Miss Kaye had made a wise choice in appointing her monitress of the upper landing, as no one could have more fully appreciated the responsibilities of the post.
As monitress of the upper landing she had the whole of the third class under her care, and, seeing one of her charges in such distress, she came at once to enquire the cause.
On the first morning after her arrival, May Spencer, who was monitress on her landing, went into her bedroom, and told her it was time to get up.
No one but the monitress was supposed to enter, and that only by the mistress's orders; so Aldred had no business there, and had gone in out of curiosity to see what it contained.
Miss Edwards gave Lesbia a few necessary directions, told the monitress to get out the dictation books, took her copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars from her desk, and departed to give a Latin lesson to IVB.
Maisie Martin, monitress for the month, was in no mood to hurry herself.
The monitress shuffled back noisily between the rows of desks, giving a pinch to Gladys as she passed, an episode which Lesbia, anxious to get on with the lesson, judged it expedient to overlook.
Yes, an easy-going monitress means a slack Form," agreed Lottie.
A monitress dealt out papers, and in a moment or two Miss Cartwright, the Principal, stepped on to the platform.
Place them in groups according to their separate cars, and apportion a monitress to look after each set.
He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince Vasili and the eldest princess.
Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.
You see,' said hermonitress pitilessly, 'you will be injudicious.
A monitress knelt at either side, and one held my head.
The Monitress withdrew silently, and presently returning handed a portion of bread.
Not so closely but that the Monitresscould look again, to sigh over that creature of gross wants with angel-bright hair.
The dark-robed monitress knelt in prayer beside her.
He took up again the abandoned Hyperion, and began rewriting it no longer as a direct narrative, but as a vision shewn and interpreted by a supernaturalmonitress acting to him somewhat the same part as Virgil acts to Dante.
Reverting to a loftier strain, and acknowledging the grace she has so far shown him, the poet asks his monitress to reveal herself.
Very different was Miss Andrews, whose hearty, breezy ways were more those of a monitress than of a mistress.
Dorrie was special monitress for the Fourth Form, and knew the mind of the juniors.
A monitress is just one of ourselves, only with authority that we all allow.
She had been monitress for the afternoon in the drawing-class, and after the girls had left she stayed behind to put away various articles that had been used and to tidy the room.
She admitted that the monitress had reason for wrath, and that she had really no excuse worthy of urging in extenuation of her crime.
Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
If Miss Pollard had only chosen me as a monitress I could have organised everything exactly like it used to be done at The Limes.
Sitting in her green nook, watching the golden light sparkling upon the river below, she faced her problem: "Merle would really make a far better monitress than I should.
Whereupon Sybil dissolved into tears, and confided to her nearest friend that so long as Merle Ramsay wasmonitress she was afraid she would never be happy at 'The Moorings.
How can they choose a monitress when they don't know anybody!
Merle, whose motto was 'once a monitress always a monitress,' could not see why she might reprove Norma Bradley in the playground, but must allow that damsel ostentatiously to do exactly the same act in the recreation room under her very nose.
A nice example for a monitress to set to the rest of the form!
I've been hoping to be made monitress ever since Miss Pollard spoke about reorganising the school.
Being monitress is all very well, I daresay, but I'm not going to let you sit up till midnight, my dearie, over your books.
It was a naughty thing for a monitress to propose, but even Sybil, who happened to overhear, did not wax moral for the occasion.
I wouldn't have had Aubrey a monitress for worlds.
Honor was about to ask more questions, but at that moment Vivian Holmes, the monitress and head girl of the house, came bustling into the room.
Having shown Evelyn the unromantic origin of her spectre, the monitress left her, apparently pacified, and went downstairs.
The monitresshad no sympathy with lawlessness, and preferred girls who upheld the school rules, instead of breaking them.
I'm monitress here, and I don't intend to have this kind of thing going on at St. Chad's.
Vivian's rather snappy this evening," whispered Lettice, as the monitress stalked away.
A monitress had been dispatched to fetch Honor back, but in a short time she returned alone, and reported that she could not find her.
Her screams not only roused all the girls on the higher rooms, but brought up Vivian Holmes, who had been crossing the hall at the moment, and felt it her duty as monitress to go and investigate.
It's absurd if one can't play the least joke without a monitress interfering and making a ridiculous fuss.
Time was too precious to be wasted, and the monitress was something of a disciplinarian.
She kept rules rigidly herself, and had scant patience with those who did not, serving out retribution in her capacity ofmonitress with an unsparing hand.
And even the School House," added Chatty, "though their monitress once stopped a runaway donkey on the shore.
Oh, please don't go sneaking to themonitress on my account!
But telling a monitress isn't like telling a teacher," objected Ruth.
Honor sprang to the door, but her face fell as she saw the monitress arrive empty-handed.
Undue exuberance of spirits during a first term was in her eyes presumption, and not to be countenanced by a monitress who did her duty.
I'm not going to have any of that silly rot going on in the Pink Dorm, if I'm to be monitress here.
You don't mean to say you are going to be our monitress this term?
She said she wasn't going to have any of that silly rot going on in her dorm so long as she was monitress there.
Now we're so far away from one another it won't be safe for me to go to your cubicle or for you to come to mine--at any rate, not until we see what sort of a monitress Muriel is going to be.
This was Muriel Paget, head girl of Wakehurst Priory, prefect and monitress as well, and Phyllis left for the moment her inquisition of the occupant of Cubicle Thirteen, to join in the chorus of welcome.
I loathe Veronica," she added in a whisper to Ardiune, as the monitress tripped cheerily to the door.
Hermie to Raymonde two days later, when the latter was helping the monitress to put away the wood-carving tools; "what's the matter with Cynthia Greene?
I'd rather attend to a dozen nice little black Berkshires than act monitress to those juniors!
Naturally the monitressdid look, and fled into the courtyard in pursuit of the runaway.
The voice of the monitress quite shook, and there was a troubled, very nearly tearful expression in her eyes.
In the passage a monitress was standing, and when she saw Kathleen she came up to her and said in an agitated tone: "They are all assembled in the great hall.
I'm a monitress as much as the rest of you," she remarked, "and I have my authority from Miss Kingsley.
I put it to every monitress to make it a point of honour to keep up discipline.
Some of those babes will do anything for a monitress they like.
In her capacity of monitress Vivien was not a favourite.
It doesn't do for one monitress to allow a thing, and another to forbid it.
Claudia, who was workingmonitress for the week, and whose duty it was to collect the exercise-books and give them to Miss Kingsley.
The last half second was the undoing of Effie, for at that very same instant the monitress reentered the room.
I have sometimes wondered whether the obviously scandalized gesture of the Lady Principal might not be directed at these Cupids, rather than at anything the monitress may have been reading, for she would surely find them disquieting.
I have sometimes wondered whether the obviously scandalised gesture of the Lady Principal might not be directed at these Cupids, rather than at anything the monitress may have been reading, for she would surely find them disquieting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monitress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
