inspectress

As for the patriarchy, I'm a building inspectress, and I'm married to a guy with major medical problems who plays them like Yitzhak Perlman plays the fiddle.

AFK Bardiac 2009

A pious and zealous wife might be as useful as myself; nay, she might be much more so among my female parishioners, who greatly want an inspectress.

Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen

When the inspectress came round again she expressed her satisfaction.

My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884

The inspectress moved away again, and when the veal was served my portion found its way to the plate of Dolores.

My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884

The inspectress was passing by just at that moment.

My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884

Any one wishing to give anything to the support of the hospice must do so only to the director, the official who appoints the apartments, the dean or the cappellani, or to the inspectress of the daughters of Oropa, but they must have a receipt for even the smallest sum; alms-boxes, however, are placed here and there, into which the smaller offerings may be dropped (we imagine this means anything under a franc).

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

I call our shepherdess Honorine even though perhaps not infallibly naming the sociable soubrette who might, with all her gay bold confidence, have been an official inspectress in person, and to whose easy care or, more particularly, expert sensibility and candour of sympathy and curiosity, our flock was freely confided.

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

"The government of the laundry," so runs the statute on this head, "and analogous domestic services are entrusted to a competent number of ladies of sound constitution and good conduct, who live together in the hospice under the direction of an inspectress, and are called daughters of Oropa."

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

Any one wishing to give anything to the support of the hospice must do so only to the director, the official who appoints the apartments, the dean or the cappellani, or to the inspectress of the daughters of Oropa, but they must have a receipt for even the smallest sum; alms-boxes, however, are placed here and there into which the smaller offerings may be dropped

Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

We have been fortunate in our chief inspectress of babies.

An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867