He was examining a portrait of Mr. Downing which hung on the wall when the housemaster came in.
Presently the door opened, and the housemaster appeared.
All he knew was that the housemaster was in the house, and would be glad if Mike would step across.
All alone in a strange school, where they probably played hopscotch, with a housemaster who offered one cups of tea after one's journey and talked about chamfered plinths and apses.
He received the housemaster frostily, but thawed as the latter related the events which had led up to the ringing of the bell.
The housemaster passed the fraudulent piece of evidence to Psmith without a word, and the latter, having included both masters in a kindly smile, left the garden.
He met his Housemaster but seldom, for he was naturally excluded from such unofficial hospitalities as Sunday breakfasts and half-holiday teas.
He was only a housemaster in my day, but there was no doubting his quality, even then.
But intercourse with hisHousemaster was not for him.
My housemaster told me the picture was terribly indecent, and that, taken with what he knew of my habits, it showed I was not a safe boy to be in the school.
My housemaster one day sent for me and said he had walked through my cubicle and noticed a stain on the sheet.
The humorist of the party draws joyous pictures of his Housemaster staggering home to bed after a riotous evening with an Archdeacon, or being thrown out of the Empire in the holidays.
After Chapel the Housemaster takes the form-master aside and confides to him the intelligence that he has been a Housemaster for twenty-five years.
We may note here that a new boy of the old days was not apparently troubled by tiresome regulations upon the subject of reporting himself to his housemaster on arrival.
Many a Housemaster has been able to adjust his perspective with regard to a boy by remembering that the boy has a drunken father, or a neurotic mother, or no parents at all.
He is a great Housemaster who can co-operate closely with his prefects without causing friction between the prefects and the House, or the prefects and himself.
Housemaster pure and simple, urging the postponement of the Final House-Match, D.
If an obscure and unathletic prefect reports a muscular and prominent member of the House to the Housemaster for some gross and demoralising offence, they will not regard the prefect as a hero.
If he is a goodHousemaster it is a good House: if not, nothing can save it.
If a housemaster, swelling with some grievance or scheme of reform, bears down upon him upon the cricket field on a summer afternoon, he adroitly lures him under a tree where another housemaster is standing, and leaves them there together.
On the Wednesday morning he would be in receipt of four hundred lines from his housemaster for breaking three windows and a gas-globe.
It occurred to him that the spectacle of a housemaster wandering abroad on the public highway, carrying a dirty boot, might be a trifle undignified.
He was examining a portrait of Mr. Downing which hung on the wall, when the housemaster came in.
The housemaster would hear no explanation; in fact, explanations were about the last thing he wanted.
If we came here at dinner-time, we should see the housemaster at the head of his table, and his wife or members of his family at the other end.
He was a little, freckled man with a fair moustache: he had become a schoolmaster through despair and a housemaster through patience.
He had been warned by his frantichousemaster 'to lash at 'em.
Berney, who hated Randall as only one housemaster can hate another.
Naturally his duties brought him into closer contact with his housemaster and he became intimate with the methodical ways of Mr Berney and the efficient management and culture of his wife.
Ask any housemaster about the letters they write: they're nearly always economic.
The Head turned to my housemaster for his testimony.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housemaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
