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fellow worker — especially in a respected profession such as teaching, medicine, or law
- Then I knew her: she was Mary Beth Baird, our old Sunday school colleague and the girl Owen had selected for the role of the Virgin Mary.p. 579.4
- At Bishop Strachan, I have long argued with my colleagues that we should teach Hardy in Grade 13—even Grade 12 is too soon!p. 318.8
- In the staff room, Evelyn Barber, one of my colleagues in the English Department, asked me what I thought of the contra-aid article in The Globe and Mail.p. 329.4
- That got quite a few laughs from my colleagues, who were expecting a diatribe from me; on the one hand, they complain about my "predictable politics," but they are just like the students—they enjoy getting me riled up.p. 329.5
- I have spent twenty years teaching teenagers; I don't know if I've been a maturing influence on any of them, but they have turned me and my colleagues into teenagers.p. 329.7
- In the staff room, my colleagues were yapping about the school elections; the elections were yesterday, when I noticed an impatient thrill in morning chapel—before the balloting for head girl.p. 329.7
- My new colleague's name is Eleanor Pribst, and I would love to read what Jane Austen might have written about her.p. 537.1
- And my new colleague—Ms.p. 557.2
There are no more uses of "colleague" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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