Example Sentences

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This illness caused me to give up my teachership.

From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel

There is a consciousness in the unsuccessful applicant of somehow being worth less than she was before, since she is now an assistant mistress without potentiality for head teachership.

From Women Workers in Seven Professions by Morley, Edith J.

There, having retained perfect powers of using her mother-tongue, and also speaking German fluently, she had all but got a good teachership in a school, only she had no certificate of character.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

So, also, girls are placed in the Madura Girls' High and Training School and are there qualified for one of three grades of teachership.

From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

His dissent was a disqualification for any of the higher offices of the college, but the teachership was offered to him, with a salary of 500 rupees a month—absolute affluence compared with his original condition. 

From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary