Among his schoolfellows he contracted a particular intimacy with Mr. George Chalmers, afterwards Secretary of the Board of Trade; so well known by many elaborate and valuable commercial, historical, and biographical publications.
His schoolfellowsat "Henmenen" saw a dove teaching him, and singing hymns with him.
Some of his schoolfellows became bishops or teachers of Churches.
His humility made him conceal his progress and deep penetration, insomuch that his schoolfellows thought he learned nothing, and on account of his silence, called him The dumb Ox, and the Great Sicilian Ox.
Our saint was educated under the holy discipline of St. Dubritius, and soon after the year 500, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with his schoolfellows St. David and St. Paternus.
Meanwhile, Jim Smith and his schoolfellows were amusing themselves in the playground.
Gerda was still perched on the window-sill of one of the lower rooms, and she turned to her schoolfellows with a strange light in her eyes and a look of unwonted excitement on her face.
She counted for so little with her schoolfellows that it never struck them to introduce her to their favourite; in fact they had been totally occupied among themselves in fighting for possession of him.
A Liberal statesman, still living, when he went to Harrow for the first time, sailed up the Hill in the family coach, and tradition does not report that his schoolfellows kicked him with any special virulence.
That’s what we call it when two schoolfellows refuse to have anything more to do with one another.
He had one characteristic which made all his schoolfellows from the bottom class to the top want to mock at him, not from malice but because it amused them.
He kept an attentive and anxious watch on the other six, obviously his schoolfellows with whom he had just come out of school, but with whom he had evidently had a feud.
There Kolya began by carefully investigating every detail connected with the railways, knowing that he could impress his schoolfellows when he got home with his newly acquired knowledge.
We do not find that any of these schoolfellows afterwards became pantomime actors; but recollecting the humour and vivacity of the boy, the wonder to us is, that they were not all clowns when they grew up.
He fell in here with many schoolfellows who afterwards became connected one way or another with dramatic pursuits, among whom was Mr. Henry Harris, of Covent Garden Theatre.
Some of their schoolfellows consented to be styled Barbarians, who were to invade their territories and attack their hillocks, which they denominated fortresses.
Sometimes I was inclined to envy the better lot of my schoolfellows and companions, and was unhappy in consequence, but this early hardening process was the very best training I could have had for my later career.
Are you sure that many others of your schoolfellows were not looking upon you and the others with much the same eyes with which you were looking upon them?
He was safest and happiest alone at Ushaw, and little would his schoolfellowsunderstand the distresses of his mind there.
He early evinced a love for books, and many an hour, when his schoolfellows were far afield, would he spend in the well-stocked juvenile library.
With her schoolfellows she had never formed even the common school intimacies, and to Mrs. Sherwood and her functionaries, she owed no obligation except that of money, which was now discharged.
And arm in arm the old schoolfellows walked, with their backs on the dark past and their faces turned hopefully to the future.
Despite the fact that he was thus noted among his schoolfellows and indulged at home, he does not appear to have been in sympathy with his surroundings.
There are many of his old schoolfellows still living in the place, and all seem to recollect him as "a mischievous urchin.
You may look on them, and realize to yourself precisely how Chatterton and his schoolfellows looked when he was busy there devouring books of history, poetry, and antiquities, and planning the Burgum pedigree, and the like.
Mrs. Bretton and I sat alone in the drawing-room waiting her coming; John Graham Bretton being absent on a visit to one of hisschoolfellows who lived in the country.
She learned the names of all his schoolfellows in a trice: she got by heart their characters as given from his lips: a single description of an individual seemed to suffice.
He was inferior to many of his schoolfellows in the ordinary business of a school, and I do not remember any one instance in which he distinguished himself by Latin or English composition, in prose or verse.
It requires a great deal of kicking and hustling on the part of the victim's schoolfellowsto arrest this process, and the cure is generally only effected outwardly.
Poor Annie had not only to think of this and to solve the riddle set her, but she had to appear before the eyes of her schoolfellows as utterly calm and cool.
And yet," said the rector, "the aunt of one of yourschoolfellows may be the last person I should think it desirable to send you to.
Meanwhile Mabel, surrounded by glory--her schoolfellows and the different visitors who had come to the school for the occasion crowding round her and congratulating her--had no longer any feeling of remorse.
She said at once, when I broached the subject of your joining us, that you might come with pleasure, and she would be only too delighted if another of our schoolfellows came as well.
All right,' said Horace, thinking he should be under no temptation to part with it, since his schoolfellows would not speak to him.
So the brothers agreed to differ; but it was a very happy evening to Horace, and he thought he had overcome all his difficulties, and could be very happy, in spite of the ban that his schoolfellows had placed upon him.
The joke of a boy cursing his own father for the amusement of his schoolfellows is one of the intolerable kind.
The son of a gentleman high in the civil service of the East India Company, he was sent to England to be educated, and was some years at Charterhouse School, where one of his schoolfellows was Alfred Tennyson.
One of his schoolfellows was the famous Horace Walpole.
They would have refused to touch the cake had one of their schoolfellows offered it, but they obeyed Mrs. Miles just as though she were their real mother.
Amongst his schoolfellows at Woodnesborough was the Lord Hartington of that generation, Lord Clare, Lord William Fitzgerald, and a future Duke of Leinster.
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