Schoolmaster in a sentence

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.

Born in 1894, he served in the Royal Navy during World War One and was appointed temporary acting warrant schoolmaster in 1917.

In 1763, the Rev. Alexander Garden, as rector and schoolmaster, reported the school was flourishing.

According to Padilla, it was in Litoměřice—a town that was once part of Austria then Czechoslovakia—that Philippine hero Dr. Jose Rizal solidified a friendship with Ferdinand Blumentritt, who was a schoolmaster there.

Away from cricket John Martin had a long and successful career as a schoolmaster joining the staff at College in Berkshire in 1966 where he remained until he retired as deputy head in 2002.

This week, the South African Lipizzaners introduce schoolmaster Favory Celia.

After learning the purpose of Spotty Powder, the humourless, smug Miranda Piker and her equally humourless father (a schoolmaster) are enraged and disappear into the Spotty Powder room to sabotage the machine.

As a schoolmaster, he had published a considerable number of pedagogic and philological programs.

At one school, he lived at his schoolmaster's home.

Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 94. Because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, Eusebius was sometimes called Eusebius Pamphili: "Eusebius, son of Pamphilus".

Bruckner's grandfather was appointed schoolmaster in Ansfelden in 1776; this position was inherited by Bruckner's father, Anton Bruckner senior, in 1823.

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. : : Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

He returned to Maryville in 1812, and at age 19 was hired for a term as schoolmaster of a one-room schoolhouse in Blount County between his town and Knoxville.

He was mainly remembered as being an incompetent schoolmaster unable to keep order in class.

His father was a Russian Orthodox priest and schoolmaster, and his mother a musician.

In 1647, Massachusetts passed a law that required towns to hire a schoolmaster to teach writing.

In rural communities this obliged local landowners (heritors) to provide a schoolhouse and pay a schoolmaster, while ministers and local presbyteries oversaw the quality of the education.

It did not appear in the literature until used in 1887 by schoolmaster Hermann Schiller in a two-volume handbook on the Roman Empire (Geschichte der Römischen Kaiserzeit), to wit: "die diokletianische Tetrarchie".

It was a collection of 34 Latin motets dedicated to the Queen herself, accompanied by elaborate prefatory matter including poems in Latin elegiacs by the schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster and the young courtier Ferdinand Heybourne (aka Richardson).

It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on the distribution of the parts, on the masks and dresses, and on the machinery of the ancient stage, as well as a dissertation on the masks of the Furies in 1801.