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Example sentences for "schoolmarm"

Lexicographically close words:
schoolgirls; schoolhouse; schoolhouses; schooling; schoolman; schoolmaster; schoolmastering; schoolmasters; schoolmate; schoolmates
  1. One old man, I need not name, stepped jauntily by the side of a pretty schoolmarm and swore he was 32, but the climb of a mile made him, with blushes which tinged the cuticle of his bald head, acknowledge he was past 65.

  2. No wonder the Indian gives this country a clear berth, or that a good schoolmarm tourist constantly had on her lips Hades!

  3. Schoolmarm she lays on a stroke a minute when we are late at noon spell.

  4. Schoolmarm lays on for that, and no mistake!

  5. You kin jes' bet your life on that; ther schoolmarm give it to me.

  6. The schoolmarm asked: "Why didn't you black people poison all the whites and get your freedom that way?

  7. It got its story from a Yankee schoolmarm who got it from a negro woman.

  8. The Ku Klux whipped several male teachers, one an ex-Confederate, and warned a schoolmarm or two to leave.

  9. Strue's I live, and I want it awfully for the new schoolmarm over there in the chair with them swells standin' by her.

  10. I'm not afraid of any schoolmarm I've ever seen, and I mean to carry the new one out on a couple of chips if she tries to boss me.

  11. He'd most likely raise Cain with a schoolmarm who couldn't walk and went on crutches.

  12. The schoolmarm scrambled down, still screaming protests at the grinning rider.

  13. There was a shriek and a gray horse, carrying a youth with the schoolmarm clinging behind him, flew across the yard and reared to avoid breaking his knees on the steps.

  14. Well," he continued, returning, "the schoolmarm must have taken quite a notion to Uncle Hughey.

  15. She'd be just the schoolmarm for Bear Creek!

  16. That must have been mighty close to a drowndin' the schoolmarm got at South Fork.

  17. Say, Nebrasky, who have yu' offered your canary to the schoolmarm said you mustn't give her?

  18. Then George proceeded to tell the schoolmarm, eagerly, all about Steve and Ed, while the schoolmarm looked at him with a rigid face.

  19. Better persuade the schoolmarm to learn it.

  20. The schoolmarm raised her thin hand and her thin voice.

  21. I happened to find the little schoolmarm crying bitterly in a clump of sage-brush near the water-troughs.

  22. The schoolmarm first told me that the child was asking for Andrew Spooner, moaning, wailing, shrieking for "pore old Pap.

  23. At breakfast the schoolmarm asked Ajax if there was likely to be a prayer-meeting.

  24. The little schoolmarm stared at the beast, fascinated by fear and horror.

  25. The Schoolmarm looked at him, wide-eyed with horror.

  26. Quite unconsciously, with unintentional egotism, the Schoolmarm had a way of standing off and viewing herself, as it were, through the rosy glow of romance.

  27. Truly, Smith guarded the Schoolmarm with the vigilance of a sheep-dog.

  28. The Schoolmarm ignored the handbill episode and went on: "Besides, a lack of education is such a handicap in business.

  29. In the room behind the white-curtained window the Schoolmarm walked the floor with her cheeks aflame and as close to hysteria as ever she had been in her life.

  30. Everybody stopped eating during this important ceremony, and now all looked at Smith to see what form his acknowledgment of the coveted introduction to the Schoolmarm would take.

  31. I named her after a Schoolmarm we had--she looks so solemn and important.

  32. I noticed at the table," the Schoolmarm went on in some embarrassment, "that you held your fork as though you were afraid it would get away from you.

  33. In one of those illuminating flashes to which the Schoolmarm was subject, she saw herself as Smith's guiding-star, leading him to the triumphant finish of the career which she believed his unique but strong personality made possible.

  34. The Schoolmarm looked wonderingly at the bundle.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolmarm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dame; duenna; governess; mistress