Priggish old-time teacher

Usage examples of schoolmarm.

Rudy still had much to learn about coldhearted women with pale schoolmarm eyes.

Some are of the purple-haired, earringed sort, while others are of the vacationing schoolmarm variety as well as assorted types between the two extremes.

She was a small Gambian woman who kept her kinky hair in a long braid that fell to the small of her back and tended to dress like a Midwestern schoolmarm from some old B-western.

It is a lesson as hard to learn for the somewhat-well-to-do as it is for the humblest stevedore, or the most straight-laced schoolmarm.

He looked across at her now, at the thin, scarred face with pale schoolmarm eyes, the witchlike straggle of sloppily braided hair.

I said something to that effect just before you threw your badge in my face and lit out like a schoolmarm seven unwashed sheepherders were out to screw.

When you said newspaper reporter, schoolmarm, or army wife, it didn't sound half as suggestive as a Kiowa halfbreed in her teens packing her own gun.

Started right in lecturing again, just like a schoolmarm in a class for the mentally handicapped.

Barbara had done graduate work in Middle English before the fighting, and was as precise a grammarian as any schoolmarm ever born.

After all, what is the probable effect of a book which irrelevantly abuses every English institution, rapturizes over the "wisdom of the East" like an American schoolmarm on a conducted tour, and mixes up pleas for Indian freedom with pleas for surrender to Hitler?

Among these were the Yankee schoolmarms who had come South im­bued with the desire to uplift the Negro and the Scalawags who had been born good Democrats but had turned Republican after the surrender.

She heard Kerick mutter something about droid schoolmarms, which she found decidedly irritating.