schoolmastering
- a word derived from schoolmaster.
Example Sentences
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Cotton-farming in Liberia, bookselling, homeopathic medicine, farming, the army, schoolmastering and painting�all passed in review, until the canon blew up.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a fussy, solitary man who at 41 retired from schoolmastering with the solemn announcement: "My dear fellow, I'm not going to do anything useful again."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was out of print when it was discovered by American college youth, who sent paperback sales to 2,000,000 and emancipated Golding from any more schoolmastering.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reason : "Then if I fizzle out as a writer, I shall be qualified to turn my hand to something else�possibly schoolmastering."
From Time Magazine Archive
At fifteen, still schoolmastering, he took a job in the nearby town of Kendal, and a decade after that he moved to Manchester, scarcely stirring from there for the remaining fifty years of his life.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
