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Definition of Housemasters
1. housemaster [n] - See also: housemaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housemasters
Literary usage of Housemasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay (1920)
"As already noted, after the Head — quite literally — come the housemasters.
They are always after him: one or other of the troop is perpetually on his trail ..."
2. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"1 nave known schools from which housemasters have dreaded to receive boys.
Happily they are few ; in the majority of cases preparatory masters are fully ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"THE IMPRESSIONISTS rI ^HEY had dropped into the chaplain's study J[ for a Saturday
night smoke — all four housemasters — and the three briers and the one ..."
4. Comparative Education: Studies of the Educational Systems of Six Modern Nations by Peter Sandiford, Isaac Leon Kandel, Harold Waldstein Foght, Arthur H. Hope (1918)
"The assistants are badly paid and have to be allowed to add to their incomes by
private coaching or by becoming housemasters and taking the profits of their ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"... or roused the ire of housemasters ; how at one time life seemed scarcely worth
living uncheered by a couple of dozen of sickly silk-worms, ..."
6. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"The housemasters here and at Fujihara are not used to passports, and Ito, who is
posing as a town-bred youth, has explained and copied mine, all the village ..."
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