Governess sentence examples

After dinner Speranski's daughter and her governess rose.

He studied with his sisters' governess until he was nine, when he was sent to a school at Walthamstow.

In 1674 the king determined to have his children at court, and their governess, who had now made sufficient fortune to buy the estate of Maintenon, accompanied them.

Encouraged by his mother, and under the influence of his governess Madame de Roucoulle, and of his first tutor Duhan, a French refugee, he acquired an excellent knowledge of French and a taste for literature and music. He even received secret lessons in Latin, which his father invested with all the charms of forbidden fruit.

"And who is this?" she asked her governess, peering into the face of her own daughter dressed up as a Kazan-Tartar.

Their daughters might have a private governess to teach them at home.

Madame de Maintenon was the widow of the dramatist Scarron, and first came into relationship with the king as governess to his illegitimate children.

Louise Lehzen, a native of Coburg, had come to England as governess to the Princess Fecdore of Leiningen, the duchess of Kent's daughter 1 The question of her name, as that of one who was to be queen,.

and Queen Marie Antoinette; his governess was the famous Madame de Geniis, to whose influence he doubtless owed many of the qualities which later distinguished him: his wide, if superficial knowledge, his orderliness, and perhaps his parsimony.

At that table were his mother, his mother's old lady companion Belova, his wife, their three children with their governess and tutor, his wife's nephew with his tutor, Sonya, Denisov, Natasha, her three children, their governess, and old Michael Ivanovich, the late prince's architect, who was living on in retirement at Bald Hills.

the Instructions donnees a la marquise de Tourzel, governess of the children of France, dated the 24th of July, 1789, in la Rocheterie and Beaucourt, Lettres de Marie Antoinette, ii.

Until she became queen she never slept a night away from her mother's room, and she was not allowed to converse with any grown-up person, friend, tutor or servant without the duchess of Kent or the Baroness Lehzen, her private governess, being present.

in 1827 made her a baroness of Hanover, and she continued as lady-inattendance after the duchess of Northumberland was appointed official governess in 1830, but actually performed the functions first of governess and then of private secretary till 1842, when she left the court and returned to Germany, where she died in 1870.

Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, Vogel the dancing master and his family, Belova, an old maiden lady, an inmate of the house, and many others such as Petya's tutors, the girls' former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the count's house than at home.

Recent films include The governess, with Minnie Driver as a young 19th century Sephardi woman on the Isle of Skye.

The Queen appointed a governess, Catherine Peebles, shortly before The Prince's fifth birthday.

Was he perhaps more foolish to hire the particular governess he did?

She was known to be a " French governess ", whatever that title means.

She was an English governess hired to teach King Mongkut's 67 children.

The new governess is due to arrive on the same day.

A young governess in London suspects that her employer who lives in the house next door is a killer.

I sent for my old governess, and she, give her her due, acted the part of a true friend.

governess cart drawn by a white pony.

From that day I ceased to be nursery governess, and became English teacher.

He then became infatuated with the family governess and ran off with her to Paris in the summer of 1870.

His wife Dasha has learned of his affair with the children's governess.

governess in the family of a gentleman who had come to live in the neighborhood.

governess of these offspring was Madame de Maintenon, who subsequently entered into a morganatic marriage with the monarch.

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Up to the age of ten he was taught at home by a governess and then he entered the local gymnasium.

Miss Morstan, could we secure her rights, would change from a needy governess to the richest heiress in England.

Marion Crawford, Queen Elizabeth's governess has told several stories about one particularly ill-tempered Corgi.

The governess gives her story to Douglas, who gives the story to the narrator, who then narrates the scene around the fire.

In 1539 they refused, on the plea of their privileges, to contribute to a general tax laid on Flanders, and when Charles's sister Mary, the governess of the Netherlands, seized some merchants as bail for the payment, they retaliated by driving out the nobles and the adherents of Charles's government.

She had a French governess, however, and at a later day picked up some Italian, German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more fluency than accuracy.

Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced?

In the upcoming months, expect to see more of Lopez in America's Darlings, The Governess, and Bridge and Tunnel.

Her governess is reading to her from a book without pictures; it's her history lesson.

Although the governess admonishes Alice to pay attention, Alice simply cannot help letting her mind wander.

She shouts and shouts at her sleeping self beyond the door, but it is her governess who wakens her at last, ending her adventures of Alice in Wonderland.

The plot features a young virginal woman newly arrived in an isolated location - usually a governess - who is menaced by unseen dangers.

The story started as a typical Gothic, with the young governess Victoria Winters arriving at Collinwood, ancestral home of the Collins family, who were the movers and shakers of the town of Collinsport.

This is the cane which made the Victorian governess a figure to be instantly obeyed.

It was Madame de Polignac who obtained the appointment of Calonne as controller-general of the finances,' and who succeeded Madame de Guemenee as "governess of the children of France" after the bankruptcy of the prince de Guemenee in 1782.4 Again, in response to Mercy and Joseph II.'s urgent representations, Marie Antoinette exerted herself on behalf of Austria in the affairs of the opening of the Scheldt (1783-1784) and the exchange of Bavaria (1785), in which, though she failed to provoke active interference on the part of France, she succeeded in obtaining the payment of considerable indemnities to Austria, a fact which led to the popular legend of her having sent millions to Austria, and aroused much indignation against her.