• Mallory, a 37-year-old schoolmaster at Charterhouse, had already proven himself at climbing at high altitude.

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  • But it is Fowler, that supposedly starchy old schoolmaster, who is the most striking opponent of rigidity.

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  • He was born in Birmingham in January 1922 to a village schoolmaster and grew up in Hurstpierpoint in Sussex.

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  • But the boys were only eleven, and the affair was broken up by a priest and schoolmaster named Manolo.

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  • Her father, who was a railway signalman at the time of her birth, decided to make the uncommon step-up to becoming a schoolmaster.

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  • The village chief and the local schoolmaster can often influence votes without visibly campaigning: a hint of new buildings or wells can make up wavering minds.

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  • Personally, I feel a bit like an old schoolmaster.

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  • And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.

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  • The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

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  • The painting, also the same size, was previously identified as Constable's schoolmaster from Dedham, Dr Thomas Lechmere Grimwood, based on its description in a 1926 Sotheby's sale catalogue as a 'Portrait of the artist's schoolmaster'.

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  • But the retired schoolmaster was arrested again in 2004 and was convicted of murder the following year at Manchester Crown Court and jailed for life, and told he must serve a minimum of 15 years before being considered for parole.

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  • In the spring of 1994, in Kigali, Rwanda, three Westerners a wily Catholic priest and schoolmaster (John Hurt), his sincere young disciple (Hugh Dancy), and a Belgian military man (Dominique Horwitz) who heads a U.N. unit hunker down in a besieged school with about twenty-five hundred Tutsis under their protection.

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