Wackford Squeers in "Nicholas Nickleby" or Henry Brocklehurst in "Jane Eyre"

Usage examples of headmaster.

At present, in Great Britain at least, the headmasters entrusted with the education of the bulk of the influential men of the next decades are conspicuously second-rate men, forced and etiolated creatures, scholarship boys manured with annotated editions, and brought up under and protected from all current illumination by the kale-pot of the Thirty-nine Articles.

His father gave Hoyt his grimmest Vietnam search-and-destroy look and said he was going to the school tomorrow and lift the headmaster up by his shirtfront, if necessary, and tell him that this bullshit will cease.

The large headmaster rubbed a kerchief across his blotchy face, huffing and puffing almost continually as his bloated body tried to pull in enough air.

Headmaster of Macdonald Hall maintained his stern expression as Bruno and Boots left the office.

Breedy reckons the slogan was a threat and wanted us to go to the headmaster, but Breedy has been a nervous sort of man ever since there was a nasty accident when a car ran into his lorry nearly a year ago, and somebody got killed and others injured.

With the exception of captain bullen, he addressed every officer on the ship by his first name exactly as a public school headmaster would have addressed one of his more promising pupils, but a pupil that needed watching all the same.

Calla Kaczmarek, Captain Bates, Steve Reamer, and Headmaster Phador Al y Cassidro himself.

He accompanied the Headmaster to the cottage, where Mr Wyck was able to satisfy himself that matters were as dreadful as Mr Semple had indicated.

I saw the whole driveway abustle with small boys and their parents and their trunks and their tuck-boxes, and a man I took to be the Headmaster was swimming around among them shaking everybody by the hand.

It is true that Harry is often at odds with some of his teachers, but these particular teachers are not exactly admirable figures: they themselves are often at odds with the wise, benevolent, and powerful Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, whom they sometimes attempt to undermine or outflank.

But wise Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, decided it would be best that Harry not be raised amid the adulation he would surely receive in the wizarding world.

He might compare the trustworthy goodness of Albus Dumbledore to the infinitely superior goodness of God the Father, stressing that we can find the same kind of reassurance in God, and godly mentors, that Harry finds in his headmaster.

Minister, other than Fudge, was Albus Dumbledore, who preferred to be the headmaster of Hogwarts.

Headmaster of Wymondham College a coeducational state boarding and day school at least until the end of term.

Mario Incandenza sways down the steep path to the portcullis in the warm rain and interfaces with Clipperton through the bars and has the attendant hold the intercom-button down for him and personally requests that Clipperton be admitted under a special nonplay codicil to the regulations, saying the kid is truly in desperate psychic straits, Mario speaking first to Lateral Alice Moore and then to this prorector Cantrell and then to the Headmaster himself as Clipperton stares wordlessly up at the little wrought-iron racquet-heads that serve as spikes at the top of the portcullis and fencing around E.