Sentences with governess
gov·ern·ess
G g - Charlotte was an obscure, ugly parson's daughter, a sometime governess and school mistress.
- Picture her, deathly pale in the Dickensian governess's gown she wears on the cover, fingering an upright piano cluttered with portraits of dead relatives.
- But Dame Julie, who won a best actress Academy Award for her role as the governess in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.
- A mysterious governess who possesses a magic walking stick.
- Events conspire to take her to northern Queensland, where she works as a governess at a wealthy property.