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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But headmistress Helen Williams won't be reaching for the champagne glasses or festive bunting.
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If you accept her at Lowood school, please make sure that the headmistress and teachers know how dishonest she is.
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She clasped her hands in a prayerful attitude, the gesture of a headmistress or a nun dismissing a mischief-maker.
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She herself hardly knew the headmistress , but Margarett, in time, came to know her very well.
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The letter from the headmistress and governors of the primary school shocked Scarlet.
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The managers carefully channelled resentment towards the county council, who, they suggested, were in league with their headmistress .
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Yet the headmistress believes it's a poor way to judge quality.