What is "schoolmaster"

Usage examples of "schoolmaster".

She had lived several years a servant with a schoolmaster, who, discovering a great quickness of parts in the girl, and an extraordinary desire of learning- for every leisure hour she was always found reading in the books of the scholars- had the good-nature, or folly- just as the reader pleases to call it- to instruct her so far, that she obtained a competent skill in the Latin language, and was, perhaps, as good a scholar as most of the young men of quality of the age.

But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

He had failed as yet in getting any positive evidence that there was any relation between Elsie and the schoolmaster other than such as might exist unsuspected and unblamed between a teacher and his pupil.

Many nights Adams worked with him, happily playing the schoolmaster again and with his star pupil.

Dalip Amrit, the tactful one-time schoolmaster from Normork who was his private secretary, and bustling, hyperefficient Singobinda Mukund, the master of the household, a ruddy-faced Ni-moyan, and Countess Auranga of Bibiroon, who served as his official hostess in the absence of any consort.

As the vice tightened, Catholics were explicitly forbidden to keep not only Catholic servants but a Catholic schoolmaster: since every master had to have a licence to teach.

I went to Biggar, in Clydesdale, where I knew the schoolmaster was an approved classical scholar.

Father Warmand and Father Radulf were the only canons who were free of duties here, or in the outlying parishes, that evening, and they were the first to arrive, followed by Lukin Dulpain, Master Peter the schoolmaster, Alvin Bisemare, and many other of the townsfolk, including, of course, Edwin Warrener, who brought what could only be described as a bouquet of conies and daffodils, all arranged in one great bunch, for Mistress Mayngod, towards whom, according to Lukin, he nurtured certain intentions.

He was the local schoolmaster in the nearest township downcountry and was of a superior and, it would emerge, cantankerous disposition.

Chapter 3 The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle My reader may please to remember he hath been informed that Jenny Jones had lived some years with a certain schoolmaster, who had, at her earnest desire, instructed her in Latin, in which, to do justice to her genius, she had so improved herself, that she was become a better scholar than her master.

Tarzan and Juarez, like a schoolmaster who dares his pupils to contradict him.

If in spite of that he did not relax in them, and made the question his lifework, though it naturally became more hopeless from year to year, that only shows on the one hand how powerful an effect the appearance of the giant mole was capable of producing, and on the other how much laborious effort and fidelity to his convictions may be found in an old and obscure village schoolmaster.

Hiramus looked like an old-fashioned schoolmaster down to the mortarboard, round spectacles and robe with half-sleeves over a hollow chest and a little pot belly.

That was not the way he put the question,--but whether she would take seriously to this schoolmaster, and if she did, what would be the neatest and surest and quickest way of putting a stop to all that nonsense.

He went to the lawyer in the rue de Paon, to the schoolmaster, and found the same uncertainty, the same ignorance.