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If violence breeds violence, surely Scottish school discipline should be a marvel, given that the dominie's tawse went out in the 1970s (I was talking at the weekend to a native of Fife, who remembered abolition and the worst behaved boy in the school asking for (and being given) the headmaster's tawse as a souvenir).

Archive 2004-07-11 Laban 2004

If violence breeds violence, surely Scottish school discipline should be a marvel, given that the dominie's tawse went out in the 1970s (I was talking at the weekend to a native of Fife, who remembered abolition and the worst behaved boy in the school asking for (and being given) the headmaster's tawse as a souvenir).

To Every Little Action .... Laban 2004

If things git too black around jest slip over to the dominie's leetle house and hev a talk with him.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

"Do you think the dominie's opposition hurt your entertainment much?"

A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

Tombs is a black offence, but a dominie's a dominie all the world over.

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

In heavy spates the children were conveyed to the old school, as they are still to the new one, in carts, and between it and the dominie's whitewashed dwelling-house swirled in winter a torrent of water that often carried lumps of the land along with it.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

After that it was the dominie's custom, on seeing the room cleared, to send in a smart boy -- a dux was always chosen -- who wedged a clod of earth or peat between doorpost and door.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

All eyes were turned upon the dominie's hand, and though he pocketed it smartly several members had seen the blood.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

This story, too, seems to reflect against the dominie's views on cleanliness.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

The farm of Little Tilly lay so close to the dominie's house that from one window he could see through a telescope whether the farmer was going to church, owing to Little Tilly's habit of never shaving except with that intention, and of always doing it at a looking-glass which he hung on a nail in his door.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898