Joseph, you may thank the Lord you were not bred at a public school; you would never have preserved your virtue as you have.
Believe me, child, all that gentleman's misfortunes arose from his being educated at a public school.
My education was liberal, and at a public school, in which I proceeded so far as to become master of the Latin, and to be tolerably versed in the Greek language.
Herbert considers that all which is learnt at Sandhurst--all the knowledge requisite for a line officer--might equally well be acquired at a public school, if proper arrangements were made for teaching it.
In England, boys begin swaggering about their social position as soon as they leave the nursery, and if you would have some fun, you should follow groups of public school-boys in the playground or on their way home.
Scaife got his Flannels; and at Lord's his fielding was mentioned as the finest ever seen in a Public School match.
Thirdly, there was the first Sunday, and the first sermon of the Head Master, with its plain teaching about the opportunities and perils of Public School life.
When he was eighteen years old he was made principal of Public School No.
Spence, Carey and Tiddy made up the number; the last were quite the ordinary Public School type, their conversation ran entirely on games, scandal and the work they had not done.
I was the kind of a boy who gets the most out of a public school.
Breakfast is always rather a scramble, and nowhere more so than at a Public School.
In a boarding House at a public school it is not, as a general rule, absolutely necessary to keep one's valuables always hermetically sealed.
There is nothing of Black Monday about the first day of term at a public school.
For a young chap like myself, without any special qualification or training, but full of keenness, with good physique and just out of a public school, the trenches are emphatically the place.
Ian Hay says somewhere that a senior boy at a public school is a far more serious and responsible being than an undergraduate.
A Balliol scholarship for four years, and this to have been secured by the captain of a public school 1st XV that has won four out of its five great school matches!
Stephen entered Saint Dominic's thoroughly crestfallen, and fully convinced he was the most ignorant boy that ever entered a public school.
He opened his school in Washington in the old corporation school-house, built in 1806, but some years before this period abandoned as a public school-house.
Now and then a lad with a scholarship forced his way to the head of a public school, and carried off the highest honours at the University.
When it was done, when he had acquired as much knowledge as any average boy from the best public school, when he had read in the Poly Reading Room all that there was to read, what was he to do?
He found the experience intimidating, because he was not yet old enough to have learnt self-confidence and he had never passed through the ordeal either of a first term at a public school or of a first term at the University.
A school for the sons of gentlemen--a public school.
Miriam at home, the Greys at Wychford, and in some ways most of all Richard Ford at Fairfield gave him in a few months the poise he would have received more gradually from a public school education.
You haven't had a public school education, and inasmuch as I stand to you in loco parentis I should consider myself most culpable if I didn't do everything possible to give you a fair start.
I always look upon a fellow who's learnt anything at a Public School as a self-educated man!
Now, if you are going to look like a Ministering Child or a Little Willie, the Sunbeam of the Home, when you go to a public school, you must take the consequences.
A head-waiter at a fashionable restaurant is cordial in his manner compared with a boy who has been at a public school a year, when addressed familiarly by a new boy.
I know what a hard time a new boy has at a public school if he has got nobody to take care of him at first.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public school" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
