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  • There was something so imperative and masterful about him that I was quite beside myself — “rattled,” as Furuseth would have termed it, like a quaking child before a stern school-master.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • My father was a school-master in Chesterfield, where I received an excel -: lent education.

    Sole Music 2010

  • It is not only to make and unmake presidents and parties, institutions and reputations; but it must regulate the minutest details of our daily lives, and be school-master, preacher, lawgiver, judge, jury, executioner, and policeman in one grand combination …

    Media 2007

  • It is not only to make and unmake presidents and parties, institutions and reputations; but it must regulate the minutest details of our daily lives, and be school-master, preacher, lawgiver, judge, jury, executioner, and policeman in one grand combination …

    Media 2007

  • It is not only to make and unmake presidents and parties, institutions and reputations; but it must regulate the minutest details of our daily lives, and be school-master, preacher, lawgiver, judge, jury, executioner, and policeman in one grand combination …

    Media 2007

  • In the same novel the grotesque body of the Dominie or school-master acquires a complementary significance.

    Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism 2006

  • Its justification in becoming school-master lies in the necessity of making out of the raw material of life citizens who shall be productive factors in the national wealth and conservators of its order.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Its justification in becoming school-master lies in the necessity of making out of the raw material of life citizens who shall be productive factors in the national wealth and conservators of its order.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Its justification in becoming school-master lies in the necessity of making out of the raw material of life citizens who shall be productive factors in the national wealth and conservators of its order.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Its justification in becoming school-master lies in the necessity of making out of the raw material of life citizens who shall be productive factors in the national wealth and conservators of its order.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

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