pupil teacher

Example Sentences

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They tell me there's a new pupil teacher up to the school can answer questions like that while you're countin' his buttons.

From Shining Ferry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

One paragon, who could repeat the multiplication table, was immediately promoted to the position of pupil teacher.

From The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

Miss Farlow looked at the slip of paper from the pupil teacher: "Anne Lewis; disorderly; laughed aloud in the Sunday study class."

From Honey-Sweet by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

“Our pupil teacher quite distinguished herself today,” said Phillipa Rosewald, “though I must say it was in exceedingly bad taste.”

From The Girls at Mount Morris by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Any priggish pupil teacher could tell Dickens that there is no such phrase in English as “our mutual friend.”

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)