Peel portrayer

Usage examples of rigg.

That was Miss Rigg, the English lady who had been a governess in London until she retired to and West Country ten years ago.

I had long left school, I still went to Miss Rigg for lessons three afternoons each week.

Miss Rigg and Granny that I had never really talked in the true Cornish way.

And then my lessons with Miss Rigg, which began well before I left school, helped to prevent me having too strong a Cornish accent and manner of speech.

There was no lesson with Miss Rigg, but I had quite a lot of washing in the hamper, and I had promised myself that I would turn out the attic room this week because I had missed that earlier in the year when I was spring-cleaning.

I went to see Miss Rigg, and asked if she thought I could get a job as a governess.

Whether or not I should ever have got started I shall never know, for three days after I spoke to Miss Rigg there came an event which changed everything, and which was to lead me into a different life, where I would know great happiness and great distress, a life in which strange shadows from the past would loom over me and blot out the sun, so that amid mystery and danger I would suffer torments of doubt, not knowing friend from enemy, or in whom I could put my trust.

Miss Rigg had warned me many times that to be inquisitive was a great fault in anybody, particularly a young lady.

I kept seeing their faces one after the other, and I kept going over the conversation in the garden, to make sure I had spoken and behaved in the correct way, as Miss Rigg had taught me.

I had spoken of how much something cost, which Miss Rigg had told me many times was impolite.

I never ceased to be thankful for all the hours I had spent in conversation practice with Miss Rigg, for I am sure it was this which gave me confidence.

There were some exercise books I had used for lessons with Miss Rigg, and there were certificates of births, deaths, and marriages.

He saw your vicar there, a woman called Miss Rigg, and several others.

I closed my mind, setting my teeth and starting to recite in my head all the Shakespeare speeches that Miss Rigg had set me to learn over the years.

Miss Rigg had once lectured me somewhat bitterly on this subject, and I guessed later that she had been speaking from an unhappy experience in her own youth.