Mrs. Janney's first point of call was a strange place in which to look for a nursery governess.
Fortunately for me, I was always a good one to throw a bluff and, having made a few excursions into the halls of the rich and great, I felt I could be safely featured as a nursery governess.
She was curious to know why I asked such a question, and when I said I had to ask any and every sort of question or she'd be paying a detective's salary to a nursery governess, she saw the sense of it and quieted down.
She felt listlessly disinclined to state her qualifications as nursery governess, or mother's help, to the various ladies who hankered after such commodities.
For two years since her parents' death, she had occupied the post of nursery governess in the family of a Mrs. Donaldson, to whom her mother had once shown some trifling kindness.
The young woman was only a nursery governess, to be sure, in our house, and then widow of some skipper or other; but she was respectable, though of humble position.
She seemed to me a lovely, amiable, attractive girl of seventeen, not very well educated, yet quite old enough and learned enough to be nursery governess to a little lady of seven summers.
It was you who were charged with the duty of finding a nursery governess for me, and you selected Rose Flowers from a host of applicants.
She's been speaking, Dick, of taking a place this summer as nursery governess.
If I needed it would you give me a recommendation as a nursery governess?
Why not, when school was over, try for a position as nursery governess?
She called him to the telephone the next morning while he was at breakfast; just to tell him she was in town, she said, and to ask him if he had heard anything from his sister in Omaha as to whether she wanted a nursery governess.
A rich young adoring husband instead of a job as nursery governess in Omaha!
I remember how much trouble you said she had finding a nursery governess.
Nursery governess was a comprehensive word in the Eyton-Eyton vocabulary; covered every duty that in a nursery must be performed.
That a nursery governess-- not even a servant--should so presume!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nursery governess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
