Sentence examples for schoolmaster to from inspiring English sources

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

Various Web sites attribute the phrase to a British schoolmaster, to the Lancashire Evening Post, and to Rudyard Kipling.

No matter how far he rises in the world, he will always be the son of the village schoolmaster to some.

He boarded with the local schoolmaster to learn his Latin and Greek until 1760, when he entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg.

Meanwhile Nicholas is packed off as a schoolmaster to the horrific boarding establishment Dotheboys Hall, where Wackford Squeers Jim Broadbentt) and his ghastly wife (Juliet Stevenson) brutally abuse their charges, particularly a lame boy, Smike Jamie Belll).

With heavy responsibilities for his parents and siblings, it is remarkable that he nonetheless found time during the years as a schoolmaster to continue his own education and to start a program of research, primarily on differential equations and the calculus of variations connected with the works of Laplace and Lagrange (which he studied in the original French).

The feelings of the public authorities in England were first tested in the year 1793, when the philanthropist William Wilberforce proposed to add two clauses to the company's charter act of that year for sending out schoolmasters to India.

The literature of early education is filled with accounts of the duty of schoolmasters to beat children who disobeyed or failed to learn the prescribed lessons.

Randall, otherwise set for a future as a day-dreaming schoolmaster, agrees to go to the South Pacific to disburse the legacy.

Corbyn shouldn't pause, as he did on 4 November, because of chuntering, guffaws or groans from the other side, like a schoolmaster trying to glare his unruly pupils into guilty silence.

Palin's portrayal of Jim Nelson, a principled Lancashire schoolmaster committed to defending natural justice in the face of violent intimidation was simply stunning – and courageous, given that many actors might have hesitated before agreeing to conspire in so politically combustible a drama.