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Battenburg, like some idiot choir-master, began to intone the Scout oath.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

He did not hesitate to criticize: a retiring choir-master said to his successor, "He is a tyrant, and you won't last three months."

Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati Warren Crocker Herrick

The choir-master showed his appreciation of his raw treasure by straining every nerve to make it as perfect as possible; and therefore he found more fault with Gottlieb than with any one else.

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With a glad heart, Gottlieb dressed the next morning before Lenichen was awake, and was off to the choir-master for his lesson alone.

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When the archduchess had asked for the mother of the little chorister with the heavenly voice, the choir-master had told her what touched her much about the widowed Magdalis and her two children; and old Ursula and the master between them contrived that Mother Magdalis should be at the banquet, hidden behind the tapestry.

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When fifteen he became voluntary organist and choir-master to the

The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

No, it will not, and yet the average choir-master will most assuredly be met with this objection or fear.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

"There are the choir-master and the dean and chapter, and the other choristers, and the Cistercians, and the mothers of the other choristers, who wish them to sing best."

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His youth was spent at Leipsic and Dresden; then he was choir-master at Wurzburg; next musical director at the Magdeburg theatre, conductor at Königsberg and at Riga.

Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

"The archduchess will be enraptured, and the Cistercians will be furious!" said the choir-master, equally pleased at both prospects.

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