Sentence examples for as schoolmaster from inspiring English sources

Although the Emperor had once regarded him as a mentor, Pedro I began to chafe in the subservient position of neophyte to Bonifácio's role as schoolmaster.

BBC iPlayer With the imperial QI war of succession over, and Sandi Toksvig taking over from Stephen Fry as schoolmaster-in-chief, dad TV's favourite quiz-ee Alan Davies has slowly been expanding his own media principality.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner, with a perfectly oiled ensemble led by the superb Richard Griffiths and Stephen Campbell Moore as schoolmasters with opposing views of history and education (2 40).

Barber's extraordinary and varied career – he was, by turns, a British schoolboy, an able seaman, a bookseller and a schoolmaster, as well as Johnson's majordomo – allows Bundock to explore what life felt like for a black man in Georgian England.

He worked as a schoolmaster for six years and then as an architect, designing and obsessively supervising the building of a house in Vienna for his sister Gretl.

By the 1970s, after a period as a schoolmaster in Biafra, and now quite forgotten as a writer, he is living on dogfood and selling revolutionary newspapers in London - a profession which leads him into involvement with the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland.

He is reluctant at first, as he has started a family and settled down as a schoolmaster.

For a while he taught classics at a school in Yorkshire (contemporaries there described him variously as "a first-rate swimmer" and "lacking humanity"), but his career as a schoolmaster ended prematurely because of religious doubts.

Březina spent most of his life as a schoolmaster in Moravia.

"We should not behave as a schoolmaster" to the Greeks, said Horst Seehofer, the Bavarian premier.