47 Metaphors for professors

But a reforming party, of which South, Babbage, Baily and Beaufort were prominent members, had induced the Admiralty to constitute a new Board, of which the Plumian Professor was a member.

As this "professor" was a near neighbour of mine, I frequently paid him a visit in his "studio," and he returned the compliment whenever he had time to spare.

The fact that the Baptist preachers were men exactly similar to their fellows in all their habits of life, not only gave them a good standing at once, but likewise enabled them very early to visit the farthest settlements, travelling precisely like other backwoodsmen; and once there, each preacher, each earnest professor, doing bold and fearless missionary work, became the nucleus round which a little knot of true believers gathered.

The professor himself was a little half-famished looking man, full of learning, by the show of which he was in the habit of boring everybody who came near him.

The schoolmaster looks at you; the college professor looks the way you are looking.

Contrasted with him, the young Ohio professor was indeed a pitiable character.

This "professor" was merely a kooky or slave, but by skill and industry he raised himself to an equality with the greatest men of his country; and as every chief who employed him always made him some handsome present, he soon became a man of wealth, and was constantly surrounded by such important personages as Pungho Pungho, Ruky Ruky, Kivy Kivy, Aranghy Tooker, etc., etc.

"Oh, Father Professor, are the fruits of success always so bitterso bitter?"

A college professor was one day nearing the close of a history lecture and was indulging in one of those rhetorical climaxes in which he delighted when the hour struck.

The Professor was a scientist who wished to study certain things the whereabouts of which were known to Leith.

At the best the Professor was not an imposing personage.

CHAPTER V PUPPET PROFESSORS The professor, like the army officer, has long been a semi-deity in Germany.

When we pulled up in Batavia at an electrician's for repairs, the Professor was a sightand also tired.

The difference is that The Professor is a transcript of reality, a very delicate and faithful transcript, and Jane Eyre is reality itself, pressed on the senses.

This so-called professor must be a fraud, even if he doesn't turn out to be the man we think he is.

Its professors, of whom there were four, were ministers in charges, who lectured to the students during the two holiday months of August and September.

The professor was not a physician, but a chemist, and a man who read history and metaphysics and medicine, and had, in his day, written a play.

The present Slade Professor of Fine Arts at University College, M. Légros, was a pupil of M. de Boisbaudran.

CHAPTER V PUPPET PROFESSORS The professor, like the army officer, has long been a semi-deity in Germany.

The learned Professor is an agreeable writer, and, I believe, a very pleasant man, but he certainly is a provoking editor.]

He became intimate with the late Dugald Stewart; and almost every other leading professor of the University of Edinburgh was his friend.

" The Professor felt his pulse, looked at his tongue, and nodded sapiently.

Our Greek professor, Doctor R., was a bit of a snob, and the plebeians of the class, much the largest part, always held him in ill will; and as his garden bordered on our section, and his fowls roosted in the trees overhanging the green, we one day decided to mulct him in a supper.

Though a migratory people, our college professors are fixtures.

His professors were dictators, who, while differing from each other as teachers, were yet united in frowning upon any attempt on the part of their pupil to emancipate himself from the thraldom of conventionalism and routine.

47 Metaphors for  professors