prepostor

From supper until nine o'clock three fags taken in order stood in the passages, and answered any prepostor who called "Fag," racing to the door, the last comer having to do the work.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

They were in a good bedroom, where slept the only prepostor left who was able to keep thorough order, and their study was in his passage.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Over them topple the leaders of the rush, shooting over the back of the prepostor, but falling flat on Tom, and knocking all the wind out of his small carcass.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

There stands the School-house prepostor, safest of goal-keepers, and Tom Brown by his side, who has learned his trade by this time.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Every now and then, however, a prepostor would be seized with a fit of district visiting, and would make a tour of the passages and hall and the fags 'studies.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

A quarter past one now struck, and the bell began tolling for dinner; so they went into the hall and took their places, Tom at the very bottom of the second table, next to the prepostor (who sat at the end to keep order there), and East a few paces higher.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

I fear that this was in some measure owing to the fact that Tom could probably have thrashed any boy in the room except the prepostor; at any rate, every boy knew that he would try upon very slight provocation, and didn't choose to run the risk of a hard fight because Tom Brown had taken a fancy to say his prayers.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

It is Tom Brown, grown into a young man nineteen years old, a prepostor and captain of the eleven, spending his last day as a Rugby boy, and, let us hope, as much wiser as he is bigger, since we last had the pleasure of coming across him.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

They listened a moment, assured themselves that it wasn't a prepostor, and then went on with their work, and the door swung open, and in walked Flashman.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

Then the prepostor who stands by the master calls out the names, beginning with the sixth form; and as he calls each boy answers "here" to his name, and walks out.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971