schoolmaster
Example Sentences
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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
Putin barked “Speak directly!” at his trembling foreign spy chief, Sergei Naryshkin, who fumbled his words like a boy in front of a schoolmaster, eyes bulging with fear.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
“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
Across the subdued children’s heads Kit and Mercy faced their two visitors, Mr. Eleazer Kimberley, the schoolmaster, and the Reverend John Woodbridge.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
