drillmaster

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The flamboyant “colonel,” as Forbes styled himself, struck Brown as the perfect drillmaster for the volunteer force he planned to train.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 19, 2011

Thus the precise drillmaster came to grips with the wielder of superlative power.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first surprise of Bandung was that they spoke with many voices and accepted no drillmaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

General Stewart was an ideal superintendent in such a conception: 31 years an infantryman, an expert and exacting drillmaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

They afterwards removed to Paris, occupying the house in which Robespierre had once lived, and here FitzGerald had for his drillmaster one of Napoleon’s Old Guard. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis