Which preposition to use with schoolmasters

of Occurrences 41%

The schoolmasters of France, who knew how to die of hunger for Truth and for Science, were worthy that one of their race should be killed for Liberty.

in Occurrences 39%

They lay all excesses at the Germans' door, for the Germans, during the War, are regarded as Turkey's schoolmasters in everything.

at Occurrences 24%

" FOOTNOTES: Speaking of honour, it is as well to recall here the reply made by a German officer to the schoolmaster at Chanteheux.

to Occurrences 8%

The real truth is that in marriage a man is schoolmaster to his wife and she is equally schoolmistress to him.

for Occurrences 7%

Her husband had been the village schoolmaster for twenty-eight years.

with Occurrences 5%

But the Boy thumped the table with one hand and arraigned the schoolmaster with the other.

on Occurrences 5%

Mr. Parker, his assistant, was promoted to a lieutenancy, and Mr. Michael Lane, who was mentioned for the post by Captain Graves in 1763, and who was now schoolmaster on the Guernsey, was appointed in his place.

from Occurrences 4%

Then this queer little companya Denver bank-clerk, an ex-schoolmaster from Nova Scotia, an Irish-American lawyer from San Francisco, a Kentucky "Colonel" who had never smelt powder, and "the Boy" (who was no boy at all, but a man of twenty-two)these five set to work felling trees, clearing away the snow, and digging foundations for a couple of log-cabinsone for the Trio, as they called themselves, the other for the Colonel and the Boy.

by Occurrences 4%

He had shocked the schoolmaster by handing in an essay on "The Art of Bareback Riding.

about Occurrences 3%

And this distribution, which was adopted by Dr. Ash about 1765, by Murray the schoolmaster about 1790, by Caleb Alexander in 1795, and approved by Dr. Adam in 1793, has since been very extensively followed; as may be seen in Dr. Crombie's treatise, in the Rev. Matt.

than Occurrences 2%

" "Danger, my good sir, is a better schoolmaster than all your new model schools, diagrams, and scientific apparatus.

in Occurrences 1%

Samuel McChord Crothers says that were he on the examining board for the granting of certificates to prospective teachers, he would place a copy of Lamb's essay on Schoolmasters in the hands of each, and if the light of humorous appreciation failed to dawn as the reading progressed, the certificate would be withheld.

after Occurrences 1%

"Use me to serve and honor thee, And let the rest be as thou wilt"E.L.E. Marjorie's laugh was refreshing to the schoolmaster after his hard day's work.

amongst Occurrences 1%

Let us prove our gratitude to the dead by faithfully endeavoring to elevate the station, to enlarge the usefulness, and to raise the character of the schoolmaster amongst us.

as Occurrences 1%

Perhaps he did not regard the poor old schoolmaster as a practical judge of practical matters.

into Occurrences 1%

The idea had fully taken possession of his mind that a deep intrigue was going on which would end by bringing Elsie and the schoolmaster into relations fatal to all his own hopes.

throughout Occurrences 1%

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.

towards Occurrences 1%

But they will be sure to do so if there is a Law, armed with the force to be their schoolmaster towards peaceable habits.

without Occurrences 1%

Winkelsteg was to be my hermitage; and now I am here, a schoolmaster without a school.

Which preposition to use with  schoolmasters