But the retired schoolmaster was arrested again in 2004 and was convicted of murder the following year at Manchester Crown Court and jailed for life, and told he must serve a minimum of 15 years before being considered for parole.

BBC: Gordon Park and Carol Park

The village chief and the local schoolmaster can often influence votes without visibly campaigning: a hint of new buildings or wells can make up wavering minds.

ECONOMIST: On democracy��s front line

The painting, also the same size, was previously identified as Constable's schoolmaster from Dedham, Dr Thomas Lechmere Grimwood, based on its description in a 1926 Sotheby's sale catalogue as a 'Portrait of the artist's schoolmaster'.

BBC: Artist captured parents on canvas

And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'

But it is Fowler, that supposedly starchy old schoolmaster, who is the most striking opponent of rigidity.

NEWYORKER: The English Wars

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'

Her father, who was a railway signalman at the time of her birth, decided to make the uncommon step-up to becoming a schoolmaster.

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But the boys were only eleven, and the affair was broken up by a priest and schoolmaster named Manolo.

NEWYORKER: Bad Education

In the spring of 1994, in Kigali, Rwanda, three Westerners a wily Catholic priest and schoolmaster (John Hurt), his sincere young disciple (Hugh Dancy), and a Belgian military man (Dominique Horwitz) who heads a U.N. unit hunker down in a besieged school with about twenty-five hundred Tutsis under their protection.

NEWYORKER: Beyond the Gates