Sentence examples for schoolmaster of from inspiring English sources

Sayed, a self-confident local schoolmaster of African descent, joined our group and began organising the distribution of tips.

He recalls his childhood, witnessing the secret folk-worship of the Virgin, and, later, describes his downfall as a "Schoolmaster of Necromancy".

His son later wrote a charming essay about his father, describing him as a "Carmarthenshire schoolmaster of reclusive habits but influence within a reclusive circle".

The heir to the experiments of the English caricaturists and the father of the comic strip in its modern sense was Rodolphe Töpffer, a schoolmaster of Geneva who was active in the 1830s and '40s.

I dropped in on a question-and-answer session with the "schoolmaster" of the local school for Indian boys, and heard him matter-of-factly describe their "typically Indian" lack of punctuality, ambition and modesty.

His father, Alfred Whitehead, was a minister and schoolmaster of Chatham House Academy, a successful school for boys established by Thomas Whitehead, Alfred North's grandfather.

He called for religious sensitivity on the Danish cartoons crisis rather than "lectures delivered in the style of a schoolmaster on western principles of freedom of speech".

But "South Downs" was commissioned by the Chichester Festival Theater specifically to be a companion piece to Rattigan's popular "Browning Version" (a portrait of a desiccated schoolmaster on the eve of his retirement), and Mr. Hare has graciously and gracefully matched Rattigan's tone of voice.

Imbued with ideas of national emancipation taken from the French Revolution and the writings of German intellectuals scholars, writers, clergymen, and schoolmasters of Czech origin began to stir a national consciousness among the common people.

Unlike many schoolmasters of the time, Priestley taught his students natural philosophy and even bought scientific instruments for them.

It is nearly 90 years since the "Monkey Trial" of John Scopes, a young schoolmaster accused of teaching evolution to Tennessee children.