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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the age of twenty-four she was free to seek work outside the home, finding temporary positions as amanuensis and governess .
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Edith died in 1871 and Maud and her sister Kathleen were cared for by a nurse and governess .
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Finding teaching too confining, she gave up a post as a governess in 1895.
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He painted Commonwealth Avenue, governesses and chil-dren in the snow.
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His sisters return to their positions as governesses, and Jane goes to live in a cottage by the school.
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She professed to have been a cook in a house where I was once governess .
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When I was last here I had spent time talking with Dalim Das, once a governess with a wealthy family.
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When the children become only more wild, the Bloomfields blame their governess , and Agnes is let go after one year.