Citations:master


 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * Sir, here is a traveller, who was bid by an acquaintance of the good-man of this house to call here for my profit; I would therefore speak with the master of the house.
 * This schoolmaster taught them the art of getting, either by violence, cozenage, flattery, lying, or by putting on the guise of religion; and these four gentlemen had attained much of the art of their master, so that they could each of them have kept such a school themselves.
 * The Shepherds told them, This is a by-way to hell, a way that hypocrites go in at; namely, such as sell their birthright, with Esau; such as sell their master, with Judas; such as blaspheme the gospel, with Alexander; and that lie and dissemble, with Ananias and Sapphira his wife.


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!"
 * But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
 * In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress.

art, etc

 * 1854, John Weale, The Pictorial Handbook of London Comprising Its Antiquities, Architecture, Arts ... and Scientific Institutions ..., page 417:
 * This pair, and No. 50, The Virgin and Child, are by unknown masters of the school of Cologne, and imitative of Italian art of the fourteenth century.
 * 2006, Michael J. P. Robson, The Franciscans in the Middle Ages, Boydell Press (ISBN 9781843832218), page 8:
 * Artists such as the unnamed master of San Francesco, who was active in the lower basilica, made parallels between the life of Jesus Christ and the founder.
 * 2008, George von der Lippe, V. Reck-Malleczewen, A History of the Münster Anabaptists: Inner Emigration and the Third Reich: A Critical Edition of Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen’s Bockelson: A Tale of Mass Insanity, Springer (ISBN 9780230612563), page 41:
 * In 1534 not sixty years has passed since the unknown master of the Peringstörff Altar painted the vision of Saint Bernardus: the sinful creature kneeling before Christ on the cross, crying out and grappling with the tortured God ...
 * 2018, Ine Wouters, Stephanie van de Voorde, Inge Bertels, Bernard Espion, Krista de Jonge, Denis Zastavni, Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories: Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium, CRC Press (ISBN 9780429013621), page 997:
 * All this suggests that the unknown master of Assier had a thorough knowledge of the Valencian methods but adopted a more flexible approach to the tracing of bed joints.




 * 2020, Paul Goldin, The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them, Princeton University Press (ISBN 9780691200811), page 245:
 * The unnamed master of “Record of Signs” (“Biaoji”表記) recognizes the trend: whereas “the men of Yin (i.e., Shang) honored spirits and led its people to serve them”,

Skilled Person

 * No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.
 * No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.
 * No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.