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  • I was in the first grade, and my teacher, Miss Cook, always chose me to read aloud when the principal came into the classroom.†   (source)
  • She calls in the principal, and the principal calls in a security guard.†   (source)
  • She was the vice-principal of Trace Middle, and it was in her dim office cubicle that Roy now sat, awaiting justice.†   (source)
  • Though Pete earned grades little better than Louie's failing ones, his principal assumed that he was a straight-A student.†   (source)
  • You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships.†   (source)
  • June swore off men and said she would never get married, and then she met Neil when he came to be the new principal at her school.†   (source)
  • At school, Theo studied, Doug Hoo ran, and Turtle was twice sent to the principal's office for having been caught with a transistor radio plugged in her ear.†   (source)
  • "Hey, Cassie," said Mary Lou Wellever, the principal's daughter, as she flounced by in a new yellow dress.†   (source)
  • Our Principal Mr. Eph Evans, states: "We are grateful to Mrs. Prior for remembering us along with her many other benefactions."†   (source)
  • She'd talked with the principal.†   (source)
  • To facilitate my adjustment, the principal arranged for us to meet my new teacher, Mrs. Sandberg, a few days before I started school.†   (source)
  • This is also Red Coast's offensive component, its principal part.†   (source)
  • As usual, the members of the Triumvirate walked from the principal's office to the stairwell in silence.†   (source)
  • I later became so concerned about Rick that I went to the assistant principal about him.†   (source)
  • The principal, valedictorian, guest speaker, and the rest of the graduation speakers gave their speeches as Woody fought to stay awake.†   (source)
  • That information was stored in my student profile, but only my principal had access to that.†   (source)
  • The teacher called Mrs. Anthony, the principal, whose eyes got wide as she opened our door.†   (source)
  • …the first and most principal to be, a perfect skill and knowledge in cookery … because it is a duty well belonging to women.†   (source)
  • Then, in a booming voice, Jillson announced, "And now, everyone, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you the esteemed founder, president, and principal of our beloved Institute: Mr. Ledroptha Curtain!"†   (source)
  • The principal.†   (source)
  • That afternoon the principal tried cross-examining me, but I wouldn't cop to anything.†   (source)
  • Their membership included teachers, school principals, doctors, ministers, owners of small businesses, and lawyers.†   (source)
  • It was a tense scene as the principals all turned to face the jury, Simpson, in his blue suit, surrounded by his small army of lawyers, the prosecutors who wanted him behind bars just a few feet away.†   (source)
  • During study hall the principal sent for her.†   (source)
  • The door opened in the middle of math class and the principal pushed the older raggedy kid in.†   (source)
  • PLUS THE PRINCIPAL.†   (source)
  • But Hamachi is one of our principal investors.†   (source)
  • Old Teddybear Kilgour, as we called him, was principal when I was hired.†   (source)
  • They said that the principal of the high school, Mr. Bridges (husband of my language arts teacher), read an announcement.†   (source)
  • And one is here, in a field west of Versailles, inside the tool case of Daniel LeBlanc, principal locksmith for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle.†   (source)
  • Not over the intercom, though, and not from Mr. Faulks, the vice principal.†   (source)
  • Principal Rudin needs to see you.†   (source)
  • Just then Principal Long appeared at the door.†   (source)
  • But the principal domain of the junior probationers was the sluice room.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, that's how Freak and I get sent to the principal's office the first time together.†   (source)
  • Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigura — " "Oh, speak English, can't you?"†   (source)
  • Chassey was the girl who'd hacked into the school's computer system and then told the principal how to better secure it, and Phi Templeton went everywhere with a yo-yo— enough said.†   (source)
  • For the third time that week, he sat in the "Oh-manyou-in-trouble-now" chair in the principal's office and waited for the nun to come out and yell at him once more.†   (source)
  • "The principal would like to see you, dear," Mrs. Dewitt confided in a hush.†   (source)
  • We listened to the principal.†   (source)
  • I felt like I'd been summoned to the principal's office.†   (source)
  • The nurse returns in a few minutes with Mr. Hansen the principal, and two of my teachers, Miss Woods and Mr. Ziegler.†   (source)
  • My home isn't far but it's not close either, and somehow I got it in my head one day to ask my mother to make me a sandwich and write a note to the principal so I could eat in the canteen too.†   (source)
  • I am your principal, Mrs. Lapidus.†   (source)
  • He took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island, which was his principal occupation for much of his adult years.†   (source)
  • Most of the principal houses of the Vale were represented.†   (source)
  • I've never been sent to the principal's office!†   (source)
  • And an assistant principal.†   (source)
  • Downs was a PE teacher as well as head football coach, but he had a sub Tuesday and another one Wednesday, and both days he'd had meetings with the principal and the athletic director.†   (source)
  • Which was one step up from his father who had always made me stand before him like a school kid sent to the principal's office.†   (source)
  • I have to see the principal before she leaves.†   (source)
  • Indeed, willingness of Hopkins scientists to provide access to the cultures is perhaps the principal reason for the great benefits that have derived from their use.†   (source)
  • The dark carpeting was discreetly sumptuous, exotic pot plants and tastefully engraved prints of the principal computer programmers and their families were deployed liberally about the room, and stately windows looked out upon a tree-lined public square.†   (source)
  • In sixth grade my teacher was Mrs. Kuperus, the principal.†   (source)
  • And he was principal of the Battle School.†   (source)
  • This is Principal George.†   (source)
  • It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble—a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal—than what you think of yourself.†   (source)
  • Still, even if someone found it in my locker — whether the principal, or Mr. Detmars the scary basketball coach, or even the Rent-a-Cops from the security firm whom they brought in to scare the students from time to time—still, it would be better than having it found by Dad or Mr. Silver.†   (source)
  • She's stopped caring about school, for one thing, and has been called to the principal's office several times for talking back to the teachers.†   (source)
  • A Tegucigalpa elementary school principal told me that many of his students were so malnourished that they didn't have the stamina to stand up for long at school rallies or to sing the national anthem.†   (source)
  • Mr. G thinks Principal Gupta probably wears a football jersey to bed, with her husband's sweat pants.†   (source)
  • Richard Scarne, the principal stockholder of Fun Time Automatic Machines.†   (source)
  • "This is Jess Matthews, the principal," she said.†   (source)
  • We'll enroll in school… talk to the principal for me, okay?†   (source)
  • It wasn't a skill like being able to name all the capitals and principal products of South America or recite Scripture or walk on top of a fence.†   (source)
  • Some of them take out loans against the principal on the house, or they've sold their parents' homes and use the money in trust to make the payments.†   (source)
  • I make my way to the principal's office so I can register for classes and get started.†   (source)
  • He sat on the transcript for two days, but he knew that eventually he'd have to hand it over to Mr. Simpson, the principal, to pass judgment.†   (source)
  • Places, countries, their populations, principal industries.†   (source)
  • Rogerson showed up just as Principal Hawthorne was making his final speech.†   (source)
  • Eventually he came to Mooers Forks, New York, where, according to the Chicago Tribune, the trustees of the grade school, "impressed with Mudgett's gentlemanly manners," hired him as the school principal, a post he held until he at last opened a medical practice.†   (source)
  • Rain is the principal element of spring.†   (source)
  • The principal had to stay late to help, and they had to arrange two special late buses to get all the kids home.†   (source)
  • Sky provided the only drama, and counting on a Cincinnati horizon for life's principal joy was reckless indeed.†   (source)
  • Nollie's family we saw more often, as their school—of which Flip was now principal—was right in Haarlem.†   (source)
  • At seven o'clock, the principal got up and welcomed us all to an exciting new year of growth and opportunity at Washington Irving Junior High School.†   (source)
  • Although Mr. Likens, the Coalwood School principal, controlled the junior high school with a firm hand, the Great Six held sway in the grades below.†   (source)
  • The Zeitouns were a high-achieving clan, full of doctors and school principals and generals and business owners, all of them with a passion for the sea.†   (source)
  • The principal said Cameron could have been suspended for a week for the prank, but removed him from classes for just a day.†   (source)
  • After finagling ourselves out of a visit to the principal's office, we limped home.†   (source)
  • When Dad first became principal, there were no funds due to the massive bureaucratic maze he had to get through to get them.†   (source)
  • It's used in a court of law, not in a principal's office.†   (source)
  • I might have been a child facing the school principal over a series of unexcused absences.†   (source)
  • "Blowing in the Wind," and because Mr. Turner, the principal, insisted, "God Bless America."†   (source)
  • When she was questioned by the Principal about her behavior (cajoled, caned, starved), she eventually admitted that she had done it to find out whether breasts hurt.†   (source)
  • What I saw was principally field upon field rolling off into the far distance.†   (source)
  • The principal told Tammy he had called our mother.†   (source)
  • The next morning I went to the principal's office and added my name to the list of candidates.†   (source)
  • You the one the principal talking about.†   (source)
  • We can use the principal's office for a few minutes so that you can brief me about whatever allegations have been made.†   (source)
  • Assistant Principal†   (source)
  • He meets next with Ben Hong, a close friend of Crane's and assistant principal cellist.†   (source)
  • The girls were on the principal seat and he sat opposite them, facing, the back of the carriage.†   (source)
  • Of course the principal called me in.†   (source)
  • "Do you feel well enough to go to class?" he whispered when we were past the principal.†   (source)
  • The principal, Erik Karlsen, wrapped a blanket around her shoulders and sat her down next to a steam radiator before going out to run his car engine.†   (source)
  • Plato wrote a number of Dialogues, or dramatized discussions on philosophy, in which he uses Socrates as his principal character and mouthpiece.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bekku's principal job as dresser was to tie the obi, which isn't as simple a job as it might sound.†   (source)
  • Dear Little Book, This morning without warning, I was summoned to the principal's office, and my heart dropped when I saw Minerva there, too.†   (source)
  • She looked over toward the school principal's house and to the right at Mr. McElroy's.†   (source)
  • The vice principal, Dr. Thorn.†   (source)
  • Virchow found a region impoverished by absentee landlordism, where the people, mainly Polish, lived principally on potatoes and vodka and suffered from endemic malaria and dysentery.†   (source)
  • I was standing at the head of the table shakingthe principal's hand, when Papa rose, his face ceremoniously grave, and acknowledged the other parents with his most respectful gesture.†   (source)
  • We passed the bald eagle (which is also the nickname for the principal of our high school), the white-tailed deer, tahr goats, three white-bearded gnu, lions in a pit, one otter, a black leopard, a striped hyena ("a raider of graves"), two cheetahs that were fighting, four Bengal tigers, a Kodiak bear, an American bear, a polar bear, two hippos ("which secrete a fluid the color of blood all over their body"), an eight-ton bull elephant, and a giant anteater.†   (source)
  • "The secretary dialed the police, then ran off to find the principal" "Vee!"†   (source)
  • For Bobby, as he was to learn before nightfall, was their principal suspect.†   (source)
  • She trusted all the grown-ups and teachers and principals to keep her safe.†   (source)
  • These new principals were generally younger and less schooled, but possessed the religious zeal that had now become the first priority of government.†   (source)
  • I knew I'd be called into the new principal's office at some point during the year, but I didn't expect it to be on the first day of school.†   (source)
  • This was meant to soften a face, the principal quality of which had always been a spare, fragile boniness.†   (source)
  • He was not above criticism—in fact, he was often the principal target of it.†   (source)
  • As the announcement stated, it was a beautiful map, in many colors, showing principal roads, rivers and seas, towns and cities, mountains, and valleys, intersections and detours, and sites of outstanding interest both beautiful and historic.†   (source)
  • When he finally runs down after a pre-set number of years, the town loves him dearly and the paper prints his picture helping the Boy Scouts last year on Graveyard Cleaning Day, and his wife gets a letter from the principal of the high school how Maxwell Wilson Taber was an inspirational figure to the youth of our fine community.†   (source)
  • He was actually a principal scientist at another company owned by Corning, called Hazleton Washington.†   (source)
  • The principal of Indian Creek had given the Fugees use of the field with the understanding that she wasn't offering much: there were no lights, no soccer goals, no bathrooms.†   (source)
  • At first the gull's principal hardship was lack of water.†   (source)
  • He sounds like a principal or a police chief, the sort of dude with a big neck, who never has to watch his back.†   (source)
  • When we first started these lessons, it had been from either side of his ridiculous desk; it felt like I was squaring off against a school principal, not being guided through a Psi lesson by my freak guru.†   (source)
  • I was still concerned the principal would figure out I had never finished eleventh grade, so I didn't put up a fight.†   (source)
  • An hour later they left the road altogether, the truck laboring over a dirt track across rolling fields, a great and fallow baldios such as was common to that country where feral cattle the color of candle-wax come up out of the arroyos to feed at night like alien principals.†   (source)
  • In case she is caught and hauled into the principal's office, she could point to the wrong answers as proof that she didn't cheat.†   (source)
  • It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.†   (source)
  • She got the teacher and the principal by the sleeve and said to have a word or two in the hall.†   (source)
  • The principal aspect he worried over most was that marriage required men and women to live together.†   (source)
  • At the ribbon cutting, the Americans were welcomed by a sea of excited Cambodians--led by a principal who was missing a leg, a landmine victim himself.†   (source)
  • My principal nearly went out of his mind trying to keep up with the calls that had resulted from my project.†   (source)
  • She had come to this office principally because it was an easier commute for her and a slot had come open.†   (source)
  • "Adam Leroy Brown," Principal Williams spoke into the microphone.†   (source)
  • So he sent another retired principal dancer from the Central Ballet, ZhangCe, to be the new vice director of our academy in charge of technical standards.†   (source)
  • Hewing principally to the rugged Indus River Gorge, the KKH has cost the life of one road worker for each of its four hundred kilometers.†   (source)
  • He ended up bruised, scraped, and in the principal's office.†   (source)
  • The principal called them into his office and told them they couldn't play on the playground until they'd fixed the stepladder.†   (source)
  • She did tell them certain things as they went along: "That is the door to the dungeons," she would say, or "That passage leads to the principal torture chambers," or "This was the old banqueting hall where my greatgrandfather bade seven hundred nobles to a feast and killed them all before they had drunk their fill.†   (source)
  • "We have an appointment with Mr. Armour, the principal," she says authoritatively.†   (source)
  • Mr. Heffer, I am Neferet, High Priestess of the House of Night, although it might be easier if you would just think of me as you would any ordinary high school's principal.†   (source)
  • And I walk down the hallway to the principal's office, leaving a hubbub behind me.†   (source)
  • They looked like a bunch of street-struttin' kids auditioning for the Grammys, but the principal swears they'll come out of it eventually" "If they don't, there's always the Academy."†   (source)
  • But this is not the principal thing which I came to tell you.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Asher were talking to Principal Harper on the front steps.†   (source)
  • He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean.†   (source)
  • At Ballou, their names are found on a bulletin board outside the principal's office.†   (source)
  • He took over being principal of the high school.†   (source)
  • On the last day of school she handed out report cards to the other kids, but when it came to me she took me to the principal's office.†   (source)
  • Indeed, was she not the principal culprit determining her mother's fate?†   (source)
  • Then I started walking up the stairs to the principal's office so I could give the note to somebody that would bring it to her in her classroom.†   (source)
  • Lonny was a small-time operator whose principal weakness was an attraction to flawed women.†   (source)
  • Principal wants you in his office now!†   (source)
  • Five right actions, five principal sins, five zones times five regions.†   (source)
  • Then I'd be sent South again to head the college-just as the mayor's cook had been made principal of the school after she'd become too lame to stand before her stove.†   (source)
  • Lurvy shaved and got a haircut; and his principal farm duty was to feed the pig while people looked on.†   (source)
  • In his original plan, General Clinton had said that the principal attacks, while vigorous, should not be pushed too far.†   (source)
  • The principal and teachers, when they recognized who we were, where we ranked, told Sam that he could sweep the narrow halls, clean the bathrooms and shovel coal into the school's furnace, to earn his free lunch.†   (source)
  • The assassin would find the principals irresistible as clients, and both camps would demand the death of Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • Your principal assignment as far as Milton is concerned is to establish the truth.†   (source)
  • I think about the king-sized crucifix nailed to the front of my old principal's desk.†   (source)
  • Nellor et Fils was the principal vehicle by which Horton Nellor and his son, Andrew, invested the family fortune, which was thought to be in excess of four billion dollars.†   (source)
  • "I guess you think I'm some sort of a sick paranoid, but I can't afford to have people calling my job or writing letters to my principal.†   (source)
  • All the years I'd gone to Gaten's school, I'd never been in any kind of trouble, much less something bad enough to be sent to the principal's office.†   (source)
  • The staff drives, does most of the talking to the principals and then translates the message to make sure everyone understands all parts of the message.†   (source)
  • The principal enterprises of the city were medicine and food-processing and the making of cigarettes.†   (source)
  • He is the principal trumpeter of the U.S. Army Band and knows this sad song all too well.†   (source)
  • By the time the principal steps up to the podium to begin the awards ceremony, my entire face has flamed red from my lies.†   (source)
  • To compensate the railroads of the country for the extra costs involved and "to cushion the process of readjustment," a moratorium on payments of interest and principal on all railroad bonds-secured and unsecured, convertible and non-convertible-was declared for a period of five years.†   (source)
  • Mr. Selalame talked to the principal at the elementary and, well, the rest is history.†   (source)
  • Females among the Burnouts were the principal leaders of linguistic change, measured by how completely they adopted the vowel changes in the Northern Cities Shift.†   (source)
  • When Miss Bertha broke up the fight, for once she didn't send us to the principal for a whipping.†   (source)
  • The principal decided the show must go on.†   (source)
  • The seller of record, Mr. Shaw, whom I know quite well, and who, I might add, is the principal agent for the House of Martinez, a slave brokerage that deals almost exclusively in Africans.†   (source)
  • He looks like a little boy who has been sent to the principal's office or to the woodshed to wait for a switching.†   (source)
  • The power of materialist science to explain everything--from the behavior of the galaxies to that of molecules, atoms, and their submicroscopic components--seems to be inarguable and the principal glory of the modern mind.†   (source)
  • We brought other volunteers to help us plan the movement of the principals on the street, the expected crowd, all the starts and stops where the press would have obvious positions for video.†   (source)
  • With a stream of curse words known principally to the fourth class of the Acca-demia San Pietro in Rome, he pulled himself back.†   (source)
  • Philadelphia was its principal center in the East.†   (source)
  • He would be Mrs. McCormick, their public school principal, pressing his lips together until they almost disappeared, fluttering his eyelids.†   (source)
  • At the meeting before school started, with the principal, Mr. Knight, his counselor, Mr. Hellwarth, his father.†   (source)
  • If Principal Wertz hears about this, you're gone before you can say 'suspended,' or worse.†   (source)
  • Direct taxes principally relate to land and buildings, and they may be appropriate for the rule of apportionment.†   (source)
  • Principal Paula O'Raynie just left our house.†   (source)
  • All over the school Merle wrote his name great big, Merle Hucks, and no one, not the teachers or principals could figure out when he did it.†   (source)
  • Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, could speak ten languages and was studying French, Latin, and Greek when he was nine.†   (source)
  • But she's cut her principal in half doling out to Angelini.†   (source)
  • All the national security principals are there.†   (source)
  • The principal was standing there when I got off the bus.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't know a single person there except the teachers and the principal.†   (source)
  • Immediately, behind him a grand procession enters, principally CLAUDIUS, GERTRUDE, POLONIUS and OPHELIA.†   (source)
  • But Sam Hazzard's principal hobby was listening to shortwave radio.†   (source)
  • The principal point of contention among the women of the town appeared to be whether or not I had done a "Christian" thing.†   (source)
  • My health, for the principal thing.†   (source)
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