What is "schoolteacher"

Usage examples of "schoolteacher".

Belle Isle with two retired schoolteachers from Duluth who visited the island every summer to watch birds.

It was like being haunted by the ghost of an overstrict schoolteacher.

It was written in a neat Spencerian script that only a schoolteacher or the secretary of a Chamber of Commerce could have achieved.

Helen fetched Miss Travers, and the schoolteacher lifted Sophie to her feet.

Sophie saw the schoolteacher looking at her waved hair, her light blue gown, and she realized Miss Travers was seeking evidence of frivolity.

Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives.

North Countryman who was previously a schoolteacher in Essex and an English lecturer in Yorkshire before making his mark as an innovative voice in crime fiction, where his success enabled him to devote himself fulltime to writing.

Many wives often worked, military pay being what it was, but only as schoolteachers or secretaries to commanding officers, and always on the base or close to it.

They were responsible for the widespread myth that android schoolteachers hit their pupils, and they still revived that myth occasionally just in case there was anybody left who still doubted it.

Schoolteachers and professors were one of the largest sectors of the economy who found they simply could not survive on their salaries and so either tried to flee the country or found other employment.

About the Author Clayton Emery has been a blacksmith, a dishwasher, a schoolteacher in Australia, a carpenter, a zookeeper, a farmhand, a land surveyor, and a volunteer firefighter, among other things.

His parents were members of the Communist Party and consequently were fired from their jobs as New York City schoolteachers under the Feinberg Law, which prohibited teachers in New York State from advocating the overthrow of government by force, violence, or any unlawful means.

Her mother wasn't the schoolteacher who died from a lifetime of sucking cigarettes, but a queen of the line of Arianrod who first taught her about the stars and the quiet power of the moon.

And although Pete's tirade was laced with profanity (much of it decidedly Beaverish), his friend still sounded to Henry like an offended old lady schoolteacher, and this got him laughing again as he hauled up his britches.

Parvati gave a final pitiable little yelp and out he popped, while all over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro‑Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade‑unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches, and when the three contortionists had washed the baby and wrapped it in an old sari and brought it out for its father to see, at exactly the same moment, the word Emergency was being heard for the first time, and suspension‑of‑civil rights, and censorship‑of‑the‑press, and armoured‑units‑on‑special‑alert, and arrest‑of‑subversive‑elements.