schoolmaster

Example Sentences

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A former schoolmaster who, because of a small inheritance, has been able to retire to the country, Hopkins is vain, envious of others, accustomed to his domestic comforts and utterly self-centered.

From Washington Post

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

He elevates those dismissed, as William Butler Yeats wrote, by "the noisy set of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen the martyrs call the world" to heroic status.

From Salon

Mr Fabius, with the air of a firm but respected schoolmaster, was able to encourage and cajole reluctant countries towards a historic compromise.

From BBC

“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