They must be terribly afraid of me," thought Tom, but further musings were put to an end by the arrival of the preceptress herself.
Well, here goes," said Tom to himself, as he walked up to the residence of the preceptress and rang the bell.
Madame de Noisville, dame d'honneur to the Princess Potemkin, educated her and her sisters: the friendship of the pupil and the preceptress does honour to both.
As soon as it was known that the daughter of the Preceptresshad arrived, the citizens of whatever city we had stopped in hastened to extend to her every courtesy and favor possible for them to bestow.
I listened with the keenest interest to this curious and instructive history; and when the Preceptress had ceased speaking.
So I requested the Preceptress to permit Wauna to accompany me as a guide and companion; a request she readily complied with.
The Preceptress of the National College appointed her daughter Wanna as a guide and instructor to me.
The Preceptressremained silent a long time, apparently absorbed in the beauty of the landscape that stretched before us.
My heart and my brain ached with memory, and the thought again occurred: "Could the Preceptress ever have known such a race of people?
I asked the Preceptress to explain to me how I might carry back to the people of my country this social happiness, this equality of physical comfort and luxury; and she answered me with emphasis: "Educate them.
It developed upon the Preceptress to break the news to the afflicted mother.
The expression, "domestic misery," that the Preceptress made use of one day in conversation with me, haunted my imagination with a persistent suspicion of mystery.
I questioned the Preceptress as to the possibility of its ever being discovered?
I am the daughter of the Preceptress of the National College," said Wauna; and that was the way she introduced herself.
The Preceptress of the National College was the leading scientist of the country.
The Preceptress but gave expression to the belief inculcated by centuries of the teachings and practices of her ancestors.
The Preceptress and one or two others of her nearest and most intimate friends called at the house during the first shock of her bereavement.
But the plague of it was that the thought of the training brought with it the memory of the preceptress who had so ably carried out his orders.
His evenings were spent with Ram Lal, and his mornings with the deluded Justine, who dared not now write to the calm-faced preceptress in Geneva how far the tide of love had swept her on.
I do not care to expose myself here--" "The Preceptress might telegraph out to India and the girl be spirited away!
When Alan Hawke drew forth a hideous carbuncle and Indian filigree bracelet (an old relic of bazaar haunting), the thin lips of the preceptress parted in a wintry smile.
She was preceptressin the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, New York, associate principal of the Seneca Collegiate Institute, also of the Binghamton Academy, and was afterward preceptress of Oxford Academy until her marriage with Rev.
Leaving an excellent young woman as preceptress in my stead, I gathered from eighteen hundred to two thousand garments for freedmen, and hospital supplies for soldiers, and with papers from Austin Blair, governor of our State, from F.
We've always had a lady preceptressat our house, besides the nurse, to take care of us.
The girl of the Red Mill had never lost the first impression the preceptress had made upon her childish mind and heart when she had come to Briarwood Hall.
The lady preceptress of your school has naught to do with this matter.
Nor for many other nights, if at all," the preceptress said firmly.
There was enough, they knew, to warrant the preceptress in having the work of tearing away the ruins begun.
The Briarwood Hall preceptress allowed her girls to go only where she could trust the land-ladies to have some oversight over their lodgers.
Not because of the fire did the preceptress consider sending Amy Gregg home, for the origin of the fire was plainly an accident, though bred in carelessness.
The preceptress urged all her guests to do what they could to advertise the film of "The Heart of a Schoolgirl" in their home towns, and especially urged them to see it.
The Preceptress was a really handsome lady--perhaps forty-five, perhaps ten years older.
Besides, it was vacation week, and the Preceptress was much more lenient.
The Preceptress turned to Ruth and shook hands with her.
I really hoped the girls of my dormitory would not force me to call the attention of the Preceptress to them because of demerits this half--and I did not believe the trouble would start with two young ladies who had just arrived.
The friends heard that the last named association was governed by the Preceptress and teachers almost entirely.
Preceptress at her desk, while the old doctor, quite as blind and deaf to everything but his own work as usual, was bent over his papers at the end of the long table.
Davison--yes," thePreceptress said, in some surprise.
So had said Mrs. Tellingham when Ruth Fielding and her chum presented themselves before the Preceptressnot many hours before.
The countenance of the Preceptress did not lighten at all when she saw Ruth come in.
The Preceptress took up a letter from her desk and read it through again.
You see, it's patronized by the teachers and the Preceptress herself.
And the Preceptress glided around the fountain and confronted the harpist with a suddenness that quite startled him.
There stood Frau Deuseldorf in commanding attitude, her back to the door, unconscious of the approach of the preceptress and her friends, and waving the unfinished bit of crocheting in the air.
Nan cried, putting up her lips for the warm kiss the preceptress gave her.
The preceptress listened quietly; nor did she smile at Bess Harley's way of trying to straighten out the affair.
Later the preceptress wrote a very nice letter to Walter Mason's father, commending his son for the bravery and good sense he had shown in saving the girl canoeists.
Prescott," Nan said faintly, as the preceptress halted for breath.
Even "Momsey," whom she worshipped, could not cross a room as did the preceptress of Lakeview Hall.
Miss Martin, who was then preceptress of Monnett Hall, recalls King Eng's efforts to master English.
But, in the meantime, Utanka entered his preceptor's abode and paid his respects to his preceptress and presented her the ear- rings.
Thus addressed, his preceptress replied, 'Go unto King Paushya and beg of him the pair of ear-rings worn by his Queen, and bring them hither.
And his preceptress that morning after having bathed was dressing her hair sitting, thinking of uttering a curse on Utanka if he should not return within time.
Ladies, behold the preceptress of the Kankakee Academy.
The preceptress realized that the girls had been under a nervous strain all day and she did not have it in mind to restrain them, even though they exceeded the bounds laid down by Seminary law.
The preceptress gave me permission to go with the understanding that we were in your mother's charge.
She went directly to the preceptress and in a few moments returned with that lady herself, who listened to the story of the difficulties.
The fact that it was Friday night, and that the week had been one which had been void of relaxation or amusement in any way, moved the preceptress to shorten the study hour and lengthen the time for recreation.
Even her old preceptress at Hillside Station had given her some advice when Man Allworth had tattooed the tiny V on her thigh that meant she had been selected for the veterinary staff.
She could remember every word her preceptress had spoken.
Our excellent preceptress always says 'When in doubt, my dears, take an extreme case.
But our excellent preceptress said that wasn't a good instance.
Rosier with full powers, as the preceptress of her children, except as to their religious education; she stipulated that Catholic tenets should not be instilled into them.
No intelligent preceptress will, it is hoped, find any difficulty in the application of the observations they may meet with in the chapters on imagination, sympathy and sensibility, vanity and temper.
Three hundred a year, for twelve or fourteen years, the space of time which a preceptress must probably employ in the education of a young lady, would be a suitable compensation for her care.
I presented myself on that memorable occasion to an honoredpreceptress in your late father's family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preceptress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
