew not what.
The real truth is that in marriage a man is schoolmaster to his wife and she is equally schoolmistress to him.
She is the schoolmistress of wit and the gentle governor of will, when the delight of understanding gives the comfort of study.
She came to London a stranger, a plain schoolmistress from Bristol, and yet in a marvellously short time she was one of the best known characters in the ranks of the wise and great.
"Gentleman Jan cut him over, for pelting the schoolmistress below here.
Wanted to turn the schoolmistress out of her place because she went to chapel sometimes.
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.
It was often purchased by their kind schoolmistress for their amusement and instruction.