guest-master

Ateiba, and ibn Mesfer, the guest-master, would spend much of the day and all the evening hours tormenting Mohammed Hassan.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

When Mirzuk el Tikheimi, his guest-master, came in from Zeid to explain the shameful story of their rout, Feisal just laughed at him in public and sent him aside to wait while he saw the sheikhs of the Harb and the Ageyl whose carelessness had been mainly responsible for the disaster.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The tribal propaganda was marching forward: all was for the best, and I was about to take my leave when Suleiman, the guest-master, hurried in and whispered to

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

At present, each of the monastic officials controlled parts of the property, and fulfilled his responsibility with the income from that property: the cellarer, the sacrist, the guest-master, the novice-master and the infirmarer all had “their” farms and churches.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

Only the guest-master and one or two of his irredeemably depraved cronies might favor Osbert in anticipation of a regime of slack discipline and slovenly indulgence.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The guest-master was there, his round belly and red nose revealing his vices — vices that might be pardonable, Philip thought, if he ever had any guests.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

The sacrist has his lands, I have mine, and there are smaller endowments for the novice-master, the guest-master, the infirmarer and the almoner.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

Once he invented a comical account of life with the monks, giving each of them plausible sins — pride for Remigius, gluttony for Bernard Kitchener, drunkenness for the guest-master, and lust for Pierre Circuitor.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

He was happy to take orders from Philip, who was intelligent and organized; but it was hard to obey the foolish sub-prior, Remigius, or the drunken guest-master, or the pompous sacrist.

The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

Their abbot was Eata, a pupil of St. Aidan, and previously Abbot of Melrose and Lindisfarne, while the guest-master was no less a person than Cuthbert, the legend of whose having entertained an angel unawares at Ripon added, no doubt, to the growing reputation of the house.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett