We wish to show that all work is honorable," said the Directress to me, "and our teachers are all ladies.
Meetings are held by the Directress with the mothers, and in several parts of the city three or four mothers have united in supporting little Kindergartens for their own families.
The teaching of theDirectress is also put in practice by mothers in their own homes, where much more time is devoted to the children than formerly.
The sewers his portion placed Of meat before him, and the maiden, chief Directress of the household gave him bread.
She and her venerable companion, Mrs. Sarah Hoffman, second directress of the Widows' Society, travelled many a day and many a step together in the walks of charity.
It was about this time that, deeming the duties too laborious for her health, she resigned the office of first directress of the Widows' Society, and took the place of a manager.
It was a stupid way of getting there; it would have been much better to have driven all the way, but the directress of our party did not think so.
I am ever blest with a coadjutress, a directress let me rather say, formed under such auspices, with what delight shall I transplant the principles and practices of Stanley Grove to the Priory!
It appeared to me that three of the grand inducements in the choice of a wife, are, that a man may have a directress for his family, a preceptress for his children, and a companion for himself.
The directress seems a good kind-hearted woman, who devoted herself to doing her duty, and who is very gentle to her patients; using no means but those of kindness and steadiness to subdue their violence.
They were all seated on little mats at the foot of their small green beds; a regiment of the finest and healthiest children possible; a directress in the room sewing.
Patricia explained why the directress had not been told.
I have now only a few words to say, bearing on what seems to me present need, respecting the third function of Athena, conceived as the directress of human passion, resolution, and labor.
Moreover, the directress of studies embellishes the walls of the hut with rude pictures, each with its special significance and song, which must be understood and learned by the girl.
The directress of the rites and the older women instruct the young girl as to the elementary facts of life, the duties of marriage, and the rules of conduct, decorum, and hospitality to be observed by a married woman.
Madame now got credit for having acted on this occasion in a spirit of motherly partiality: she came off with flying colours; people liked her as a directress better than ever.
That worthy directress had never from the first treated me otherwise than with respect; and when she found that I was liable to frequent invitations from a château and a great hotel, respect improved into distinction.
Pillule must be recalled: the prudent directress will never venture to permit the attendance of so young a man on the pupils.
The directress was very prudent, but she could also be intrepidly venturous.
There was always, naturally, an increase of friction between the two women, especially when the absence of the directress occurred at the beginning of a term.
Each of the six chief army "commands" throughout the Empire now has a woman attached to it as Directress of the "Division for Women's Service.
The directress for the Mark of Brandenburg (the Berlin-Potsdam district) is an able Jewess named Dr.
I am unable to state what the late directress of the Governor-General's family said or did!
Circumstantial evidence piled up: and the most hateful part for me was that Maida, as well as the directress of the Grey Sisterhood, should be called as a witness.
Maida was too proud to risk being coerced; and when the first day after the sending out of the embroidery passed without result, she obeyed the directress and let herself be dressed.
There was not a doubt in my mind but this was the formidable directress of the Grey Sisterhood, come in person to meet--I had almost said "her victim.
I told what I knew of the girl, beginning with the day I saw her leave Sing Sing prison with the directress of the Grey Sisterhood, and going on to the episode of the note dropped, weighted with a rose.
If she could get evidence that the directress of the Grey Sisterhood was the leader of a criminal gang, posing as a charitable reformer, I could not only say "I told you so!
Because Doctor Rameses had found America too hot for him after his last plot against me, no doubt the directress of the Grey Sisterhood had been waiting her chance to play Ruth to his Boaz.
During the drive to the hotel, she was speechless with pain, and Maida, who had never seen the strong, vital directress in such a condition, was anxious.
She offered me the position of directress at T----.
Before entering school, we three went one day with Madame de Brimont to make acquaintance with the Directress of the establishment and to look over the building.
In another minute I and the directress were walking side by side down the alley bordered with fruit-trees, whose white blossoms were then in full blow as well as their tender green leaves.
I had propounded, I was at liberty to employ the vacant half hour in further observing the directress herself.
Next day was appropriated to the first class; on my arrival, I found the directress seated, as usual, in a chair between the two estrades, and before her was standing Mdlle.
And the directress would not let her in to bid me good-bye?
I felt its strengthening effect when I met the directress the next day; its stringent operation on the nerves suffered no trembling, no faltering; it enabled me to face her with firmness, to pass her with ease.
The directress was knitting and talking at the same time.
As the Romans would rather recognize their monarchs as gods than as masters, so do men like to call the directress of their heart goddess rather than mistress,--because it is easier to adore than to obey.
I have been told by a directress of a Protestant orphan asylum, that on one occasion a squalid woman, accompanied by two boys, presented herself and entreated that her children might be received into the asylum.
She was appointed Directress for the township where she resided, and as the hospital was about to be located near Chester, she, with others, directed her attention to preparing and furnishing it.
They then give the slip back to the directress and set about carrying out the action.
Certainly, the education of the child was a little disordered, and the directress had left the spontaneous explanation of his mental activities excessively free.
The directress should act as the go-between in these matters, since she is in the confidence of the mothers, and since from her, such advice comes naturally.
Allowing the letters to lie for some instants upon the table, the directress asks the child, "What is this?
There will come a day when thedirectress herself shall be filled with wonder to see that all the children obey her with gentleness and affection, not only ready, but intent, at a sign from her.
When the child shows that he can with security distinguish between the forms of the plane geometric insets, the directress may begin the lessons in nomenclature.
The Directress of the Casa dei Bambini at Milan constructed under one of the windows a long, narrow shelf upon which she placed the little tables containing the metal geometric forms used in the first lessons in design.
He had then to pronounce clearly the name of a toy and present the card to the directress in order that she might verify the word he had spoken.
When he has finished he takes his tray to the directress that she may verify his work.
Coming into the school one day, I found that the directress had allowed the children to take the tables and chairs out upon the terrace, and was having school in the open air.
The directress seeks to explain to the children that it is useless to have all those things upon the desk, and that the point of the game lies in taking the exact number of objects called for.
When each child had had a turn, thedirectress called the first child and let him draw a card from another basket.
The directress had thought best not to interfere, as yet, in the teaching of the child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "directress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
