hedge-schoolmaster
- a word derived from hedge-school.
Example Sentences
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At twenty hedge-schoolmaster at Drumgooland, Patrick Brontë was at thirty a respectable clergyman of the Church of England, with an assured position and respectable clerical acquaintance.
From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)
The hedge-schoolmaster conducted the rites, and the air resounded with the sonorous hexameters of Virgil and the musical odes of Horace.
From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.
In the Irish-speaking portions of the country the hedge-schoolmaster was often also a poet who wrote mellifluous songs in Irish, which were sung throughout the entire district and sometimes earned him enduring fame.
From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.
In our gallery of types we must not forget the character whom English writers contemptuously called the "hedge-schoolmaster."
From The Glories of Ireland by Lennox, P. J.
What hedge-schoolmaster has scattered them so loosely and profusely over this lovely land?
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
