As when a barrel of small-beer, No matter whether foul or clear, Begins to leak, drop follows drop As fast as wanton schoolboys hop: So quick this valiant Greek kept sighing.
Waving their hats and cheering like schoolboysafter a football match, our men started to run through the scrub towards the silent fort.
And this partially explains why it is said in sober earnest that the highest ambition of most Japanese schoolboys to-day is to die for their Emperor.
As a Republican of some prominence at home said to me in Manila: "A crowd of ten-year-old schoolboys in Chicago would know better how to run a government.
There were quite a number of schoolboys and schoolgirls present.
He reported that Voronok did not go to church, and that he collected schoolboys at his own house in order to read something or other to them.
There was a cheerful hum, and young girls, amused by schoolboys and officials, giggled.
There were also several students, college girls, and grownup schoolboys from the higher gymnasia classes.
But their complaints did not contain quite that poison and steadiness which was instilled into the schoolboys with all the force of a school.
In addition to the outside work the schoolboys were instructed in sewing, and two of them in housework.
Several native men and about twenty schoolboys were sent to his assistance, and after they reached the wagon, Brother Taylor concluded to endeavor to come a little nearer home before resting for the night.
He took along five of the largest schoolboys to assist in carrying the goods across the bridgeless rivers.
A number of the schoolboys were permitted to accompany them for a holiday, but the regular driver for the wagon did not go along.
There were also others of the schoolboys who were stepping out into the light, and among these were Kelenki and Siyaya, who were Mashona people.
The Brethren Taylor and Wenger, with the assistance of the schoolboys and some other natives, moulded and burnt a large kiln of brick.
Then he and Brother Doner, with the help of the schoolboys and some other natives, made and burnt a large kiln of bricks and were ready to begin the house.
It is already dark when the word comes, so we take the lantern and together with several schoolboys start for the village.
But the Glen schoolboys did not know of Walter's dreams and would not have been greatly impressed if they had.
Schoolboys call everything in books or discourse, which is graver or tenderer than they like, "metaphysics.
Alyosha had never from his Moscow days been able to pass children without taking notice of them, and although he was particularly fond of children of three or thereabout, he liked schoolboys of ten and eleven too.
A Meeting With The Schoolboys Chapter IV.
Ilusha had been defending his father when the schoolboys jeered at him, shouting the nickname “wisp of tow.
Not long ago I read the criticism made by a German who had lived in Russia, on our students and schoolboys of to-day.
Instinctively feeling that the time of her mother’s absence was precious for her, Alyosha hastened to tell her of his enigmatic meeting with the schoolboys in the fewest words possible.
That’s the nickname they give to my beard, the schoolboys most of all.
According to a peasant’s notions, schoolboys are whipped, and must be whipped.
Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
I had three fine rosy-cheeked schoolboys for my fellow-passengers inside, full of the buxom health and manly spirit which I have observed in the children of this country.
He was the life of a common room at Oxford, romped with the schoolboys when he visited Dr.
Still, with rainbows in their eyes, The schoolboys watched the bowls like cannon-balls Roll from the hand of gods along the turf.
Mr. Sparr has the authorities at work and is piling up his evidence, and the arrest of the rascally schoolboys may be hourly expected.
In the account appeared the following: "There is strong evidence pointing to the fact that the outrageous deed was perpetrated by some schoolboys who held a grudge against Mr. Sparr.
It is quite a common thing forschoolboys to be persecuted or even dismissed for showing Slovak proclivities or even talking their mother--tongue "ostentatiously" on the street.
To quicken their perception, Jack gave a weird chuckle--a sound that would have startled even sturdy English schoolboys in the depth of night.
To Young Van they were oddly like a room full of schoolboys as they stood silently waiting for Flagg to obey.
The game stopped abruptly, and for a moment the players stood awkwardly about, as schoolboys would at the appearance of the teacher.
Sometimes their love chat is of sweeter tenor, for many of these schoolboys have already spoken their betrothal vows, which the Church will not let them lightly break.
We had, because of the increasing heat, conjured up a carriage, a species of invalid stage-coach, and were therefore the envy of little schoolboys in blue pinafores.
They go about in small flocks, seeking out trees of which the fruit is ripe; when they hit upon such a tree they behave as if they were schoolboys let loose in a tuck shop!
Midway, however, they are fain to submit to the rude grasp of the relentless washer; which they undergo with as ill a grace as preparatory-schoolboys do the same operation.
Borrow, as we have shown, was not of the stuff of which happy schoolboys are made.
The schoolroom is sufficiently old-world-looking for us to imagine the schoolboys of past generations sitting at the various desks.
But how may a true poet, and a right true romancer, make his melody with the din of a dozenschoolboys knocking at his ear?
Such poor rogues put me always in mind of a common phrase among schoolboys when they are composing their exercise, who run to an upper scholar, and cry, "Pray give me a little sense.
The watchful bailiffs take their silent stands; And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolboys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
