It was the same even when we were at boarding-school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

You've got clothes enough to supply a boarding-school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

He has all the airs and graces of a boarding-school miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

'The fact is,' he said, 'it is high time you went to boarding-school!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

These gesticulations are not in harmony with boarding-school etiquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Beckwith's next movement was the establishment of a boarding-school for girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference

Then she advertised her school as a boarding-school for young ladies of colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference

The daughter scornfully remarked: "She has been to a boarding-school, you know.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

One was the principalship of a boarding-school somewhere in West Virginia, in which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

We met her last spring when she came up from a boarding-school in New York to visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

"I was a miserable homesick wretch, spending the winter in a German boarding-school.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference

She was sent to the boarding-school which was kept by her old teacher, Colonel Stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

I sent my Lydia to a boarding-school once, but it was one of a different kind to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

Miss Sally kept a boarding-school and Miss Betsy took lodgers in the wide chambers of St. John's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

'That girl's just the same as in jail at that boarding-school,' says I. 'Have you forgotten her?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

Charlestown, after his wife had aided the doctor's wife in preparing the child for boarding-school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

He wishes you to be brought up under home influences rather than at a boarding-school among strangers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

The next best thing to attending Mrs. Hale's big boarding-school is to read Beulah's experience there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages] Reference

There are two or three little boarding-school misses here whose mothers are dying for them to show off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The word "boarding-school" was to me, perhaps, the vaguest and most indefinite in the English language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

He is funny, clever and charming -- but he's not an old-tie, boarding-school boy, nor is he Oxford or Cambridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet The Wizard] Reference

Not very long ago, Mr. Harrison kept a boarding-school for little boys in a delightful village in Hertfordshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls] Reference

"Oh, no! When I was about your age I went to boarding-school, and everything was changed and different after that.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

Here is the "Life and Opinions of John Buncle," a book which it is better that boarding-school misses should not read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference

These are people expert at boarding-school blasé, at hiding a seething need to win behind a veil of bumbling nonchalance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Win-at-All-Costs President] Reference

He was always at a boarding-school, and we only saw him for the holidays, and then he went abroad directly he left school.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

Of course a child in a house is rather a nuisance, but in another year or two mother means to send him to a boarding-school.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Me and Nobbles'] Reference

But, Sir Anthony, I would send her at nine years old to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

The fox first made his way into the grounds of the reverend Mr. Davies's boarding-school, at Campton, where the boys were at play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

The other day the head of a boarding-school noticed one of the boys wiping his knife on the table-cloth, and pounced on him at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Pun Book] Reference

Then, in order that her eldest daughter might not be so far from the boarding-school where she was employed as teacher of music, Madame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Couldn't we raise more money this year, enough to support another school, or to pay for a girl or boy in a boarding-school somewhere?".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Missionary Twig] Reference

Already some of the girls had received boxes from home -- those delightful surprise boxes that give such a zest to boarding-school life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

She was a brown-haired woman, with cheeks like a damask rose, and Henry was the only child of the house, and was away at a boarding-school.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference