Monitress


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Mon´i`tress


n.1.A female monitor.
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Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.
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Fortunately, his monitress, though by no means of the purest water, knew better than to suffer her eleve to commit so gross a blunder, and I escaped the calamity of making my first appearance at court under the auspices of such a patron.
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That I will, Adele;" and I hastened away with her, glad to quit my gloomy monitress.
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