Schoolfellow

Examples

• Hold out your other hand, sir, roars Cuff to his little schoolfellow, whose face was distorted with pain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I made my way to Mr. Waterbrook, and said, that I believed I had the pleasure of seeing an old schoolfellow there. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She might have met somebody on a visit who would have been a far better match; I mean at her schoolfellow Miss Willoughby's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Your favourite schoolfellow, Louis Manoir, has suffered several misfortunes since the departure of Clerval from Geneva. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was a schoolfellow and friend of her brother's, and usually spent a part of the holidays at the mansion of the duke her father. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• So the two old schoolfellows felt it to be, as, their dinner done, they turned towards the fire to smoke. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Jacob's fortitude deserted him at the double disappearance of his schoolfellows and his prospect of dinner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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