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- noun Plural form of
schoolmaster .
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Examples
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The position in which my father stood to the village schoolmasters, that is to say, to the Cantor, [5] and to the master of the girls 'school, and his judgment of the value of their respective teaching, decided him to send me to the latter.
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889
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The position in which my father stood to the village schoolmasters, that is to say, to the Cantor, [5] and to the master of the girls 'school, and his judgment of the value of their respective teaching, decided him to send me to the latter.
Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Friedrich Fr��bel 1817
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Go after the 'schoolmasters' and those who fund them.
Mumbai Attacks: Result of American Destabilization or Indian Discrimination and Violence? 2008
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Go after the 'schoolmasters' and those who fund them.
Mumbai Attacks: Result of American Destabilization or Indian Discrimination and Violence? 2008
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Verily, the heathen badly want educating, and we have now 250,000 of the right kind of schoolmasters within handy reach of them.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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In the dearth of schoolmasters, which is a feature in every infant educational system, he refused to reject a candidate who mistook "Argos for
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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"schoolmasters" to lead one on to the greater -- from the shadow to the reality.
The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905
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He was quoted as saying, “schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”
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With its motley cast of schoolmasters, policemen, perverts, dogs and hens, The Queue might at times verge on the prolix or the infantile – it was never completed, let alone edited – but it repeatedly recalls Joe Orton in its macabre preoccupations and scabrous humour.
Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow – review 2011
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Here in dim and desperate forms, under the ban of our base culture, stormed at by silly magistrates, sneered at by silly schoolmasters -- here is the old popular literature still popular; here is the unmistakable voluminousness, the thousand-and-one tales of Dick Deadshot, like the thousand-and-one tales of Robin Hood.
Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win Lou Anders 2009
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