- DOMINIE, SAMPSON
- a schoolmaster in "Guy Mannering," "a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life."
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
DOMINIE, SAMPSON
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