Indeed I shall not wait," returned the headmistress coldly.
Mademoiselle, whose mental scales always tipped naturally towards the side of pleasure, thought it was a beautiful idea of the dear girls to want to give their headmistress a fête on her anniversary.
The headmistress was too calm ever to allow her real feelings to be seen, but the girls who knew her well, and who clustered round her now in pretty groups, watched her face with anxiety.
At first the headmistress took no notice; she quietly finished her purchases, then, bidding Nessie Hirst go on with Trissie and Mercy, she gave Sylvia a parcel to carry and told her to walk by her side.
The headmistress had been greatly distressed by the whole affair, which showed such a sad lack of the moral courage and high standard she had tried to impress upon all her girls that she could not but feel a sense of failure.
Then they mightn't send letters home without the headmistress seeing them, and she used to make them write the most absurd rubbish, so that they weren't their own letters at all.
Unfortunately, the headmistress would not allow us to go often to the theatre, a prohibition doubtless in part dependent on the high prices of the seats.
And her headmistress has just arrived,' said Susan, 'to make her worse than ever!
How comes a headmistress to be running about the country at this time of year?
The headmistress walked straight up to Netta's seat.
The headmistress was not disposed to make light of the affair; like Miss Trent, she considered that the reputation of the school might be seriously compromised by Gwen's behaviour, and she did not spare the culprit.
The excitement was intense, though awe for the headmistress forbade anybody to speak.
A summons from the headmistress rarely boded good fortune to the recipient, and the girls stared at Gwen with interested sympathy.
So is all the house, for we were very proud of her, and, of course, we all thought it a fad of the examiners, but perhaps our headmistress might not say the same.
The headmistressmade a point of getting a certain number of passes each year, and one was obliged to prepare and go in whether one was clever or not.
While the Rector and the headmistress were talking, tea had been carried into the garden, and the girls now busied themselves in attending on the guests.
When their bedtime arrived, and still they were missing, the headmistress had grown uneasy, and started in search of them.
She stood waiting while the headmistress looked with prominent eyes at some papers on her desk.
The headmistress was breathing hard, and later, when Sarah was taken to the san, she was frightened.
The headmistress of St Agatha's prided herself on being fair.
The headmistress felt her heart beat with excitement and pleasure.
Some of them didn't, and they usually left after their first term, as the headmistress didn't believe in contracts.
The headmistress stared hard at Sarah; she was rather good at this with small girls of thirteen.
Now we shall see what she has to say," the headmistress said.
The headmistress felt on secure ground: the child was losing her temper.
The headmistress looked up in amazement "Do you mean to stand there and tell me the newspaper is lying?
You are no longer a little girl," said the headmistress meaningly, beginning to feel secretly irritated.
The headmistress raised her eyes: "I shall not repeat myself, I shall not say much," she said.
This means serious expense, and theheadmistress is naturally anxious to have considerable use made of the room.
The economical headmistress must always be on the look out for an acquisition to her staff who will, like Count Smorltork's politics, "surprise in herself many branches.
The headmistress anxious to undertake something of the sort has had many difficulties to face in the immediate past.
Long before she is Headmistress she will have made her mark in her school--for not only the numerous activities mentioned but also the organisation of ordinary school work require initiative and self-reliance.
It ensured a spirit of joy in work for the whole staff; for the Headmistress and her band of like-minded colleagues were co-workers in experiments towards development and sharers in the realisation of ideals.
She had very lively visions of what the headmistress would probably say about her responsibility as head of the form, when the matter should get to her ears.
Then you acted very wrongly, Jack," the headmistress said gravely.
It was the Headmistress of this school, Miss Hodsman, who invented the net beds now in general use.
One school in London has a creche or day nursery, not exactly a part of it, but in closest touch, established owing to the efforts of an enthusiastic Headmistress working along with the Norland Place nurses.
As late as 1907 a headmistress who was a product of the training of that time remarked: "We have Kindergarten on Wednesday afternoons and then it is over for the week.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headmistress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
