105 Verbs to Use for the Word professor

"Then where are we?" asked the professor, somewhat disconcerted, and looking uneasily at the refractory student.

" What saith the Princeton professor?

Besides, Padre Irene promised to get him a fine assignment, a good province, and even hinted at the possibility of having him appointed a professor.

I have seen a supper party under my father's roof where our guests were two fencing-masters, three professors of language, one ornamental gardener, and one translator of books, who held his hand in the front of his coat to conceal a rent in the lapel.

"Stop, Powell!" cried the professor.

"By the way, we met in England last spring a young sub-professor, Horace Bradford, a most unusual young man for nowadays, but of old New England stock.

Why more than the professors of religion who barter their fellow-professors to them for gold and silver?

Who authorized the professor to bereave the word 'not' of its negative influence?

An astronomical observation was sufficient to withhold him from court, or to call him away abruptly from the most illustrious assemblies; nor was there any hope of enjoying his company, without inviting some professor to keep him in temper, and engage him in discourse; nor was it possible, without this expedient, to prevail upon him to sit for his picture.

'This learned family has given sixteen professors to British Universities.'

At the age of twenty he entered the ministry, and seven years after was chosen a professor in the University of Dublin.

" "Jesso, jesso, monseer," replied the professor, examining the youth over his gold eye-glasses.

He could easily have raised a cry that would have brought a professor to his rescue and scattered his persecutors like sparrows; but his boyish idea of honor put that rescue out of his reach, and he fought like a dumb man, with only such occasional grunts as his struggle tore from him.

He died a professor, a knight, and a member of the Swedish Academy, and was posthumously honored as a benefactor of his country.

"A good sample of wood you are yourself!" exclaimed the professor, laughing in spite of himself.

Four years later, in 1836, Harriet, now twenty-five, married the professor of biblical criticism and Oriental literature in the seminary, Calvin E. Stowe, a learned and able man.

Placido enjoyed among his friends the reputation of being a philosopher, so he lost his patience, threw down his book, arose, and faced the professor.

We found the professor an humble-minded Christian, kind and affectionate.

I know an amiable professor very different from Dr. Dryasdust.

The night preceding it two things of interest happened: the eleven and substitutes assembled in the gymnasium and listened to a talk by Remsen, which was designed less for instruction than to take the boys' mind off the morrow's game; and Wesley Blair took his examination in the four neglected studies, and made very hard work of it, and finally crawled off to a sleepless night, leaving the professors to make their decision alone.

One of his anecdotes was this: 'Archbishop Whately did not like a professor named Robert Daly; he said the Irish were a very contented people, they were satisfied with one bob daily.'

One day he questioned his professor.

He superintended the construction of the buildings, which alone cost $300,000; he selected the professors, prescribed the course of study, was chairman of the board of trustees, and looked after the interests of the institution.

He insisted that slaveholding professors and ministers should be cut off from the communion of the Church.

"I remember," said Smith, "the first year that I was in college, of hearing two learned professors disputing about what sort of animal it was that made the piping noise we hear in the marshy places, and stagnant pools, in the spring time, usually known as peepers.

105 Verbs to Use for the Word  professor