mistressy

No Martin I insist she plays a more Jane Austen school mistressy type, when back in the day, the only access to any real work for women was becoming a school governess and noone worried about the gender imbalance.

[middle age] how to become a bore 2009

Her temper was ruffled, she enforced silence with an imperative gesture, bade Dreda follow her to the study, and seated herself at her desk with her most severe and school-mistressy expression.

Etheldreda the Ready A School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

"I do not hope," she replied in her crisp, rather school-mistressy way.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

She’s school-mistressy, Lindsay’s accurate verdict, and her voice is very English.

Archive 2009-03-01 Jean 2009

She’s school-mistressy, Lindsay’s accurate verdict, and her voice is very English.

Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

The best thing you can say about the personhood of the fetus is that it’s a grey area, which is why I don’t think it should trump a woman’s mastery mistressy? over her own body.

Should male legislators decide if abortion is legal? 2004

* But now allow me to repeat to you an in3tance of vulgar cjobd sense in a little fanner in this neive to match the faultf of low life by those of ihe liigher classes; or e\%Cy prompted by a love of justice, we give the couilter-part of this impiety of farmer D, in the reply 'of Sir E W — — to his father lifien, viifttmg hm «n the Joss of his mistressy he said * So E, I hear you have lost your friead/* Yes/replied

The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline Laetitia Matilda Hawkins 1812