Sentence examples for schoolmaster with from inspiring English sources

In fact, even in rehearsal, Böhm does not seem to have needed to play the schoolmaster with the orchestra.

In 1798, Stephen Burroughs, a thievish New England schoolmaster with a nasty weakness for seducing his young charges, found himself in prison in Worcester, Mass.

In 1920, a schoolmaster with the apt name of John Thomas Looney invented a conspiracy theory suggesting that Shakespeare's plays were written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

Every morning, the students would assemble in rows for a military-style call to order; on a stool to one side sat a schoolmaster with a cane, ready to discipline boys who misbehaved, by beating them on the soles of their bare feet.

Dr. William Kemp Clark, who to Hall looked like an old schoolmaster with beady eyes behind small glasses, pronounced Kennedy dead at 1 p.m. "Call it," the doctor said and then strode out past Jackie Kennedy, barely stopping as he said, "Madam, your husband is dead".

Another person I used to talk to on my French mountain was a wandering ex-schoolmaster with a black dog.

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).

In the manner of a stern schoolmaster dealing with a difficult pupil, Judge May patiently repeated questions that Mr. Milosevic ignored.

The retired schoolmaster sat with his head propped up on his palms, his elbows balanced on his knees, his radio by his side.

And filling in for the late Richard Griffiths in a scene from Alan Bennett's Tony-winning "The History Boys" was none other than Mr. Bennett himself, the 79-year-old playwright giving himself over to Mr. Griffiths's role of the schoolmaster, Hector, with delight.

When he was barely in his teens, the village schoolmaster tasked him with writing a speech to mark Israel's independence day.