housemaster

IPA: hˈaʊsmæstɝ

Examples of "housemaster" in Sentences

It acts more like a housemaster in a progressive borstal.
"His authority did not depend on bullying," recalls his housemaster, Rockwell.
(Though years later, reading the autobiography, Abu suddenly recalled his housemaster Mr. Wilson ...).
As we entered Mogg House (Gordon Clifton-Mogg, housemaster), the weight of the nineteenth century settled around my shoulders like a shroud.
My father shook hands with our welcoming committee as if he, not I, were matriculating, and a few moments of chat with headmaster and housemaster ensued.
Jonathan Bailey as his sole protector and Nicholas Farrell as his clerical housemaster provide exemplary support in a play that stirs disquieting memories of adolescent angst.
It is staffed by "guardians" who have the quasi-parental function of the boarding school housemaster or mistress: these worthies bear the knowledge of their charges' fate as best they can.
On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.”
“Congratulations to you all, Butterflies, for you have this term risen from bottom place to second, and you were very nearly top,” declares Duckworth Butterfly housemaster Mr. Valentine Corrado in the December 1927 issue, adding grandly, as if reflecting on the outcome of a military battle, “to the very end it was uncertain whether you or the Duckworth Grasshoppers would triumph.”