Word: instructress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Says the Advertiser: "In Professor Childs' work on the "English and Scottish Ballads," Harvard College has added another to the long list of scholarly productions which show her to be a living literary centre, as well as an instructress, creating new thought as well as imparting...
...maiden whether she be yet free from the bonds of the school-mistress, and lo, the maiden is abashed, and the young man rejoiceth, and shouteth "Ha! ha!" and verily the day feels warmer, and he followeth up the attack with a demand to know the name of her instructress in Sunday School, and if this be the first time that she hath disported herself in the giddy dance at the house of one that is known unto her; and lo, the scoffs of the maiden are as a broken reed, and the young man presenteth a sub-Freshman...
Room in Ecstasy Hall. A free-lunch counter furnished with cigars and wine; four or five girls and two or three men in easy-chairs, smoking and drinking; MISS CARBUNCLE, Instructress, at a desk...