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  • I can say Schoolmaster, which is a most respectable title.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Yes, probably the Schoolmaster was a notorious seditionist.

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • But I put my beliefs into a little book called The Schoolmaster, which made its way.

    Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • I can say Schoolmaster, which is a most respectable title.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • "Schoolmaster," Ascham explained how Socrates had described the anatomy of wit in a child, and the first essential quality mentioned by

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Verily, New England should treasure the memory of Ezekiel Cheever, the man who called himself "Schoolmaster," for she owes much to him.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

  • 'Schoolmaster's out after you, young gentleman,' said he, advising me to hurry along the road if I sought to baffle pursuit.

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • With that sage exclamation, he headed into the Browny days and breasted them; and he had about him the living foamy sparkle of the very time, until the Countess of Ormont breathed the word "Schoolmaster"; when, at once, it was dusty land where buoyant waters had been, and the armies of the facts, in uniform drab, with some feathers and laces, and a significant surpliced figure, decorously covering the wildest of

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • 'Schoolmaster's out after you, young gentleman,' said he, advising me to hurry along the road if I sought to baffle pursuit.

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • 'Schoolmaster's out after you, young gentleman,' said he, advising me to hurry along the road if I sought to baffle pursuit.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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