How To Use Schoolfellow In A Sentence

  • This absorption in such pursuits, totally unintelligible to his schoolfellows, who were then totally ignorant of mathematics, procured him a not very complimentary nickname.
  • After a brief apprenticeship to a surgeon, and accompanied by an old schoolfellow, the innocent man travels to London, where he encounters various rogues.
  • Occasionally he fell in with a relation, or an old schoolfellow, who addressed him as 'Ned,' or even as 'Eddie,' This made him utterly miserable; in the language of Johnson, when Mr. Lushington was called 'Eddie,' he was convolved with agony -- especially if a third person chanced to be present. Fair Margaret A Portrait
  • The schoolfellow three years, add on two human of disposition comparisons to be congenial, those two arrive the same place, started the love to relate.
  • In 1601 he met up with his old St Peter's schoolfellow Christopher Wright in Madrid and was recruited into the plot to kill King James.
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  • He went to the flat of one of his schoolfellows and came out, an hour later, irrecognizable, rigged out as an Englishman of thirty, in a brown check suit, with knickerbockers, woolen stockings and a cap, a high-colored complexion and a red wig. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
  • And I cannot help avowing that this was the first occasion on which I really did justice to the clear head, and the plain, patient, practical good sense, of my old schoolfellow. David Copperfield
  • Tania described the encounter between Toni and his schoolfellow, the carabiniere's nephew. MURKY SHALLOWS
  • After I had written to my aunt and told her of my fortunate meeting with my admired old schoolfellow, and my acceptance of his invitation, we went out in a hackney – chariot, and saw a Panorama and some other sights, and took David Copperfield
  • They're referred to as ‘schoolfellows,’ so it's quite likely they were at Wittenberg (their namesakes appear in the university rosters in the 1500s), but they could have been pre-university schoolfellows.
  • When the pain inflicted by his bullying schoolfellow exceeded the pain-pleasure ratio, he upped and ran away from Repton.
  • Sandra stayed at home, away from the taunts and jibes of her white schoolfellows, and illicitly befriended the children of the family's black nanny.
  • Friend and schoolfellow of Victor and Elizabeth from childhood; murdered by the Creature. Henry Clerval
  • Born in Aix-en-Provence, the son of a prosperous banker and schoolfellow of Émile Zola, he initially studied law, but after enrolling at the Academy at Aix began to pursue a career as a painter.
  • I met my old schoolfellow, the captain of the “Palm Tree.” Pillars of Society
  • When there was any riot in the streets, I fled, and scougged myself at the chimley-lug as quickly as I dowed; and, rather than double a nieve to a schoolfellow, I pocketed many shabby epithets, got my paiks, and took the coucher's blow from laddies that could hardly reach up to my waistband. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • He did not join in the sports of other boys, and he was even made the victim of cruel practical jokes by some schoolfellows.
  • And yet he was convinced that nothing had hampered him and his schoolfellows so much as the grammatical perfectionism drummed into them by teachers.
  • Although nicknamed ‘Dafty’ by his schoolfellows at Edinburgh Academy, he had a fertile and brilliant mind.
  • Dobbin is horribly bullied by his schoolfellows at Dr Swishtail's when it is discovered (after young Osborne ‘sneaks’ on him) that his father is a grocer.
  • The Jesuits may even have been enlightened enough to make available newly invented optical instruments, on sale in Paris as early as 1609, to Descartes and his schoolfellows.
  • Your favourite schoolfellow, Louis Manoir, has suffered several misfortunes since the departure of Clerval from Chapter 6
  • ‘In case you do,’ said I, ‘pray say that I am sorry he was not here today, as an old schoolfellow of his was here.’ David Copperfield
  • He also wrote several essays in "The Freethinker;" and was the reputed author of a tragedy called "Hecuba;" which was performed at Drury Lane theatre in 1726.] (134) Tydeus, Orosmades, Almanzor, and Plato, were names which had been given by them to some of their Eton schoolfellows. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • In response to rejection by his schoolfellows, Haru befriends a group of Chinese kids, the social outcast and the foreigner finding kinship in their shared oppression.
  • Sandra stayed at home, away from the taunts and jibes of her white schoolfellows, and illicitly befriended the children of the family's black nanny.
  • He determines to ensnare an old schoolfellow, Heartfree, an innocent and gullible jeweller, who lives happily with his wife and children and his amiable apprentice Friendly.
  • Caleb sat next his daughter; Dot and her old schoolfellow were side by side; the good Carrier took care of the bottom of the table. The Cricket on the Hearth
  • More importantly, the meeting let us review time the middle school's sentiment of schoolfellow, let us even more treasure this friendship!
  • C — — —, an old schoolfellow, captain of the ship by which The Surgeon's Daughter
  • `Dear heart, may I introduce Dermot Vinney, erstwhile schoolfellow. THE GOLDEN LION

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