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Example sentences for "schoolhouse"

Lexicographically close words:
schooles; schoolfellow; schoolfellows; schoolgirl; schoolgirls; schoolhouses; schooling; schoolman; schoolmarm; schoolmaster
  1. When the schoolhouse was reached, Ken lingered behind to tie the burro in a grassy spot, and Dixie, taking their guest by the hand, led her into the little log schoolhouse.

  2. Miss Bayley turned and saw, back from the road and on a short lane, a log schoolhouse half hidden by great old pines.

  3. Out of the little log schoolhouse they trooped, half an hour early, that none might be later than usual reaching their homes.

  4. Let the word go forth to teach English in every schoolhouse in Cuba, and the work of amalgamation would be half done.

  5. I thought I felt somethin' slip th'ough dat hole in my pocket jes' by the big pine stump in the schoolhouse ya'd.

  6. At the schoolhouse she would be surrounded by her pupils, and a private interview would be as difficult, with more eyes to remark and more tongues to comment upon it.

  7. In this character Wain had driven her to the town for her examination; he had busied himself about putting the schoolhouse in order, and in various matters affecting the conduct of the school.

  8. For a day or two, Tryon sedulously kept away from the neighborhood of the schoolhouse at Sandy Rim.

  9. One of the children took word to the schoolhouse that the teacher was sick and there would be no school that day.

  10. Out of the schoolhouse a swarm of colored children were emerging, the suppressed energy of the school hour finding vent in vocal exercise of various sorts.

  11. One day, he timed his visit to the schoolhouse so as to walk home with Rena through the woods.

  12. Such a friendship, if possible in itself, would never be tolerated by the lady whom you are to marry, with whom you drove by my schoolhouse the other day.

  13. On the walls were inscribed such words as naughty little boys write on schoolhouse fences in this country, and more examples of this pleasing brand of literature were carved on the whittled oak benches and the rickety wooden stools.

  14. At Albion neither hall, church, nor schoolhouse could be obtained, so we held small meetings in the dining room of the hotel.

  15. An aged resident of Hatfield used to tell of going to the schoolhouse when she was a girl, and sitting on the doorstep to hear the boys recite their lessons.

  16. And with renewed courage she began to lay the foundation of a schoolhouse as big as half the parish.

  17. Tims Halvor did not go near the schoolhouse again for a week or more; it was as if he were afraid of again meeting Karin there.

  18. He and the parson were frequently seen strolling together along the road between the schoolhouse and the parsonage, back and forth, back and forth, as if they had no end of things to say to each other.

  19. But to present even a simple home scene on the schoolhouse platform, necessitated considerable planning, to say nothing of hard work.

  20. This pleasant expectancy was confirmed by the continued and increasing shuffling of feet over the bare schoolhouse floor and the hum of voices.

  21. Somebody started to clap, and all at once the schoolhouse shook with applause, even the disappointed succumbing to the contagion and clapping as enthusiastically as any one.

  22. At eight in the evening the schoolhouse was brilliantly lighted, and adorned with wreaths and festoons of foliage and flowers.

  23. We took the long way around and sat down on the schoolhouse steps, and between us we quite revived the romance of the lone red rock and the extinct people.

  24. Eric straightened himself in his saddle and his eyes flashed as they had done in the Lone Star schoolhouse when he broke his violin across his knee.

  25. The schoolhouse was crowded with the saved and sanctified, robust men and women, trembling and quailing before the power of some mysterious psychic force.

  26. I was still perplexed as to what measure of musical comprehension was left to her, she who had heard nothing but the singing of gospel hymns at Methodist services in the square frame schoolhouse on Section Thirteen for so many years.

  27. It might have occurred to an impartial observer that Asa Skinner's God was indeed a vengeful God if he could reserve vengeance for those of his creatures who were packed into the Lone Star schoolhouse that night.

  28. Every schoolhouse is an arsenal, filled with weapons and ammunition to destroy the monsters of ignorance and fear.

  29. It means that the schoolhouse is the fortress of Liberty.

  30. They know that every schoolhouse is an arsenal, a fort, where missiles are made to hurl against the ignorance and prejudice of mankind; so they are for the free school.

  31. I tell you the schoolhouse is the fortress of liberty.

  32. The schoolhouse is the finest building in the village.

  33. Tell the old man that the Republican party preserved the honor of the Nation; that it believes in education; that it looks upon the schoolhouse as a cathedral.

  34. As the wagon creaked over the high ground just above Frankfort, Claude noticed a brilliant new flag flying from the schoolhouse cupola.

  35. As soon as he got out of sight of the house, he pulled off his coat, rolled it under his arm, and scudded along the edge of the frozen fields, arriving at the frame schoolhouse panting and shivering, but very well pleased with himself.

  36. She flew into the schoolhouse to the water bench, and seizing the water bucket, flew out.

  37. He nodded toward the schoolhouse door through which Mamie had vanished.

  38. School began for Chicken Little at the little brown schoolhouse a mile distant, on the fifteenth of September.

  39. His favorite method of settling the enemy was to pick them up bodily and set them outside the schoolhouse door while he rubbed out their ticket.

  40. The clock in the schoolhouse tower was striking the half hour as the sleigh load passed the last house in the little town, and turned into the country road leading to the ranch.

  41. The schoolhouse was turned into an infirmary, many of the rooms holding nearly a hundred and twenty beds.

  42. So the peaceful days went by in the quiet schoolhouse at Tonnerre, the monotony being pleasantly relieved by visits from comrades, and letters from Paul Haber and the Ellrichs.

  43. Walter laughed, and said he would go to the schoolhouse and find its mistress.

  44. He was passing the schoolhouse at The Harbor, when a little girl playing on the rough step of stone before the door, looked up and said, "I know you.

  45. The old schoolhouse in the fishing village seemed to disappear at once, as by the touch of a magician's wand.

  46. Still, you must give Bob credit for finding your father's jewelry that the tramp hid down in the schoolhouse well.

  47. After Bob Bouncer had discovered Mr. Haven's jewelry hidden in the well, following the schoolhouse fire, the merchant had offered Bob a reward of a hundred dollars.

  48. In 1725 it was voted to build a schoolhouse twenty feet long, sixteen feet wide, and seven feet in height between the joints.

  49. It put the church beside the schoolhouse on the village green.

  50. Following a revival service held at the Leach Hollow schoolhouse in the fall of 1837, the Center people invited Rev.

  51. The schoolhouse was as much a part of their essential requirements as the barn or the shop.

  52. In 1787 a new building for townhouse and schoolhouse together was erected at the north end of the Main Street.

  53. There are to-day treasured in many of our homes, brass candlesticks that were kept bright by our grandmothers to carry to the schoolhouse for the evening singing school.

  54. The upland farmsteads, too, were awake, here and in Brefar, and the cottages around Inniscaw schoolhouse and Brefar Church.

  55. In the year 1830 Bedford Schoolhouse occupied the whole of one side of St. Paul's Square, which faced the High Street.

  56. The sleepy old bridge spanned the still more sleepy river, over which lay the quiet road leading to the little village of Willshampstead, and it came along through the old square where the schoolhouse was.

  57. It is said that he preached in the schoolhouse at West Weatogue on the evening after his arrival in Simsbury.

  58. It is still standing and in fair repair, just opposite the Cornish house, which stood by the old schoolhouse in East Weatogue.

  59. When this occurred on a Sabbath the young men would bring a boat, and to our great delight we were rowed over, and the neighbors gathered at the schoolhouse for a Sabbath service at which my father preached.

  60. The old schoolhouse is altered some; The benches are replaced By new ones very like the same Our jackknives had defaced.

  61. You blamed fool, how's he comin' to the schoolhouse less'n you tell 'im!

  62. Once or twice he had been on the verge of stealing back into the thicket for his rifle, yet the schoolhouse drama held him too firmly chained for this.

  63. A gentle, almost a childish smile of satisfaction played across his mouth, and the next moment he was walking forward, carefully and reverently, as though the little schoolhouse were on holy ground.

  64. Tusk thought a moment, and hopefully exclaimed: "I kin ketch 'im at the schoolhouse when he leaves the money!

  65. She wanted to spare her schoolhouse this.

  66. The schoolhouse is situated somewhere near the center of this district and is usually a small, boxlike affair, often located in a desolate place without trees or other attractive environment.

  67. Men of intelligence sometimes draw up their own plans for a building and then, having become enamored of them, proceed to construct a residence or a schoolhouse along those lines.

  68. It may not be amiss to assert that it would be an excellent plan to decide first upon a good system of ventilation and then to build the schoolhouse around it.

  69. In many a lone rural schoolhouse may be found ten to twenty small children; and behind the desk a teacher holding only a second or third grade elementary or county certificate.

  70. The schoolhouse should be properly located in this tract.

  71. The old-fashioned country schoolhouse was in many respects a pitiable object.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.