How To Use Dominie In A Sentence
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At that, dominie, I lost patience, and I whispered, fierce-like, 'Keep your foot to yoursel', you limmer! '
The Little Minister
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The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor
Auld Licht Idyls
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He'll be hamesick ere a twelvemonth, laird," said the dominie; and the laird answered fretfully, "A twelvemonth is a big slice o 'life to fling awa in far countries.
Scottish sketches
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I refused to taste the brimming glass, even when the pastor of the household, a genial "dominie," rallied me upon my abstinence.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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When the dominie was a younger man he had first clashed with the minister during Mr. Rattray's attempts to do away with some old customs that were already dying by inches.
Auld Licht Idylls
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When she learns that he has been secretly having an affair with the tutor she joins her in attempting to oust the hapless dominie.
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Gavin's reinstalment in the chair year after year was made by the disappointed dominie the subject of some tart verses which be called an epode, but Gavin crushed him when they were read before the club.
Auld Licht Idyls
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There is a rather nervous disclaimer aimed at dominies who suffer from a humour bypass.
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The dominie was the master of the sports, assisted by the neighbouring farmers, some of whom might be elders of the church.
Auld Licht Idylls
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The dominie was the master of the sports, assisted by the neighboring farmers, some of whom might be elders of the church.
Auld Licht Idyls
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The dominie was a poor creature, whose necessities compelled him to abide in our neighborhood, though his moral sense was greatly shocked at the crimes which were often perpetrated around him.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
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‘I've not taught in a school since 1969,’ he told him, ever sensitive to accusations that his leadership style reflected too much of the dominie.
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The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor Mr. Dickie by many years.
Auld Licht Idylls
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It is a sound reaching back to the farthest recesses of his throat, to an Etonian schooling in the late 1940s, and to classroom discipline as a Bo'ness Academy dominie in the late 1950s.
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Nor good neither, answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure.
Chapter III
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Thus, he made a new fort of earthen banks with stone bastions, enclosing within its walls not only the soldier's barracks, but also at first the governmental residence and public offices; he also built several windmills and the first church which was used solely as such, as well as houses for the dominie and for the schout-fiscal.
II. The Dutch Town under the First Three Directors. 1626-1647.
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The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the Board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole.
Auld Licht Idylls
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of
Redgauntlet
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Now my grandam does it because she is parcel blind by age, and whole blind by kindred; and my master, the poor Dominie, does it to curry favour, and have the fullest platter of furmity and the warmest seat by the fire.
Kenilworth
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The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole.
Auld Licht Idyls
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Gavin's reinstalment in the chair year after year was made by the disappointed dominie the subject of some tart verses which he called an epode, but Gavin crushed him when they were read before the club.
Auld Licht Idylls
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The boys drew on the socks and boots, and the ebonies came in for a share of the spoil, whilst the Dominie
My manse during the war : a decade of letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, editor of the Methodist Protestant,
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A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as
Redgauntlet
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By over-professionalising we exclude mature folk whose experience would make them better dominies in a typical housing estate than a young graduate.
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The ladies are occupied in conversation and merriment, and amused with the native songs and music of the dominie, smoking the hookha, eating pawn, dinner, &c.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society