Charles loved his "kind old schoolmaster," as he affectionately calls him, and surely to gain the love of the boys is the main battle in school-management.

As conceived by Goethe, Chiron is a level-headed fellow, an old schoolmaster who knows what to expect and how to judge character.

You know the guileless nature of your old schoolmaster, and take advantage of it!

With William Markham, his old schoolmaster, he had been on terms of friendship.

He said "The old Irish schoolmaster holds forth three months of the year in a poor cabin, with greased-paper window panes.

I remember a dear old schoolmaster who used to chide us with "Stop twittering".

Matt," he said, "when I was a boy they used to tell about an old schoolmaster who lived down in Kentucky.

'Yes,' said the old schoolmaster, observing that her attention was caught by these latter specimens.

Of course, the good old schoolmaster gave Andrew the desired permission, and everything ended happily.

He called persistently for his old schoolmaster to beat him.