"Dominie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kirk is disturbed wi' his hauckin' and sneezin' The dominie stoppit when leadin' the psalm; The minister, deav'd out o' logic and reason, Pours gall in the lugs that are gapi' for balm. The auld folks look surly, the young chaps jocose, While the bodie himsel' ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... Divine Word; but alas! Senor Don Jose, who is an eminent savant, would laugh at theology, at faith, at revelation, at the holy prophets, at the gospel. A poor ignorant priest, an unhappy man who knows neither mathematics, nor German philosophy with its ego and its non ego, a poor dominie, who knows only the science of God and something of the Latin poets, cannot enter into combat ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos
... a' about the question o' forced labour, seeing that he lived when baith white and black men were sold for a price. However, siller in the hand answers a' questions and the dominie made a vera true observe one Sabbath, when he said that the Almighty so ordered things in this warld that orthodoxy and good living led to wealth ...
— The Bow of Orange Ribbon - A Romance of New York • Amelia E. Barr
... "But you know, Dominie," she used to say, wagging her head like a profound and thoughtful bird; "this is all very foolish and shortsighted on my part. Five years from now that gutter-godling of yours will be doing work that will ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... Odds O'er Moor and Fen The Wilderness Rosaleen O'Hara The Soul of Dominie Wildthorne Follow the Gleam David Baring ...
— Tommy • Joseph Hocking
... making great progress in the Single and Mother's Carritch. What is more, few could fickle me in the Bible, being mostly able to spell it all over, save the second of Ezra and the seventh of Nehemiah, which the Dominie himself could never read through twice in the same way, ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various
... sup wi' a cutty than want a spune. Cutty means anything short, stumpy, and not of full growth; frequently applied to a short-handled horn spoon. As Meg Merrilies says to the bewildered Dominie, "If ye dinna eat instantly, by the bread and salt, I'll put it down your throat wi' the ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay |
