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Example sentences for "private tutor"

  • Later he studied with a private tutor at Hatfield Broadoak, in Essex, England, and from this school he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he passed four terms.

  • Curtis, daughter of a wealthy planter, and soon was engaged by Colonel Curtis as a private tutor.

  • Still later he became a private tutor; then he took a professorship in his alma mater; and at length he brought his career as a teacher to a close while at Bethany College, West Virginia.

  • He in consequence engages a private tutor, and buys all the cram books published for the occasion.

  • It is generally used to designate a private tutor.

  • To prepare a student to pass an examination; to make use of the aid of a private tutor.

  • A cant term, in the British universities, for preparing a student, by the assistance of a private tutor, to pass an examination.

  • However, notwithstanding all this, I worked my way, got two premiums, and at length was reported fit to be placed under the hands of a private tutor, by whom I was to be finished for the University.

  • His morning duties at the board-school and his afternoon work as private tutor to the daughters of a well-to-do and refined family compelled him to outward decorum.

  • He encouraged independence and self-confidence in August, who, acting upon his advice, obtained a post as private tutor.

  • No, sir; I am to be private tutor in a family.

  • It is true that you are engaged as private tutor to my friend, Walter.

  • Branwell, who used to enliven us, is to leave us in a few days, and enter the situation of a private tutor in the neighbourhood of Ulverston.

  • And has asked whether I hadn’t better have a private tutor in Latin in the holidays,” continued the outraged David.

  • He appeared to be quite content with this state of affairs, except in so far that it might lead to having a private tutor in the holidays, whereas to Bags it all seemed a gross miscarriage of justice.

  • Leaving Eton at sixteen, Frederick Leveson went to a private tutor in Nottinghamshire, and there he first developed his interest in politics.

  • So much for the curriculum of Tinwell; but it only lasted for one year, and then, after two years with a private tutor at home, Charles Wood went to Eton in January, 1853.

  • Returning from his French pilgrimage, he wept to a private tutor in Northamptonshire, who reported that "Holland was quite unique in charm and goodness, but would never be a scholar.

  • At the age of nine, when I was still living in the country, and was being educated by a private tutor, a passionate affection for him took possession of me.

  • Here, the sons of a wealthy Berlin family were mishandled by a private tutor to such an extent that one of the children died.

  • By no means rare are sexual inclinations on the part of boys towards their masters--in some cases a private tutor; in others, a schoolmaster.

  • A man thirty-seven years of age, supposed to have formerly been a private tutor, took boarders into his house for love, and not because he made his living by doing so.

  • When upwards of twenty-five years old he commenced the study of Latin under Alexander Martin, sent from Princeton College, a private tutor in the family of a gentleman in Cumberland.

  • Henry receiving his early education from a private tutor at home, afterwards pursued his studies at the College of New Jersey, under the presidency of Dr.

  • Thomas Martin, the parish minister, a private tutor in his father's family.

  • London, was, about 1576, a private tutor of languages at Oxf.

  • His education was entrusted to a private tutor, with whom he travelled extensively on the Continent.

  • I attempted mathematics, and even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly.

  • I did not therefore proceed to Cambridge at the usual time in October, but worked with a private tutor in Shrewsbury, and went to Cambridge after the Christmas vacation, early in 1828.

  • I was taught Euclid by a private tutor, and I distinctly remember the intense satisfaction which the clear geometrical proofs gave me.

  • Not without some interest are the different ways and means by which I secured my appointments as private tutor, and for curiosity's sake, I will relate them here.

  • If it is given me, I've determined to exchange the air of Berlin, which does not agree very well with the constitution of a private tutor, for some more favorable climate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and well; gradually increased; private affairs; private apartments; private business; private cabinet; private charity; private citizens; private corporation; private dining; private families; private houses; private individual; private individuals; private inquiry; private judgment; private letters; private life; private marriage; private room; private schools; private sector; private view; said the elder brother; various plants; well satisfied