Sentence examples for schoolboy days from inspiring English sources

Reminiscences of schoolboy days and the Jazz era around 1924.

It's a colorful patchwork of family high and low points, schoolboy days, professional triumphs and assorted epiphanies (including sex with women followed by sex with men).

To him, it felt worlds away from his schoolboy days at the tiny Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, where "we really struggled," he said.

The narrator of Meg Rosoff's "What I Was" is 100 years old, looking back on his schoolboy days in the early 1960s.

Of slavery, he notes that "color and condition interposed a subtle line" between him and his black playmates, but confesses: "In my schoolboy days, I had no aversion to slavery.

Of course, the crowd had been primed for bitterness by none other than New York's own Napoleon, the bitter and vicious Rudy Giuliani who always gives the impression of payback time for perennial bullying in his schoolboy days.

His smooth, quicksilver running style is not dissimilar to that of the family friend who coached him in his schoolboy athlete days and who continues to help him on the speed front.

It is a delight to see this kind of sequential sketching, which is not unlike the process the film director Martin Scorsese has spoken about in his schoolboy ­storyboarding days, placing one image after another until these pictures gain imaginative life and narrative momentum.

Since the time of Wordsworth and Coleridge, the beau monde has trooped to see the "horride cragges", the Fair Maid of Buttermere or the menu at Sharrow Bay, and Harry encountered them from the start, almost in his grazed knees and schoolboy shorts days.

Thornton puts his own ability to fall - he has been riding National Hunt for over 20 years - down to his schoolboy rugby days playing fly-half, when he learned how to drop his shoulder to ride a big tackle from the opposing open-side flanker or centre.

It was all pretty exceptional for a schoolboy in those days".