Crossword-Solution: SCHOOLMA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

With spurious cheerfulness she announced everywhere, “I guess I'm a born spinster,” and “No one will ever marry a plain schoolma'am like me,” and “You men, great big noisy bothersome creatures, we women wouldn't have you round the place, dirtying up nice clean rooms, if it wasn't that you have to be petted and guided.

Poor Bridget, or Biddy, our red-armed maid of all work! What must she do but buy a small copper breast-pin and put it under “Schoolma’am’s” plate that morning, at breakfast? And Schoolma’am would wear it,—though I made her cover it, as well as I could, with a tea-rose.

Weary looked at her also, but he did not smile, because she looked a little like his own schoolma'am, Miss Ruty Satterly--and the resemblance hurt a sore place in his heart.

The--er--conceit of these New England schoolma'ams, and their--er--evident Jesuitical influence over the young, is fraught, sir, fraught with--er--darkly political significance.

Fust-rate little filly;-he said.--Pootiest and nicest little chap I've seen since the schoolma'am left.