A governess might be a servant, but she was a privileged one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Escape]

The governess was a strong, generous woman, a musician by nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

Their governess is a Miss Burnet, an Englishwoman of forty or thereabouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge] Reference

If she chooses to pass it over to a nurse or governess, that is her affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart and Soul by Maveric Post] Reference

The governess was a tightly corseted young woman of unremarkable appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dressmaker] Reference

The nurse in charge was in uniform, the governess was a much put-upon person.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

Many a governess is a discontented person, who thinks she is worthy of better things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart and Soul by Maveric Post] Reference

Mrs. Tempest always called her governess Maria when she was anxious to conciliate her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume I.] Reference

The new governess, that is to be, has been to see my plans, etc. My dear Ellen, Good-bye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference

The prosecutor called a governess who testified that as a child of five, Marguerite often lied.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Sometimes Fatal Consequences of Entering Into Madame Steinheil's Bedchamber] Reference

As her governess was away visiting a sick relative, Miss Lucy did the honours of the schoolroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances] Reference

But a governess is a governess; -- and for a man in Frank's position such a marriage would be simply suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference

Herald, sir, "she said positively," and many a time have I read of a governess, which is no more than a servant, marrying an earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Passage] Reference

'We'll find a nice kind of governess ourselves, Bobby.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

"I'll do that," Tomato-hair said, obviously the 'governess' about whom the young PC had spoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traitor to Memory]

"A governess is the very last person we could dispense with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life] Reference

"But I cannot admit that you are what may be called a governess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie] Reference

"You don't mean to say you did!" said the new "governess" amazed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Bush Maid] Reference

Oh, no, no, "said Lucy, laughing;" a governess is a lady to teach you. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe] Reference

"If I choose to take a situation as a governess, that is my business only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ungrateful Governess]

The children were brought up in a detached cottage, under the care of a "governess".    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Sliprails] Reference

"And I would never entertain the idea of marrying a governess.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirror Must Out] Reference

She had been governess in the home of Madame Hanska since 1824.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

"But they say there are bears in the woods," cried the governess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

And, of course, Mongkut invited a British governess to teach in his court.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Royal Treatment] Reference

"No governess could teach my child as you could, milady, nor could she protect her as you will.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mirror Must Out] Reference