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
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
Kantorek had been our schoolmaster, a stern little man in a grey tail-coat, with a face like a shrew mouse.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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