Then these four diverged into various varieties of the game, in all of which Madge was Frank King's champion and instructress; and he was very grateful to her, and tried to do his best, though he was chiefly engaged in thinking that her clear blue-gray eyes were so singularly like Nan's eyes.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
She had called her physical culture instructress a "cat" that morning, only because she had been afraid to enter into a more drastic physical argument with her.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
But in those early days the artificial effort at perfect propriety of expression was still perceptible, and produced an impression of affectation, perhaps reflecting that of her revered instructress.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind