The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idyls] Reference
The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor Mr. Dickie by many years. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference
I refused to taste the brimming glass, even when the pastor of the household, a genial "dominie," rallied me upon my abstinence. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
"dominie", the old-style disciplinarians who ran local schools, all pupils were drilled to read and write from the age of 5. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Replied the dominie: 'A cow's tail grows downward. From Wordnik.com. [THE END OF THE STORY] Reference
"Guess I'll have to give you a hand, dominie," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
"Guess you'd better sit down, dominie," advised the captain. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
"But serving a Breakness dominie is by no means degradation!". From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
"I would not say that either, Cornal," said the dominie firmly. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
You're not fit for it, lad; you have only the makings of a dominie. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
'It is this,' said I. 'Will you accompany me to call on the dominie?. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The poor dominie remonstrated, menaced, supplicated, but all in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
In a neighbourly compassion the dominie would come in of a Sunday or a. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
When I entered the school Matthew Howe was the regulator, teacher and dominie. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
We dominie of Breakness Institute are individuals, each his own personal citadel. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
Three neighbours surrounded her when the dominie administered the Extreme Unction. From Wordnik.com. [A Simple Soul] Reference
By this time the dominie was endeavoring to pull the chair loose from the seat of his trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Bob the Castaway] Reference
Religiously he had maintained the pose of a Breakness dominie, temporarily on Pao as an advisor. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
We found the company encamped in a schoolhouse, our fat signal-sergeant doing dominie at the desk. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
"At the play-acting again, Master Gilian?" said the dominie a little bitterly, a little humorously. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
It was considered a great joke to ask the dominie if he was converted to immersion, now that he practiced it. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
Brooks the dominie was waiting among the jars and oatcakes and funeral biscuits with currants and carvie in them. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
We hired a wagon from an enterprising farmer for our band; then sent complimentary tickets to the dominie to come to see. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
I want you to go with me to ask the dominie to accept the offering of a few poor strolling players to increase the fund. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The dominie accompanied us up the street, where we admired the trees laden with clusters of beautiful red-cheeked pomegranates. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
It is used for almost any old thing on week days, and on Sunday a dominie from an adjoining parish tackles sermons once in a while. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Beneath were the seats for the attendants, who, in accordance with the customs of the old English Episcopacy, waited upon the dominie. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The dominie will tell us that they are old-fashioned, and the pedagogue who keeps a school, "and ca's it a acaudemy," will sneer at them as. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
"It's the dominie," she cried, and her brother added. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
"It's no kent, but -- the dominie was seen goin 'hame by himsel'.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
I say swear, dominie, for when she had finished I jumped to my feet, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
If they were the dominie apples, and it was April or May, he certainly. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
"It's through the town," Hendry answered, "that a woman was wi 'the dominie.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
"Maybe the dominie can clear it up," suggested the post, "him being a scholar.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
Yes, I had seen them, for the figure on the hill was no other than the dominie of Glen Quharity. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
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