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
He’s presenting as one of those British schoolmaster guys, he’s playing up to that type.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
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
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
That was not the way the schoolmaster enforced discipline.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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