When I was a boy, I always thought that the best part of my schooldays was the breaking-up day!. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life] Reference
That said, I might try it with the next group of businesspeople I get, just to see if they recall their schooldays. From Wordnik.com. [L is for Lockstep « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
This is one of the expeditions I have looked forward to all my life, ever since I read "The Lady of the Lake" in schooldays. From Wordnik.com. [The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career] Reference
For example, he recalled his schooldays in Ireland, and how one day he set out to visit his elder brother, the boy lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
A story is told of John's schooldays which is an amusing and quite characteristic instance of his ethical eccentricities. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
"Everybody will tell you," he proceeded, "that your schooldays are the best time of your life. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life] Reference
"schooldays" covers well over a decade, but the action in this book covers only a few days. From Wordnik.com. [Glyn Severn's Schooldays] Reference
He told about his schooldays, and I told about mine. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
Another group knew escort Thompson from her schooldays. From Wordnik.com. ['Everyone wants a footballer' at Manchester's top celebrity haunt] Reference
Here is a story of the late Lord Haversham's schooldays. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
We all know this from our schooldays and our workplaces. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time to Play Beat-the-Bully] Reference
But in those schooldays he was, of all my foes, the worst. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
Selwyn's schooldays were passed at Eton with Gray and Walpole. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
From our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Grace] Reference
Then she met a girl who knew the missing student from schooldays. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
I heard the phrases familiar to me in my schooldays at Kirkcaple. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
It was in the midst of my medical schooldays and in the unrestraint of. From Wordnik.com. [Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway] Reference
I hope we shall be friends for the rest of our schooldays and forever after. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics] Reference
Apparently we have made very little progress since my schooldays in the '80s. From Wordnik.com. [Sabrina Parsons: Mommy What Color is Her Face?] Reference
Dr Davison Sadza, a medical doctor and a close friend since their schooldays. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Afterward, Roddy would live with them at the Cape until his schooldays were over. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Doughty, whose schooldays were not yet ended, went down to a convent at Newhall, in Essex. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
It is, of course, true that we do not learn the essentials of our country in our schooldays. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
It is true that, during my schooldays, I did perpetrate three full-grown novels in manuscript. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
Perhaps pain is a necessary part of being fifteen; what would we have been told in schooldays?. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
“Praskovya has always been too sentimental from the old schooldays upwards,” she reflected. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
Many years afterwards the Emperor, when revisiting Cassel, thus referred to his schooldays there. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
I remember, from schooldays, the somewhat sententious saying, "It is cruel to mock the afflicted". From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
And if at last they despaired of ever doing so-why, by that time their schooldays were nearly over. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
When schooldays began he had come eagerly to the Iliad, coloring it with the Achilles of the tales. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Ah, what nostalgia for those far-off Luton schooldays with their constant demonstrations of English fair play!. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It might be well to enumerate the steps in berry and soft-fruit canning, or do what we called in our schooldays "review it". From Wordnik.com. [Every Step in Canning] Reference
Thus began what may be called the classic period of our schooldays, the thing we both think of first when boyhood is mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
It reminded him of his schooldays, since all the architectural features seemed several sizes larger than he personally required. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
His mind had been formed during our schooldays and he had perhaps learned his attitude to other dogs from our attitude to other boys. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
He was too much of a coward, too used, ever since his schooldays, to walking about with his head hanging and receiving kicks in the behind. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Revolver]
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