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Examples

  • It involves a broken pair of glasses and my novice-master.

    Feeling like a mooch 2009

  • It involves a broken pair of glasses and my novice-master.

    Archive 2009-07-05 2009

  • When I was in monastic life, I found out, only after I had left, that my novice-master, now deceased, was into it.

    Gay Stereotypes Terry Nelson 2006

  • When I was in monastic life, I found out, only after I had left, that my novice-master, now deceased, was into it.

    Archive 2006-11-26 Terry Nelson 2006

  • Today Jonathan was pretending to be the novice-master, giving lessons to an imaginary row of pupils.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • The sacrist has his lands, I have mine, and there are smaller endowments for the novice-master, the guest-master, the infirmarer and the almoner.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • Philip saw that they were making fun of the old novice-master, who had fallen asleep in his place.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • “There are others — the sacrist, the circuitor, the novice-master …”

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • Philip remembered when the school had consisted of five boys and a senile novice-master.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • Anyway, what does the novice-master know about farming?

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

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