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Little, however, has been known about the shy schoolmaster who produced these works, some of which he wrote with his brother.
In the end, after the passing of several years, now matured and transformed into an educated young woman, she marries the schoolmaster.
Where, or from whom, has Jenny learned better Latin than the schoolmaster who taught her the language?
The crowd lets out from the play and among them is Mr. Cyril Fielding, the schoolmaster at the government college.
There were so many ridiculous penalties for body contact and roughing that I felt like the referee was playing schoolmaster to the players.
But in the end the film feels closer to a rambled lecture by a schoolmaster punch-drunk on self-importance.
As Becky goes into the schoolhouse, she notices that the schoolmaster has left his desk key in the lock on the drawer.
Frank spoke about dear memories of his former schoolmaster and about the school trips and adoration of football they both shared.
His old schoolmaster called by and launched into an analysis of American politics.
At the age of about 11, I was taught by a schoolmaster who practised all these techniques, and had even devised a few extra.
And despite a police appeal the monument from the family grave of Robert, the village schoolmaster for almost 40 years, was not returned.
His career was as short as it was spectacular and he later emigrated to Australia where he pursued a career as schoolmaster and journalist.
The schoolmaster was a very poor student of English, so he asked the parish priest if he could help in the matter.
The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
As a consequence, the schoolmaster forbids the sport in the school premises.
He became a schoolmaster until his first West End success with a Chekhovian domestic drama about an insurance salesman incapable of fulfilling his own dreams of a better life.
Seventy years ago an Eton schoolmaster dotingly built his soprano wife a bijou opera-house beside the country pile he inherited on the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne.
Because schools were crying out for teachers, he was hired as a primary schoolmaster.
He had thrashed the schoolmaster in consequence of being placed too far away from the fire.
Mallory, a 37-year-old schoolmaster at Charterhouse, had already proven himself at climbing at high altitude.
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When he was barely in his teens, the village schoolmaster tasked him with writing a speech to mark Israel's independence day.
It seems that the slovenly teenager, not to mention the purse-lipped schoolmaster, is at least 4,000 years old.
Let us then, rather than playing the schoolmaster, have some respect for the efforts already made and accurately assess what remains to be done.
Madam President, I rise not merely as a Member of this House but also as a former schoolmaster.
It is not for the European Union to be the schoolmaster and give lessons to Russia.
These included payment of rent to the Crown and the provision of land on each lot for a school and schoolmaster.
The person who made cricket very popular in Canada was a young English schoolmaster named George A. Barber.
The first is the schoolmaster attitude: to exert pressure on China to comply.
His father's a schoolmaster, a philomath, as one might say.
Six years later Ellen, after deducting 10 years from her actual age, married a schoolmaster and became the mother of two.
Likewise, it could be an indication that this first Training College had fulfilled its purpose and had met the requests of all those parish priests of the Rheims archdiocese who desired a schoolmaster for their parish.
As her father's schoolmaster income was too modest for maintaining a big family and supporting Hilda's studies, the tutoring of young students became her main after-school activity and source of income.
In 1798, Stephen Burroughs, a thievish New England schoolmaster with a nasty weakness for seducing his young charges, found himself in prison in Worcester, Mass.
I do not want to play the schoolmaster here, but if you are willing to do your homework and send us the results of your inquiries, I promise to read what you send us.
The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm Whales.
He requested the help of his schoolmaster, Philip Burton, but his voice cracked during their practice sessions.
She was the first of nine children of Robert Taba, a schoolmaster. Hilda was first educated at her father's elementary school, and then at the local parish school.
The bribe asked by a schoolmaster to enrol a family's daughter in the 'free' elementary school means a girl's education and opportunities may be irreversibly blocked.
I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.
A further penalty of ten pounds a month was inflicted on anyone keeping a schoolmaster who did not attend the Protestant service.
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He was mainly remembered as being an incompetent schoolmaster unable to keep order in class.
He played Inigo Jollifant, a young schoolmaster who abandons teaching to join a travelling theatre troupe.
He returned to England in 1585 and to the Church of England, being employed as a schoolmaster and parish priest.
An older brother, Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, became an author and schoolmaster.
Lothaire, clearly based on Albert Camus, is driven, first by a schoolmaster and then by his own ambition, to leave Algeria for mainland France. Both are tormented men.
And with no negative response from my friend, his schoolmaster.
The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover.
Roger Hieron was a schoolmaster who was convinced by the martyrologist John Foxe to leave teaching and become a clergyman.
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England.
John Aubrey reported that Shakespeare had been a country schoolmaster.
Biographer Robert DeMaria believed that Tourette syndrome likely made public occupations like schoolmaster or tutor almost impossible for Johnson.
He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.
At the age of eight, Mill began studying Latin, the works of Euclid, and algebra, and was appointed schoolmaster to the younger children of the family.
Examples from Classical Literature
The politician, however, is still apt to intellectualise impulse as completely as the schoolmaster did fifty years ago.
Had no schoolmaster in moments of heroic enthusiasm attempted to pound a few rules of rhetoric through my incrassate skull?
The schoolmaster wrote out the envelope, as usual, but the maggid did not post the letter.
Please forgive me for ranting like a schoolmaster, and please don't cry like that.
They made their adieux, and the schoolmaster, opening his door, peered out.
I gave a great shout, for in the men I recognized Aitken and the schoolmaster Wardlaw.
His magisterial brow, for he was alcade as well as schoolmaster, relaxed into a civil smile.
The schoolmaster glanced at me inquiringly and I corroborated the lad's accusation.
He has a most surprising memory, and is quite the pride of his schoolmaster.
Jack, life is a great schoolmaster, but why does it take so long to drub any sense into these blockheads of ours?
Having thus qualified himself to be a schoolmaster, he went back to Dubrovnik and settled down to that profession.
He was born and educated at Ealing, in Middlesex, where his father was a schoolmaster.
In his dormitory at school was a boy who had enuresis, and who was being fined and punished by the schoolmaster.
He is the schoolmaster at Nain, and his wife Frederika is seated at his right hand.
Rushbrook opened it, and Mr Furness, the schoolmaster, made his appearance.
I may also just add, that we have finally arranged with our new schoolmaster from Shiraz.
Paul lay down on the blankets beside the schoolmaster, and in a couple of minutes was off to slumberland.
She read 'Alton Locke,' and by way of comment married a national schoolmaster, the son of a brickmaker on her father's estate!
There was little self-consciousness in the manner of the schoolmaster and Janice.
My reader may not know who a Tunker was, as our wandering schoolmaster was called.
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But so long as he lived the schoolmaster was twitted about the lady who threw him over.
It was a little lame schoolmaster, Tyrtaeus, who aroused the Spartans by his poetry and led them to victory against the foe.
A word must also be said about the opposition to reform of the vested interest of the classical and coercive schoolmaster.
John Jenkin, a schoolmaster in Pembrokeshire, was a conjuror of renown in that part of Wales.
Tom is a schoolmaster in Rochdale, and he and Will help to support their mother.
The schoolmaster took up his lamp again and walked to the door.
She told him so, and they embraced, and walked on and came up with the schoolmaster.
Even you, Charley, my boy, would have felt some respect for the chair if you had seen it occupied by this famous schoolmaster.
He's a schoolmaster and a barrister and a poet and heaven knows what not.
The wandering minstrel is the principal schoolmaster in the Caucasus.
His name is Owen Ford, and he's a newspaper man, and it seems he's a grandson of the schoolmaster who built this house.
The schoolmaster never ceased averring that it was the brightest lad he had ever seen.
Then she and the schoolmaster, by one accord, began to laugh.
They laughed together, and the schoolmaster rose to light his lamp.
The schoolmaster hesitated, and turned the lamp-wick up and down.
Handkerchiefs for the schoolmaster, stockings and gloves for Solon!
My dear Mortimer, one would think the schoolmaster had left behind him a catechizing infection.
The poor schoolmaster motioned to the bachelor that he would come on the other side, and speak to him.
Mr. Marriott did not agree with the schoolmaster as to The Wooden Horse.
I catch myself conning over old lines and verses I heard the schoolmaster reciting sixty years ago.
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The brook was searched, but the body of the schoolmaster was not to be discovered.
Kuvalda loses his mainstay when his comrade, the schoolmaster, dies.
The darling of his desires was, to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster.
My father was a schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent education.
A word or two concerning a squire, and more relating to a gamekeeper and a schoolmaster.
The schoolmaster was sitting at his high desk, with his back to me, apparently haranguing the pupils, who were all gathered together in front of him, with one exception.
She might have been a schoolmaster criticizing a child's essay.
In the afternoon the red-faced schoolmaster told Kim that he had been 'struck off the strength', which conveyed no meaning to him till he was ordered to go away and play.
When Jason, the son of the dethroned King of Iolchos, was a little boy, he was sent away from his parents, and placed under the queerest schoolmaster that ever you heard of.
And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.
Whatever money the schoolmaster possessed, and he had received his quarter's pay but a day or two before, he must have had about his person at the time of his disappearance.
Mr Bradley Headstone, highly certificated stipendiary schoolmaster, drew his right forefinger through one of the buttonholes of the boy's coat, and looked at it attentively.
This is the way we inculcate strength of mind, Mr Nickleby,' said the schoolmaster, turning to Nicholas, and speaking with his mouth very full of beef and toast.
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from the schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
