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teacher and was
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.
Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.
But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.
He was, however, fortunate in his contact with Prof. J. G. L. Manthey ( 1769-1842 ), teacher of chemistry, who, in addition to his academic chair, was also proprietor of the `` Lion Pharmacy '' in Copenhagen where Oersted assisted him.
Attica, though important, was not the only teacher of this age.
Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.
It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.
M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.
Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.
The teacher thought it was so successful that she asks: `` Wouldn't it be helpful to all age groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their fears and worries ''??
Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.
In that meeting, Gershwin asked Ravel to be his teacher, to which Ravel responded that it was better to be a first-rate Gershwin than it was to be a second-rate Ravel.
His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.

teacher and fool
They fool teacher into believing that Spotty is an alien and a rubbish bin outside is his space ship.
In one episode, the class switched seats to fool Mr. Besser when he became substitute teacher, and when Nancy's report was worth an A, Mr. Besser mistook her for Charlie due to the seating arrangement plans ( since he knew few of the students ' names except Jesse and Vinnie, whom he often put in detention ).

teacher and .
And if you get sick, ask the teacher to let you come home early.
`` No, not now '', said the teacher.
At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.
He simply would not work his arithmetic problems when the teacher held his class.
He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.
Being a teacher of American literature, I remembered Whittier's `` Massachusetts To Virginia '', where he said: `` But that one dark loathsome burden ye must stagger with alone, And reap the bitter harvest which ye yourselves have sown ''.
In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.
Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.
My future plans are to become a language teacher.
Taken back into the Army now as an Sp 4, I am leaving 110 college students whose teacher I am.
`` Le petit dejeuner '', Harold said, in an accent that did credit to Miss Sloan, his high-school French teacher.
But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student's approach as distinctly his own.
( An enterprising teacher or parent could start training a healthy child at the age of seven days.
To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.
At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.
Eventually the class will be able to kick up high enough so that the teacher can catch the leading leg.

was and pliant
Urban VI did himself no favors ; whereas the cardinals had expected him pliant, he was considered arrogant and angry by many of his contemporaries.
Backing their faction in the country a pliant government was soon in place.
The plan was, through the use of troops conveniently arrayed around Paris, first to persuade the Directors to resign, then to persuade the two Councils to appoint a pliant commission to draw up a new constitution.
The following account of his martyrdom is on a high plane and contains a proper appreciation of his principles: when Rufus —" Tyrannus Rufus ," as he is called in Jewish sources — who was the pliant tool of Hadrian's vengeance, condemned the venerable Akiva to the hand of the executioner, it was just the time to recite the Shema.
The pliant medium of baked clay covered with a " slip " of vitrified lead and refined minerals permitted a lustrous, polished surface capable of reflecting light and using color that was beautifully appropriate for architectural sculpture.
Ludendorff was the chief manager of the German war effort, with the popular general von Hindenburg his pliant front man.
When the Conservatives came into power in 1874, his part for the next six years was to criticize Disraeli's " spirited " foreign policy, and to defend his own more pliant methods.
The plan was, first, to persuade the Directors to resign, then, second, to get the Council of Ancients and the Council of Five Hundred ( the upper and lower houses of the legislature ) to appoint a pliant commission that would draw up a new constitution to the plotters ' specifications.
On February 26, 1992, Milošević engineered Babić's removal in favour of Goran Hadžić, a more pliant figure who was reported to have boasted that he was merely " a messenger for Slobodan Milošević ".
I have generally found that the strongest advocates of communism are the most lazy members of society, — a class who would make a division of labor, adjudging to the most pliant and submissive the lion's share of work, and contending that their natural implement was the brain, whilst that of the credulous was the spade, the plough, the sledge and the pickaxe.
" The chassis was judged to be " superb, combining failsafe handling with a pliant ride ".
The British government, under the advice of Baring, insisted on the evacuation of the Sudan, and Muhammad Sharif Pasha having resigned office, the more pliant Nubar was induced to become prime minister, and to carry out a policy of which he openly disapproved, but which he considered Egypt was forced to accept under British dictation.
Ludendorff was the chief manager of the German war effort throughout this time, with Hindenburg his pliant front man.
Decidedly unimposing on the stage ( like Pacchiarotti ), he was endowed with a clear, pliant and pure voice which won him the admiration of such personages as Alfred de Vigny, who, in his story “ La vie e la mort du Capitaine Renaud ou La canne de jonc ”, wrote of “ a seraph ’ s voice which sprang from an emaciated and wrinkled face ”, or as the seventeen-year-old Arthur Schopenhauer who, in his turn, entered in his diary a voice that was “ beautiful in a supernatural way ” and provided with a full and sweet timbre.
While most of Rohilkhand was annexed, the Rohilla State of Rampur was established by Nawab Faizullah Khan on 7 October 1774 in the presence of British Commander Colonel Champion, and remained a pliant state under British protection thereafter.
Journalist Ian Johnson, whose coverage of the crackdown on Falun Gong earned him a Pulitzer Prize, wrote that the job of the 610 Office was “ to mobilize the country's pliant social organizations.
Her acting was acclaimed by a New York Times critic, who said of her: " Miss Collinge plays with the soft, pliant sincerity that makes her one of the most endearing actresses.
He was equally adroit and many-sided in his literary work ; in harmony with the polished, pliant nature of the courtier is his elegant Platonic style of his letters and speeches.

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