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Schoolma'am   Listen
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Schoolma'am  n.  A schoolmistress. (Colloq.U.S.)






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"Schoolma'am" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Miss Oliver, one December evening, when she, Mrs. Blythe, and Susan were busy sewing or knitting in the cosy living-room. "This war is at least extending my knowledge of geography. Schoolma'am though I am, three months ago I didn't know there was such a place in the world such as Lodz. Had I heard it mentioned I would have known nothing about it and cared as little. I know all about it now—its size, its standing, its military ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... a nice nose, and above it twinkled a pair of warm brown eyes with humorous little wrinkles, around them; and still above them fluffed a kinky-curly mass of brown hair. Weary looked at her also, but he did not smile, because she looked a little like his own schoolma'am, Miss Ruty Satterly—and the resemblance hurt a sore place ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower



Words linked to "Schoolma'am" :   schoolteacher, schoolmistress



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