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Meanings of headmistress in English

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Usage of headmistress in English
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The headmistress's footsteps came halfway down the hall toward us, then stopped.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
2
When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country.
Ebony
3
Reading the riot act is best done by the headmistress, don't you think?
Unfinished desires: a novel
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The headmistress looked troubled for the first time since Saturday's horrors.
Report for Murder
5
The excitement was intense, though awe for the headmistress forbade anybody to speak.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
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The audience, though, was rapt; the headmistress beside me scribbled furiously.
The Guardian
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But the headmistress's attention had shifted to the exam booklet on Tildy's lap.
Unfinished desires: a novel
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I had just become headmistress of the academy when this occurred.
Unfinished desires: a novel
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Her headmistress at Brighton urged that she should go to Girton.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
10
So rude! she said in the voice of their old headmistress.
East of the sun
11
When the headmistress is offered a bowl, she makes the cutlass movement again.
The Guardian
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As was her custom, the headmistress dispensed first with the institutional loose ends.
Unfinished desires: a novel
13
At eleven o'clock she received a summons to the headmistress's study.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
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Perhaps Meredith was cooking gruel, like an evil headmistress in a Dickens novel.
Unbelievable
15
And the headmistress said she wouldn't be able to do anything to stop it.
Crossings
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How many times do I have do tell you? came the headmistress's deep voice.
In a gilded cage
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