How To Use Housemaster In A Sentence
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On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.”
Storyteller
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(Though years later, reading the autobiography, Abu suddenly recalled his housemaster Mr. Wilson ...).
Archive 2005-10-01
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He went into chemistry, left New Plymouth in 1946, and returned in 1952 to take up a post at his old school as housemaster and teacher.
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This housemaster knows very well how valuable sport can be.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've done as little gardening as possible since I was a boy because my housemaster used to punish my transgressions by making me go and spend hours weeding his garden.
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He was employed there as a housemaster from January 1993 to August 1996 and occupied the school house as a pre-requisite of the post.
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As we entered Mogg House (Gordon Clifton-Mogg, housemaster), the weight of the nineteenth century settled around my shoulders like a shroud.
Excerpt: What I Was by Meg Rosoff
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My father shook hands with our welcoming committee as if he, not I, were matriculating, and a few moments of chat with headmaster and housemaster ensued.
Excerpt: What I Was by Meg Rosoff
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Jonathan Bailey as his sole protector and Nicholas Farrell as his clerical housemaster provide exemplary support in a play that stirs disquieting memories of adolescent angst.
South Downs/The Browning Version – review
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They opted to stay on at their own expense for nearly a year after Mr Williams's employment as housemaster ceased.
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Following the deal, unions sought confirmation from the Department of Health that the new arrangements would apply to housemaster grades and assistant houseparents in the learning disability area.
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His authority did not depend on bullying," recalls his housemaster, Rockwell.
THE WASP'S NEST
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He's the kind of avuncular, gentle character who could be the beloved housemaster in Harry Potter's Gryffindor house.
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It is staffed by "guardians" who have the quasi-parental function of the boarding school housemaster or mistress: these worthies bear the knowledge of their charges' fate as best they can.
Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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On rare occasions a housemaster might have to confiscate copies of dubious girlie magazines emanating from Europe or South Africa.
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From the age of 11, I went to a boarding school in Hampshire, where I kicked against my housemaster rather than my father.
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As the stock representative of authority in the building, our housemaster never really stood a chance.
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It acts more like a housemaster in a progressive borstal.
Archive 2008-02-01
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They had to report to the housemaster about meting out punishment.
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His exuberance, gaiety and intelligence made him many friends and his irrepressible high spirits and disregard for authority sometimes strained the patience of his tolerant and long suffering housemaster.
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Discipline was administered by prefects who could refer a boy to a housemaster who in turn could send him to report to the headmaster, usually in that case for poor work in the classroom.
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He was also a pupil and then housemaster at the Roman Catholic boys' school attached to the abbey and run by the Benedictines.
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“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.”
Storyteller
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She encourages him to soften his attitude, and he becomes a housemaster.
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He is the school's third master, a housemaster and its head of Christian Theology.
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My housemaster talked me out of this by explaining that I would have a fantastic time at college, plus my father (a serving officer) warned me that I didn't have the necessary self-discipline to make it in the Army!
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“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.”
Storyteller
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Hubert, who was the boy's housemaster, summoned a mechanic and invited Barbara to lunch.