Where noble youths for mastership should strive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

To kill mastership you must have communal ownership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

Africa's traditional policy of baasskap (mastership).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 7] Reference

How now, Signior Launce! what news with your mastership?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Gentlemen of Verona] Reference

The other vacancy was a mastership in a school in Portland, Oregon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

The school was under the head-mastership of "the terrific Dr. Keate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Man] Reference

The school was under the head-mastership of “the terrific Dr. Keate.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Man]

The first question had reference to the mastership of the Runnymede hounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

Edgar's first essay in domestic mastership, and it pained her, not unnaturally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

We were both immensely disappointed when you wouldn't take the scout-mastership they offered you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference

The San Francisco post-mastership was suggested to him again, but he put the temptation behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

I shall keep up the Home farm; they've offered me the mastership of the hounds, and I think I shall take it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

Clemens was offered appointments for himself — a consulship, a post-mastership; even that of San Francisco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

The University began to consider him one of her first champions, and he was soon promoted to the mastership of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

Dr Wortle had been elected to an assistant-mastership at Eton early in life soon after he had become a Fellow of Exeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference

He then quitted his grand mastership and made himself hereditary Duke of that country, which is thence called Ducal Prussia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

And when this point is reached, or the certainty of its being reached is plainly seen, then mastership will make its next shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference

"Poor little bird," he murmured, as the sense of mastership rose strong within him at the sight of the helpless child at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Love] Reference

I told him not to call me that, and explained that I was only a journeyman of my guild, and would probably never attain to mastership.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

There is still a sphere above this, the three corresponding exactly to apprenticeship, journeymanship and mastership, in learning a trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

James II. of Scotland made the grand mastership hereditary, and conferred it on the St. Clairs of Roslin, in which family it continued till.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831] Reference

Lewis Morris, who had always assisted him to the utmost of his ability, procured him the mastership of a government school at New Brunswick in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference

Of this college he accepted the mastership (24th of January 1558/9) on the death of Dr Bacon, and held it till about a month before his death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

It must diminish the evils of slavery to one, the tyranny of mastership in the other, to acknowledge thus a common superior Master on whom they both depend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Then spake Nacien unto Ector: Sooth it is that Launcelot and ye come down off one chair: the chair betokeneth mastership and lordship which ye came down from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

We assume Unity or Identity; you assume Difference, and seek to reconstitute unity only through mastership on the one hand and reverent obedience on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

I actually even think he had ultimately forgiven his persecutors and the slayers of his family -- and that would be a mastership that one can only view with awe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Schwager: Remembering My Father: His Greatest Lesson to Me Was His Life] Reference

Of American mothers and American teachers what proportion are, by having attained a mastership in this art of politeness, fully able to educate our girls into it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of American Girls] Reference

Now every day and every hour was taking hope away from her, and giving it to that man who, from being her tool, had risen to the assertion of mastership over her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

Aristogeiton, the establishment at Stanmore declined, and at the end of five years, Parr was not sorry to accept the mastership of an endowed school at Colchester.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829] Reference

His father -- also Thomas -- dead three months before his son's birth, had been a subchaunter in Bristol Cathedral and had held the mastership in a local free school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rowley Poems] Reference

He resigned Whitcombe in 1852, finding the work too hard in connexion with his mastership; and in June of that year he sustained a severe bereavement by the death of his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Parr now became a candidate for the head mastership of Harrow, founding his claims on being born in the town, educated at the school, and for some years one of the assistants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829] Reference

The colonel stood and accepted the salutes of his batteries, and criticised points of turn-out and horse-mastership as though he were making an ordinary route-march inspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

In another sense mastership is commonly referred to any kind of subject; and in that sense even he who has the office of governing and directing free men can be called a master.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching] Reference

A conduct which proved more pleasing than secure; since treacherous is that repose which you enjoy amongst neighbours that are very powerful and very fond of rule and mastership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus on Germany] Reference

He, too, brought genius to his work; besides that, a certain indefinable mastership which animals recognize, love for them, and a vast amount of perseverance and patient waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference