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Examples
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When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected.
Inspiration 2009
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Institutions are no place for frolicking, and I mean that not in a stern schoolmasterish way, but rather as a fairly pedestrian observation about how institutions work.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected.
Archive 2009-04-12 2009
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When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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When he spoke it was in the schoolmasterish manner that he sometimes affected.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Peter Fraser-MacKenzie was not at all intimidated by the schoolmasterish official portrait of President, Robert Mugabe, that hanged in the small village post office.
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They still find it difficult to relate to the low-key, at times schoolmasterish, rhetoric of the African National Congress (ANC) leader.
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But of course he wasn't: he was a slender, schoolmasterish young man, old beyond his years and serious almost to the point of eccentricity, judging by his conversation so far.
The Alamut Ambush Price, Anthony 1971
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'You ought not to go out in this weather without wearing galoshes, gentlemen,' Philip Philipovich interrupted in a schoolmasterish voice.
The Heart Of A Dog Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 1968
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“Come down, my boy,” he said in the slightly schoolmasterish tone he always used when he wanted something done quickly.
The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952
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