schoolmistressy

‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away.

cover up 2008

‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away.

boss 2008

He was sure she was going to point out to him in schoolmistressy fashion that he had already had it in hardcover, she quite distinctly remembered, and why on earth did he want another copy.

Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000

Hen she smiled her sad, schoolmistressy smile and shook her finger at him.

The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984

Hen she smiled her sad, schoolmistressy smile and shook her finger at him.

the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984

With her fingertips pressed against the edge of the table as if she meant to push herself away from their fatuous com­pany, Vivian lectured them in a schoolmistressy voice.

The Old Silent Grimes, Martha 1973

Although her hard schoolmistressy manner remained, she was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

As the years passed by she would become staid and prim; schoolmistressy manner; the girls would speak of her by derisive nicknames ...

A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887