dominie
Example Sentences
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In 1966, she took over from Vanessa Redgrave as Muriel Spark's mind-bending dominie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Wyndham's theatre.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2011
Then one day the dominie came calling to ask why Harry had not been in school for quite a while.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its gist: A dispirited dominie is cheered on Christmas Eve by remembering that at the Last Supper, Christ offered the wine to Judas Iscariot.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in his own home, he was a dominie indeed.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is—or they are—more wealthy than before, and they read things, you know, and are a power in Parliament, and are something in the dominie sort to those other classes above and below.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
