17 Metaphors for schoolmasters

The Board Schoolmaster and I are not friends.

Here the schoolmaster is surely behind-hand.

As soon as Dick had satisfied himself that the young schoolmaster was his rival in Elsie's good graces, his whole thoughts concentrated themselves more than ever on accomplishing his great design of securing her for himself.

The Irish schoolmaster was everywhere a feature of early western society.

I have endeavoured to show you how that may be done for that branch of science which it is my business to pursue; and I can but add, that I should look upon the day when every schoolmaster throughout this land was a centre of genuine, however rudimentary, scientific knowledge, as an epoch in the history of the country.

But not only was this poetry foreign; it was also liable to all those defects which are found to occur where schoolmasters become authors and the great multitude forms the public.

But the schoolmaster was no weak man.

"The gentlemen will not admit that a schoolmaster can be a gentleman."Id.

Schoolmaster is a noun.

Not only the schoolmaster himself, but the paedagogus who was responsible for the boy's conduct, was almost always either a slave or a freedman; and neither slave nor freedman could be an object of profound respect for a Roman boy.

In the Irish-speaking portions of the country the hedge-schoolmaster was often also a poet who wrote mellifluous songs in Irish, which were sung throughout the entire district and sometimes earned him enduring fame.

The first active schoolmaster of this class was Rev. Samuel Thomas of Goose Creek Parish in South Carolina.

"The village school" was the Grammar School of Hawkshead, where Wordsworth spent his boyhood; and the schoolmaster was the Rev. William Taylor, M. A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was the third of the four masters who taught in it during Wordsworth's residence there.

If the schoolmaster at large is grey and dull, shirking interesting topics and emphatic speech, what must he be like in the monotonous class-room?

For the same reason, schoolmasters are commonly punsters.

The landlord's was the least loud, the schoolmaster's the loudest of all.

" "I want to tell you," declared Padre Camorra, "that this little schoolmaster is a discontented filibuster.

17 Metaphors for  schoolmasters