word-master

They contain many a lesson of the word-master, who, though he did not attain the Academy, left the French language gold, which he found marble.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

He was often at the gypsy encampment on Mousehold, a heath just outside Norwich, where, under the tuition of his host, he learned the Romany tongue with such rapidity as to astonish his instructor and earn for him among the gypsies the name of "Lav - engro," word-fellow or word-master.

The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912

Not only did he retain it himself, but he was word-master enough to make other people hark back to it also.

Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

Not only did he retain it himself, but he was word-master enough to make other people hark back to it also.

Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

I have before me scores of pages which reveal the way that Borrow became a lav-engro -- a word-master.

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

It is a book for your true Borrovian, who is thankful for any information about the word-master, not for the casual reader, who might indeed be alienated from the subject by this copious memoir.

George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

That a "word-master" so abnormal is apt to be deficient in logical sense seems to have been

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

The word-master, in disabusing the postilion of this idea, gave utterance to the conviction that he might search the world in vain for a nature more heroic and devoted.

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

The word-master, who meditated passing the summer as an amateur vagrant, and had some 15 or 16 pounds in his pocket, conceived the idea of buying the pony-cart, the implements and the beat of the tinker, one Jack Slingsby, whose face he remembered having seen some ten years before.

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

Almost simultaneously the word-master, albeit with reluctance, decided that it was high time to give over his "mocking and scoffing."

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842