schoolmaster
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The yarn turns on the ambitions of Ichabod Crane, an awkward local schoolmaster, who pursues Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful daughter of a prosperous farmer of Dutch descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
A former schoolmaster who, because of a small inheritance, has been able to retire to the country, Hopkins is vain, envious of others, accustomed to his domestic comforts and utterly self-centered.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
“The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2021
The life of a shy English schoolmaster brightens when he falls in love with a music-hall singer who becomes his wife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
“Did the schoolmaster make thee promise never to smile?”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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