Dominie

The dominie was a poor creature, whose necessities compelled him to abide in our neighborhood, though his moral sense was greatly shocked at the crimes which were often perpetrated around him. ❋ Various (N/A)

The dominie was the master of the sports, assisted by the neighbouring farmers, some of whom might be elders of the church. ❋ Unknown (1898)

When the dominie was a younger man he had first clashed with the minister during Mr. Rattray's attempts to do away with some old customs that were already dying by inches. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor Mr. Dickie by many years. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the Board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The dominie was the master of the sports, assisted by the neighboring farmers, some of whom might be elders of the church. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor ❋ Unknown (1898)

I refused to taste the brimming glass, even when the pastor of the household, a genial "dominie," rallied me upon my abstinence. ❋ Marion Harland (1876)

a race as this regiment of frightful reptiles was thrust into their midst by the radiant "dominie," whose face was fairly aglow with mischief. ❋ Various (N/A)

"dominie", the old-style disciplinarians who ran local schools, all pupils were drilled to read and write from the age of 5. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"And then I hit the dominie over the head with a baseball bat and sneaked off to sea again," he concluded with a harsh laugh. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact — ­figure it out for yourself — ­they were actually married, by a Church of England dominie, and living in wedlock, about the same moment that you were squalling your first post-birth squalls in this world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dominie had written home to England complaining that the Company folk, from the head factor down, were addicted to Indian wives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Replied the dominie: 'A cow's tail grows downward. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A gentleman, in my case, would have settled the matter with the kirk-treasurer for a small sum of money; but the poor stibbler, the penniless dominie, having married his cousin of Kittlebasket, must next have proclaimed her frailty to the whole parish, by mounting the throne of Presbyterian penance, and proving, as ❋ Unknown (2008)

“If your honour will forgive me,” said Mr. Jobson, who had produced and arranged his writing implements in the brief space that our conversation afforded; “as this is a case of felony, and the gentleman seems something impatient, the charge is contra pacem domini regis” — “D — n dominie regis!” said the impatient ❋ Unknown (2005)

While they were thus employed the good dominie drew on one side and made a vigorous onslaught on the basket, by way of exorcising the demon of hunger which was raging in his entrails. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His opening, though it may seem long and uninviting to modern readers, is interesting for the sympathetic sketch of the gentle consumptive dominie. ❋ Unknown (2004)