The Dominie denied every thing concerning it, as indeed he might, save having asked the smith the simple question, "if he had heard ought of a ghost at the Place?
The smith was then sent for, who declared that the Dominie had told him of the ghost being seen, and a murder committed, which he called a rash assassination, and said it was obvious, and easily inferred that it was done by a collar.
Accordingly, the poor Dominiewas seized at the head of his pupils, and dragged away, crutch and all, up before the new Laird, to answer for such an abominable slander.
The Dominie acknowledged that it was as impracticable to calculate what might happen in human affairs as to square the circle, which could only be effected by knowing the ratio of the circumference to the radius.
When the irascible dominie beheld them he pushed his way through the bystanders, swept the pieces from the board, and, with rigorous impartiality, denounced these impious desecrators of the Sabbath eve.
The dominie replied 'that he knew his duty, and did not mean to neglect it.
Dire was the distress of my poor dominie when he found the mother as much bewildered as the daughter was frightened, by the mistake.
As he had neither friend nor confidant, hardly even an acquaintance, no one had the means of observing closely how Dominie Sampson bore a disappointment which supplied the whole town with a week's sport.
Meg Merrilies, our Egyptian sibyl, has appeared to the Dominie this very day, and, as I conjecture, has frightened the honest man not a little.
By degrees, the Laird, who was much estranged from general society, became partial to that of Dominie Sampson.
Barnes was surprised at his master's patience on both occasions, knowing by experience how little he brooked neglect or delay; but the Dominie was in every respect a privileged person.
So saying, she turned suddenly from the amazed Dominie and regained with swift and long strides the shelter of the wood from which she had issued at the point where it most encroached upon the common.
The next morning at breakfast, however, theDominie did not make his appearance.
This was easily arranged, and the Colonel committed the Dominie to the charge of this man while they should remain in Edinburgh.
He knew that the dominie was not interested in the art of reading beyond the point of correct pronunciation, and hence he hoped the class might get off easily.
But the minister's wife would not hear of it, protesting that the dominiecould do it much better.
The failure of the class, however, brought the dominie his hour of triumph, and so complete had been the success of the examination that the master was abundantly willing that he should enjoy it.
This light treatment of what to Peter had seemed a grievous offense against all authority incensed the old dominie beyond all endurance.
As a last resort the olddominie sought to stem their victorious career with his famous problem in Practice, and to his huge enjoyment, one after another of the class had to acknowledge defeat.
The Dominie rose in his excitement and slammed the table, "My certie, lassie, but it would!
Aaron and the Dominie met one day in the square, and to Aaron's surprise Mr. Cathro's despondency about Tommy was more pronounced than before.
The dominie sprang out of bed, and while feeling for a light, thought he heard scurrying feet, but when he looked out at the window no one was to be seen; Vivat Regina lay ignobly in the gutters.
He lay back in his big chair, a complacentdominie again.
What had so crushed the dominiewas the affair of Francie Crabb.
She had shown the Dominie and Tommy the ear-rings given her long ago by Peter (they were bought with 'Sosh checks) and the poem he had written about them, and she was most anxious to gratify him in her reply.
These transactions were carried out on the sly, but the dominie knew what was going on, and despite his faith in himself he had his twitches of uneasiness.
The dominie paused, and regarded his guest quizzically.
If there is any kind of dominie more maddening than another, it is the one who will not leave you alone (ask any thoughtful boy).
They consisted of some letters written at home but brought to the school for private reading, and the Dominie got a nasty jar when he saw that they were all signed "Betsy Grieve.
The dominie could not help grinning a little at his own discomfiture as he told this story, but Aaron saw nothing amusing in it.
Dominie Scattergood, why did Christ tell the man inquiring about his soul to sell all he had and give everything to the poor?
Then the minister hires me, and I have to stay till Mrs. Tittle-Tattle has time to tell the dominie all the disagreeable things of the parish.
Dominie Scattergood, what do yow think of this discussion in the papers on the subject of liturgies?
Old Dominie Scattergood gave his entire time to religious discourse when he sat with us at the close of the Lord's day.
You seem, Dominie Scattergood, though you have been preaching a great while, to be very healthy and to have a sound throat.
The Dominie turned upon us like a day-dawn, and addressed us as follows: There is no warmer Bible phrase than this: "Touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
The first night that old Dominie Scattergood sat at our tea-table, we asked him whether he could make his religion work in the insignificant affairs of life, or whether he was accustomed to apply his religion on a larger scale.
Dominie Scattergood had in his face and temper the smiles of all the weddings he had ever solemnized, and in his hand-shaking all the hearty congratulations that had ever been offered him.
For the first time in many a day the old Dominie grew sarcastic, and said: What are we coming to?
The Dominie had said-- "When in doubt, mind that practically everything in an examination governs the subjunctive.
But the Dominie kept right on preaching, until they were both sound asleep with their heads on Grandmother's shoulders, one on each side; and if they had been awake to see, they might have thought that Grandmother took a nap too.
Kit and Kat bobbed and courtesied too, and the Dominie smiled at them and laid his hand on Kit's head.
He read a chapter from the Bible, and then the Dominie stood up in the pulpit and began to preach.
So, by and by, the Dominie said, "We will all sing the Ninety-first Psalm.
Good Dutch boys and girls always learn their catechism well," said Father Vedder; "then they are glad to see the good Dominie as well as the cakes.
It is a better sermon than the Dominie will preach, I know," said Kat.
But Mother always has such good things to eat when the Dominie comes--doesn't she, Kat?
I wish he'd come to see us again," said Kit, after the Dominiehad passed by.
It will be recalled that but two weeks had elapsed since he wrote his last letter to Dominie Snyder of Fredericktown, and this fact was evidently in his mind when he wrote this letter to the Maryland Brethren.
What the patriotic young lady said to the dominie I did not at the time know, but, whatever his previous sentiments were, her enthusiastic eloquence soon won him to the cause she had espoused.
We all congratulated the dominie on his skill and coolness.
As it was, we could scarcely keep our legs, and the dominie more than once nearly fell head over heels.
As soon as our horses had baited, thedominie and I prepared to start on our return.
The dominie was in the highest spirits, and could scarcely restrain himself from shouting out in his glee.
The dominie and I parted from Juan at the next turning, and soon reached home.
The long-coated, grave-looking dominie would never have been suspected of having lately acted the part of a dashing lancer.
The merry strains they struck up inspired us all; even the dominierose and began to snap his fingers and kick his heels.
In a short time the rain came down in torrents, every drop, as the dominie declared, "as big as a hen's egg.
Often the Dominie missed him from his accustomed place at the foot of the class, and there was no explanation to offer when he returned.
I would not say that either, Cornal," said thedominie firmly.
And while the Paymaster and the Dominie were thus discussing Gilian, the school would be in a tumult whereof he was sometimes the leader.
The dominie knows all the languages from Chinese to Williamsburg.
The very next day the dominie brought home the letter.
Nothing could have so effectually reinstated her in public opinion; wherever the dominie went on a message of help or kindness Margaret went with him.
Deil burn me," cried Bauldy Todd, "but the Dominie has done us!
Is it thus that you train your elder scholars to speak to their spiritual advisers, Dominie Grier?
But, in spite of the murmurs, the dominiegot the money.
The old parochial dominie had retired on a comfortable allowance.
The early days of the future minister were therefore passed in the acquisition of the Latin rudiments, a task which he performed to the satisfaction of the dominie who taught him.
Dominie Bogardus, Kieft, Captain John De Vries, and a great number of people were drowned.
They were sent as prisoners on board the ship Princess, in which the late director Kieft, and Dominie Everardus Bogardus, the first clergyman in New Netherland also embarked.
Happy generation to have the first enjoyment of the Shakespearian gallery of characters containing Dominie Sampson, the Laird of Ellangowan, Pleydell, Dandie Dinmont, and Meg Merrilies!
There can scarcely be a better example of the emetical nature of the stuff that was swallowed than the sentiment elaborated by the poor dominie of Arndilly.
My uncle and Rebecca's father, who were beginning to dabble in the fur trade, had jointly hired a peripatetic dominie to give us youngsters lessons in Bible history and the three R's.
When I re-entered the window, the dominie still slept.
By-and-bye, when school was in and the dominie dozed, I would lower that timid little whiffet of a Puritan maid out through the window to the turnstile.
The old servants shook their heads at his proposal, and even Dominie Sampson ventured upon an indirect remonstrance.
Even the usual passiveness of the Dominie was so far disturbed that he twice went to the window which looked out upon the avenue, and twice exclaimed, 'Why tarry the wheels of their chariot?
Conversation, it is true, was out of the question, but the Dominie was a good listener, and stirred the fire with some address.
Dominie Sampson, yet the third time, now standing at the front door.
The Dominie did accordingly pronounce a benediction, that exceeded in length any speech which Mannering had yet heard him utter.
The dominie went straight to the fire, and with the poker discovered the almost shapeless cinders of his pet tawse!
Dominie Roberts at two o'clock began to get uneasy, and gave many an anxious glance towards the windows, now getting quickly snowed up.
Dominie Roberts was a pedagogue, then, of this class.
No reply, and the dominie thumped on the floor with his wooden leg, and repeated the question.
At half-past two it began to get rapidly dark, so the dominie dismissed his class with earnest injunctions to those boys who had far to go, not to delay on the road, but to hurry home at once.
The dominie went out of the schoolroom every forenoon for half an hour to smoke.
But, apart from his fondness for corporal or palmar punishment, Dominie Roberts was a clever teacher, and Harry made excellent progress.
Dominie Roberts, the parish schoolmaster, was a pedagogue of the old school.
When the boat reached the shore again he leaped scrambling to the beach, and as soon as his dinner was eaten he hurried away to find the Dominie Jones.
In his excitement the dominie had snapped the stem of his tobacco-pipe in two.
The dominie was called, looked me over a few minutes, cross-questioned me, and approved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dominie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
