The Morgans' certainly meant plenty of noise and cheerful clatter, the short tramp of schoolboy feet, huge smoking dishes liberally dispensed.
I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a schoolboy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them.
Robert, exploding with schoolboy wit: 'an Apollo-guy, you mean.
Some records of his schoolboy days are still left us.
On one of the pages of this quaint book he had written these four lines of schoolboy doggerel: "Abraham Lincoln, His Hand and Pen, He Will be Good, But God knows when.
Robert Louis Stevenson knew what he was doing when he discussed every sentence of Treasure Island with his schoolboy step-son before giving it its final form.
If a strong man lifted a bag of potatoes we should think no more about it; but if a schoolboy picked it up and ran off with it we should be speechless with amazement.
Every schoolboy knows the story of the Grecian coward whose name was Alexander.
The performer now proceeds: "This any schoolboy can do; but I dare say you do not think it possible for me to remove this paper and yet retain the water in the tumbler.
He then addresses the company, remarking that they are, no doubt, familiar with the schoolboy trick of holding an inverted tumbler of water, with merely a sheet of paper to keep the contents from falling to the ground.
The lady finished what she was doing, and kept Alfred standing like a schoolboy going to be lectured.
The door opened, and in darted a grey-headed man, with handsome but strongly marked features, laughing and shouting like a schoolboy broke loose.
I have a schoolboy brother," answered Hope demurely.
So spoke Philippa in her wisdom, but Barney was too much of a schoolboy to condescend to warm and nourishing diet while sweetmeats were within his reach.
Mr Andrew Home understands and can write about the average schoolboy with clearness, humour, and adequate knowledge.
All guaranteed to fill the heart of every schoolboy with keenest joy.
Having a quick sense of the ridiculous, and a most Oriental and schoolboy knack at a nickname, they thereupon gave the sound to the substance, and called the redoubtable garnish of hair, bigotes.
One day a schoolboy stood on the stone steps before the old State House, in Philadelphia, as the first President of the United States was driven up to make his formal visit to Congress.
Stevenson was essentially the robust schoolboywho draws skeletons and gibbets in his Latin grammar.
The man of the nineteenth century, like a schoolboy of sixteen, believes that his doubt and depression are symbols of the end of the world.
Jim, standing up like a schoolboy going to say his lesson.
I felt like a king, and as for what might come afterwards I had no more thought than a schoolboy has of his next year's lessons at the beginning of his holidays.
Thus, a schoolboy may be often heard to exclaim, “What did you hit me for, you great fool?
Far away stretched the old oaks that girdled Macon with greenery, where Sidney Lanier and his brother Clifford used to spend their schoolboy Saturdays among the birds and rabbits.
Ever since the tragedy of the Hellespont, it has been the ambition of poets to perform a noteworthy swimming feat, and one of Poe's schoolboy memories was of his six-mile swim from Ludlam's Wharf to Warwick Bar.
We shall therefore give no heed to those who decry the danger of some schoolboy games.
Every teacher knows this, if every schoolboy does not.
It all came to an end, and now it appears that in Canada they are beginning to find that the great thing is to give a schoolboy a mind that will do anything; when the time comes "you will train your banker in a bank.
Schoolboy honour is not always a faultless thing; sometimes it means the hiding of real iniquity.
Schoolboy opinion is rightly intolerant of a "funk," and we should not attach too small a value to this first of the manly virtues.
Often it happens that senators are so fresh from school as to be unable to forget their schoolboy phraseology, and to address the Speaker in the exact terms they used but the other day to the master of their Form.
The schoolboy who has obtained his exeat for a few days as he bounds off to the station to catch his train, may be thought to have left all care behind him.
The exercise brought his blood into circulation; he felt rejuvenated, a schoolboy playing truant, free, defiantly free!
While this lasted he was sacred from injury; the very schoolboy would not fling a stone at him, and the merest rustic would pause to listen to his strain.
It is only because you are a stupid, ignorant littleschoolboy that you think it funny to be unkind to girls.
Norah understood that he was proud of his driving, and wished to impress her with the fact that it was very unlike a schoolboy performance.
She kept the poor judge with the case in his hand until seven o'clock, keeping on fidgeting and moving about like a schoolboy let loose; but as La Portillone kept on trying to put the thread in, he could not help it.
And make sure that this Joseph suspected the pretty white of this sweet girl's breasts, which were by a modest grace carefully covered with an old rag, and looked at them as a schoolboy looks at a rosy apple on a hot day.
Howbeit, I am a schoolboy prating in presence of his master, for here is John Clement at my elbow, who is the best botanist and herbalist of us all.
They still detain the old man from his pillow, and the schoolboy from his studies.
Mr. John Mackenzie, in speaking of Edgar, bore witness to his high spirit and pluckiness in occasional schoolboy encounters, and also to his timidity in regard to being alone at night and his belief in and fear of the supernatural.
This account of the rupture between Poe and the Allans I heard from the Mackenzies and Mrs. Julia Mayo Cabell, wife of Poe's schoolboy friend, Dr.
Of Poe as a schoolboy various accounts have been given by former schoolmates, with most of whom he was very popular, while others represent him as reserved and not generally liked.
A dull schoolboy examined by his master in the presence of his parents, and the mirth produced by his blunders and their ignorance, formed also a favourite subject among these farces.
To the connexion of the Cosways with Flanders was ascribed their ownership of certain valuable works by Rubens, which first lit up a love of painting in the heart of young Cosway, and made him an idle schoolboy and an indefatigable artist.
And now this interfering schoolboy had undone the work of weeks.
