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When later I read the schoolmaster's pamphlet -- it had a very circumstantial title: "A mole, larger in size that ever seen before" -- I found that we actually did not agree on certain important points, though we both believed we had proved our main point, namely, the existence of the mole.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

His schoolmaster's voice, formal and clipped, softens at last into something approaching bemusement.

Christopher Jefferies: 'It was like having your personality left in ruins' 2011

They went to the Planetarium in the afternoon; there was no one there but herself and Sieske and the curator, who explained the complexity of nails in the little attic, and answered her questions in schoolmaster's English.

Politics 101 2010

I could easily picture this, Wylie lashing the unfortunate creature with his sharp schoolmaster's tongue, no doubt hoping to impress his colleague in this way with his rhetorical skills.

OpEdNews - Diary: Why I Didn't Go to Vietnam 2009

Then he raised his eyebrows, which are generally fixed at the angle of a disapproving schoolmaster's, and peered out over a pair of frameless glasses that were perched halfway down his nose.

The Reeducation of Abu Jandal 2009

When later I read the schoolmaster's pamphlet--it had a very circumstantial title: "A mole, larger in size that ever seen before"--I found that we actually did not agree on certain important points, though we both believed we had proved our main point, namely, the existence of the mole.

Rashomon at York 2009

The draw is the wedding of the schoolmaster's daughter, an attractive woman that he always worshiped from afar.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ricklibrarian 2008

But if Mark Foley hadn't repressed his homosexuality and desire for young boys he could have found a lover closer to his own age who would have dressed up in a little school boy outfit and bent over the desk for a few whacks from the schoolmaster's paddle.

Stephen Elliott: Foley And The Priest - Perverts In The Church And In The House 2008

What chance have any of these ancient arts and functions in a house so hideously topsy-turvy; a house where the woman is out working and the man isn't; and the child is forced by law to think his schoolmaster's requirements more important than his mother's?

Archive 2007-08-01 John M 2007

What chance have any of these ancient arts and functions in a house so hideously topsy-turvy; a house where the woman is out working and the man isn't; and the child is forced by law to think his schoolmaster's requirements more important than his mother's?

Vintage Distributism Richard Aleman 2007