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Old master   /oʊld mˈæstər/   Listen
Old master

noun
1.
A great European painter prior to 19th century.






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"Old master" Quotes from Famous Books



... Coach at last was turned into a Jewel for your Ladyship. Then, Madam, what Expences his Despair have run him on —As Drinking and Gaming, to divert the Thought of your marrying my old Master. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn

... Jupe. We've only one more journey to make; I hope a short one. At its end we'll meet your old master, and you'll see him get ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... use to wait until he should have saved enough money to take him there. He scarcely earned enough to live on from day to day. So at last, poor as he was, he started off early one morning and said good-bye to his old master and the hard work of the little shop in Perugia. On he went down the same long white road which had seemed so endless to him that day when, as a little child, he first came to Perugia. Even now, when he was a strong young ...
— Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters • Amy Steedman

... these daring men was Jinks' old master, and so terrible had been the mischief done by the jackals, not only to his sheep and cattle, but to his fruits and crops, that he determined, come what might, to destroy as many of the vicious creatures as he could. The villagers and farmers had been ...
— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin

... Buttrick's order to fire, which marked the moment when our country was born. The order was given to British subjects. It was obeyed by American citizens. Among them was old Master Blood, who saw a ball strike the water when the British fired their first volley. I heard many of the old men tell their stories of the Battle of Concord, and of the ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar


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