| But now she was standing behind the bench, looking down at me in a pose that was part schoolmarm and part Southern hanging judge. |
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| This credo of a particular order of comparative literature is like the hush of the schoolmarm enforcing a designed consensus at lesson's end. |
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| Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm. |
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| The problem with me is that when I talk about my mission, I sound deadly serious because I'm a former schoolmarm. |
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| He really was a little man: she glared down at him like a schoolmarm scolding a guilty child. |
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| It was an ice cream float gone guileful, a schoolmarm with a swagger. |
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| The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher. |
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| Free schools multiplied in the land, and the schoolmarm revealed all her immemorial preciosity. |
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| Nurse Mildred Ratched, brilliantly played by Louise Fletcher as a blankly implacable schoolmarm, argues back. |
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| Anna breaks up with Bruno after he has cheated on her with their son Boris's schoolmarm. |
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| The rhythms are by the Revolutionaries, a studio band, whose drummer, Sly Dunbar, is one of the main architects of reggae's blend of medicine-ball weight and schoolmarm restraint. |
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| The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent. |
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| You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance. |
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