dame-school

The huge prevalence of texting, the internet, instant messaging and social networking means – however much dame-school grumps may deplore the fractured grammar and emoticons – the generation emerging is more engaged with the written word than any in living memory.

Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books 2011

The voice described the subject's subsequent dame-school education, and the private tutor who had been hired when the subject was seven to prepare him for higher learning at Oxford.

The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

Then I was sent to a dame-school kept by an old woman65 who stood us in rows and had a long stick like a billiard cue to get at the back rows.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Then I was sent to a dame-school kept by an old woman65 who stood us in rows and had a long stick like a billiard cue to get at the back rows.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Then I was sent to a dame-school kept by an old woman65 who stood us in rows and had a long stick like a billiard cue to get at the back rows.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Then I was sent to a dame-school kept by an old woman65 who stood us in rows and had a long stick like a billiard cue to get at the back rows.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Then I was sent to a dame-school kept by an old woman65 who stood us in rows and had a long stick like a billiard cue to get at the back rows.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Then I was sent to a dame-school kept by an old woman65 who stood us in rows and had a long stick like a billiard cue to get at the back rows.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The mistress of the dame-school at Clermont recognised in the

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.

XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844 1909