schoolmaster
Example Sentences
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But unlike those later writers—elites who served as government functionaries—Felix is merely “the son of a poor schoolmaster.”
“Didn’t you hear anything at the funeral? He was the old schoolmaster before Miss Myrt’s time. Ten foot tall in his clawhammer coat.”
From Literature
The Post likened him to Ichabod Crane, the fictional schoolmaster in the Washington Irving short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
He’s presenting as one of those British schoolmaster guys, he’s playing up to that type.
From Los Angeles Times
He frisked him to make sure he was unarmed and, like a schoolmaster taking a disobedient student by the collar, marched him away from the barn.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
