"Schoolma'am" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... miss, there's no one the boy has any claim on but me, and I ain't the proper person to bring him up. I thought some, last year, of sending him away to Frisco to school, but when they talked of bringing a schoolma'am here, I waited till I saw you, and then I knew it was all right, and I could keep my boy a little longer. And, oh! miss, he loves you so much; and if you could hear him talk about you in his pretty way, and if he could ask you what I ask you ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... school day after day, A "little schoolma'am" to obey, A little study—soon 'tis past, A little ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various
... your chicks a copy of the picture which I now send to you, and ask them to give you the one word which will express the meaning of it. You can tell them, as a clue, if you like, that by means of what the picture means they can find out what it means.—Truly your friend, THE LITTLE SCHOOLMA'AM. ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, April 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... I spends the next half-hour battin' my head to think of some first class food parlor where I could cart a couple like this Boston schoolma'am and Cousin Cornelia without shockin' 'em. There was the Martha Washington; but I knew I'd be barred there. Also there was some quiet fam'ly hotels I'd heard of up town; but I couldn't remember exactly what street any of 'em ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... a school room in his life; but it didn't follow that he did no studying for all that. On the contrary, he sat there, on the steps of his father's grocery store, with his chin between his little brown palms, doing up more thinking than the schoolma'am would have allowed, ...
— Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends • Fanny Fern |
