| 31. | Faced with those kinds of scheduling headaches, Mitchell at times sounds more like a scolding schoolmarm than a powerful congressional leader.
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| 32. | Sally Jackson-Smith, a waitress with a schoolmarm's glare, went to the door to shoo them away.
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| 33. | Both have tidy hairstyles and stand as straight as schoolmarms; they're nice-looking but more mousy than snappy.
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| 34. | It was more schoolmarm than " Madame " in this collection, which paid attention to good cut and fabrics.
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| 35. | You have reduced me to a schoolmarm, at which I am uncomfortable because I am unaccustomed to treating adults as children.
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| 36. | Both have neatly coiffed hair and stand as straight as schoolmarms; they're nice-looking but more mousy than snappy.
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| 37. | Ina Boon stood at the church lectern and, like a sage schoolmarm, shared some lessons from her years in civil rights.
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| 38. | The proper schoolmarm who forwards sexually explicit jokes can distance herself from words that aren't, after all, her own.
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| 39. | It's easy to picture Nanci Griffith as a schoolmarm, bustling into classrooms with an autoharp and well-thumbed songbook.
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| 40. | A Harvard student dressed as a staid schoolmarm made Scorsese repeat the grammatically correct phrase " To whom are you speaking ?"
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