Mallory, a 37-year-old schoolmaster at Charterhouse, had already proven himself at climbing at high altitude.
Personally, I feel a bit like an old schoolmaster.
But, as a local Tory schoolmaster admits, it is still "embarrassing to be seen to be a Tory".
When he was barely in his teens, the village schoolmaster tasked him with writing a speech to mark Israel's independence day.
Lothaire, clearly based on Albert Camus, is driven, first by a schoolmaster and then by his own ambition, to leave Algeria for mainland France.Both are tormented men.
It was a giddy elevation for the son of a schoolmaster from a southern village which was "desperately poor and with a hangdog air when you get past its whitewash and its ornamental pots of basil," wrote David Holden in "Greece Without Columns".
It seems that the slovenly teenager, not to mention the purse-lipped schoolmaster, is at least 4,000 years old.
(She quotes a review she found in an old British Falconers' Club journal: "For those with an interest in the dull, introspective business of manning and training a hawk, 'The Goshawk' will be a well-written catalogue of most of the things one should not do").White, a schoolmaster at Stowe, a well-known English boarding school, was the product of a brutal childhood.
The village chief and the local schoolmaster can often influence votes without visibly campaigning: a hint of new buildings or wells can make up wavering minds.Golkar also has more than just human resources at its disposal.
Wary but flattered, she agreed to stroll with him by the Seine.He told her he was a writer (or that he would be one day), the son of a country schoolmaster, now studying in Paris.
There is C.M. Wells, a shy Eton schoolmaster who, besides teaching classics, had two passions: cricket and fishing.
