All 7 Uses
pedagogue
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.†
- The pedagogue's mouth watered as he looked upon this sumptuous promise of luxurious winter fare.†
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- Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!†
- Was her encouragement of the poor pedagogue all a mere sham to secure her conquest of his rival?†
- The hair of the affrighted pedagogue rose upon his head with terror.†
- As he was a bachelor, and in nobody's debt, nobody troubled his head any more about him; the school was removed to a different quarter of the hollow, and another pedagogue reigned in his stead.†
- The schoolhouse being deserted soon fell to decay, and was reported to be haunted by the ghost of the unfortunate pedagogue and the plowboy, loitering homeward of a still summer evening, has often fancied his voice at a distance, chanting a melancholy psalm tune among the tranquil solitudes of Sleepy Hollow.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(pedagogue) someone who educates young people -- especially one who enforces unnecessary rules
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)