language-master

A language-master captures my fancy as no other man has done.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

The old exile and the young one found each other out, and the language-master was soon an habitual guest at the Prince's table, where he was treated with the most affectionate attention.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it.

Little Women 1921

One day he went out of his way to account for the unlikeness to the language-master of the class.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

'And is it a language-master you'd be making of me?'

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

My father sat still in great distress and perplexity, asking me whether Clarence had ever told me anything of this, and I had barely time to answer 'No' before Clarence himself came in, from what Peter called his language-master.

Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

She felt proud to know that he was an honored Professor in Berlin, though only a poor language-master in America, and his homely, hard-working life was much beautified by the spice of romance which this discovery gave it.

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

Arrived at Baccani's lodgings, he was informed that the language-master had gone to his dinner at a neighbouring restaurant.

Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time Wilkie Collins 1856

Indian 'rajah,' at home a _munshi_, or language-master; and the 'African princess,' a slave-girl picked up in the bush.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855

A woman of Copenhagen, with whom I travelled from Odense to this city, and who gladly, according to her means, would have supported me, obtained, through one of her acquaintance, a language-master, who gratuitously gave me some German lessons, and thus I learned a few phrases in that language.

The True Story of My Life Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875 1847