He knew that fun might be made of her speech and her garb by her schoolmates over at the Gap, and he was trying to prepare her--to save her mortification, to make her understand.
June spoke to no one, but walked through her schoolmates homeward, when school was over, like a haughty young queen.
For her dark story had reared a hedge about her; the taboo rested upon her; and even in the crowded classrooms the schoolmates of her own sex looked askance and drew their skirts about them.
They picked up these words in childhood from ignorant schoolmates and companions whose minds were tainted with debasing thoughts of sex.
It is a good thing for boys and girls of different families to be schoolmates and occasionally to engage together in games.
I eagerly listened to the vulgar stories of servants and schoolmates and before I was twelve years old my mind was taken up with lascivious thoughts and vulgar expressions.
The five schoolmates had known each other for more than five years, and being very near an age and in the same class in school, naturally became intimates.
Natalie had informed her schoolmates that she was to go on the nine o'clock local in the morning, and so wished them all good-by that night.
I will not pause at present to give you any further particulars regarding my own early years, as the story I am about to relate is concerning one of my schoolmates who was a few years older than myself.
I was one among a number of Harry's schoolmates who had gone to spend the day at the farm of Mr. Knights, Harry's father.
These had acted upon the imagination of his schoolmates like the proverbial red rag upon a bull, and were the subject of the stream of jibes and jokes that were being heaped upon him.
Unobserved, for his schoolmates were mostly far afield, he reached Standerland, tiptoed through the corridors to his room, and once inside hid himself carefully behind the curtains that screened the door into his bedroom.
It was a standing jest with my irreverent schoolmates that "Old Ky" owed his fine, rich colour to smoking through his skin.
Doubtless I was thus relieved of much annoyance, as my newschoolmates received me without showing the curiosity which would have irritated me in my own village.
Long before noon I was obliged to call in one of my old schoolmates to assist in waiting upon my numerous customers and when I closed at night I had the satisfaction of reckoning up sixty-three dollars as my day’s receipts.
There I invested six cents in “torpedoes,” with which I intended to astonish my schoolmates in Bethel.
I became markedly outraged at schoolmates who acted irresponsibly and then decided that my ear was the one upon which they could hurl their misadventurous rot.
As it was, I attended school only three days, but in that time I reacquainted myself with my schoolmates and was readily accepted in my former circle of friends.
I felt the class to be senselessly competitive; so concerned were my schoolmates with winning that to say we were involved in a "game" was totally incomprehensible.
And finally, to come back to our subject, when you hear your schoolmates making uncharitable remarks about others, use all your influence, especially by your own example, to make them correct the habit.
They had been schoolmates or work-fellows in the same shop, perhaps they were related as brothers or cousins, or they had been near neighbours and old friends.
How memory brings back the rush of feeling with which the tidings of his death came to us, his schoolmates from whom he had so lately parted!
I knew the place was full of ghosts of other days, but a strange thrill went through me as I found the frequent stones inscribed with the names of former schoolmates or comrades who had fallen in the war.
We had been schoolmates before we became comrades, then tent-mates, finally brothers like David and Jonathan.
He did fail occasionally on a word, it is true, but so seldom that hisschoolmates anticipated no failure on his part.
There could be no hard words or quarrels among his schoolmates with his consent.
Well, it will be different with you; you are ambitious, Georgia, and in trying to pass your schoolmates you will feel a delight and pride you never experienced before.
My schoolmates soon found that though so tall, I was physically very weak, and many of them continually bullied and annoyed me.
Round the beds of Jack and Jill met and mingled the schoolmates of whom our story treats.
Medical inspection of New York City's schools was begun after an epidemic of scarlet fever was traced to a popular boy who passed around among his schoolmates long rolls of skin from his fingers.
Such attention will increase the percentage of abnormally bright schoolmates who figure in active business in later life.
Bessie knew this, but thought nothing of it until some of her schoolmates gathered round her at recess and said, "O girls, Bessie has a new dress like her father's shirt.
It was upon this occasion that in reference to his carelessness of dress, his schoolmates composed the rhyme, "Napoleon di mezza calzetta Fa l'amore a Giacominetta.
Schoolmates and friends, I want to confess to you the meanest things that ever were done at dear Oak Knowe.
She was allowed to entertain her schoolmates there as she would have done in her father's house; always, of course, within the limits set by the faculty.
Each year Lady Jane had allowed her daughter to entertain her schoolmates in some such manner but the number had, heretofore, been limited to "Peers" only.
Ever since that day of her open confession her schoolmates had regarded her with greater respect than ever before.
As Ricardo was playing with his schoolmatesone day, he saw a dead cat.
Those who were slow at waking were pulled out of bed by their more eager schoolmates or were driven out of slumberland with showers of pillows.
Several of his schoolmates heard the sound, and Pickles sprang forward and picked up the object.
He might have taken one of the boys aside and told his story to him, but Frank could not remember one of his schoolmates whom he had not threatened to "clean up" or "clout in the jaw" at one time or another.
While the first trip was being made, Hal, Frank, Byron, and Ferdinand were surrounded by their eager schoolmates and plied with numerous questions.
How our old schoolmates have changed places in the ranking of actual life!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schoolmates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
