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was schoolmaster
noun
A male teacher.
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His father was schoolmaster in the village and politically active in the Independent Labour Party.
Born in Urmston in 1708, Collier was schoolmaster for Milnrow.
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Justice Scalia, joined by Justice Thomas, said that the majority had treated the appeals court with disrespect, "as though we were schoolmasters grading their homework," and that "an appropriately self-respecting response" from the appeals court "would be summary reissuance of the same opinion".
Roy Mourby was a schoolmaster.
His father, Ilya Nicolaevitch, was a schoolmaster.
His father was a schoolmaster at Rugby, the English public school where Thomas Arnold developed an austere and brutal system that was intended to mold boys into imperial leaders.
The Times of London reported that he served briefly in an evangelical parish in south London, then for a short time was a schoolmaster.
After Makerere University, in Kampala, he taught for three years, admitting, later in life, that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.
Greek tradition after the 6th century claimed that Tyrtaeus was a schoolmaster from Athens or Miletus, sent to Sparta in reluctant compliance with an oracle to strengthen Spartan morale.
Graham Chapman recalled Davies as "not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster".
My father was a schoolmaster, though not at the same school as mine.
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