Sentences with phrase «english schoolmaster»
This special edition is a distinguished vintage reproduction, of the 1884 satirical novella Flatland, by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott.
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Robert Donat is utterly charming and convincing as the beloved English schoolmaster who influences and guides the lives of hundreds of boys who come through his classroom over the course of 50 years.
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In the role of schoolmaster for the moment was General Bradley Gaylord, distinguished soldier in two world wars, currently chairman of the board of the Madison Fund, cutthroat practitioner of a racy version of English croquet (pronounced «croaky») to which he has drawn numerous addicts among neighbors on Cape Cod and the winter resort island of Antigua, B.W.I., and — not least among a variegation of accomplishments in a world of large affairs — amateur chef extraordinary.