schoolmaster

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In Silber’s revival, the wise schoolmaster Mr. Lundie is Widow Lundie, and the town flirt Meg Brockie is a pub owner pushing middle age.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

The Post likened him to Ichabod Crane, the fictional schoolmaster in the Washington Irving short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Her mother was born the daughter of a Methodist schoolmaster but was orphaned and taken in by a Muslim man who prayed five times a day.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

With the war’s end on the horizon, FDR used the occasion to quote “my old schoolmaster, Dr. Peabody … that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2020

In 1924 Mallory was thirty-eight, a married schoolmaster with three young children.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer