The Praepostors had also the power of punishment by giving "lines" or by thrashing but the latter was subject to proper control.
They saw the praepostors cowed by or joining with the fifth, and shirking their own duties; so they didn't respect them, and rendered no willing obedience.
This was a thing that made Jan's blood boil; he marvelled that no one else seemed to take it as an indignity, or to resent the authority of these praepostors as he did.
The praepostors wore straw hats, had fags, and wielded hunting-crops to keep the line at football matches.
And between three and four hundred chattered on all sides with subdued but ceaseless animation; the praepostors keeping order more or less, but themselves chatting to each other as became the first morning of the term.
The master mounted into the high desk by the door, and one of the praepostors of the week stood by him on the steps, the other three marching up and down the middle of the school with their canes, calling out "Silence, silence!
He would exhort, he would denounce, he would sweep through the corridors, he would turn the pages of Facciolati's Lexicon more imposingly than ever; and the rest he would leave to the Praepostors in the Sixth Form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "praepostors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
