Sentence examples for schoolfellow from inspiring English sources

"What a sad time it is to see no boats upon the River; and grass grows all up and down White Hall court, and nobody but poor wretches in the streets!" Those who died included Pepys's physician, his schoolfellow, his aunt, and the entire family of "poor Will, that use to sell us ale at Westminster Hall-door".

He studied under the distinguished philosopher and mathematician St. George Ashe, who also tutored his elder schoolfellow and ultimate lifelong friend Jonathan Swift.

A schoolfellow described him at this time as "a thick-set, strong-looking boy, with a high colour and black curly hair, good-natured and kind, but with a fearful temper".

In the early 1740s Johnson continued his strenuous work for The Gentleman's Magazine; collaborated with William Oldys, antiquary and editor, on a catalog of the great Harleian Library; helped Dr. Robert James, his Lichfield schoolfellow, with A Medicinal Dictionary; and issued proposals for an edition of Shakespeare.

On a holiday visit to schoolfellow Marcus Maudsley, the impressionable Leo is drawn into the sexual intrigue of Marcus's older sister, Marian, and her lover, local tenant farmer Ted Burgess.

His sense of fun knows few bounds (Mr Paddick calls him a "clown"), which critics say equips him ill to run a city with dire social problems.Some Tories fear privately that a heavy defeat would reflect badly on Mr Cameron, who backed his schoolfellow's candidacy; others think a shambolic performance as mayor might be even more damaging.

"Among his schoolfellows he was invariably a 'peacemaker,' he adjusted their misunderstandings, mediated in cases of extreme difficulty, with remonstrances and soothing kindness, and in more than one instance he is said to have thrown himself between infuriated urchins and restored harmony at the risk of personal injury to himself.

Born of a Dalit Mahar family of western India, he was as a boy humiliated by his high-caste schoolfellows.

Of the young Mary Ann Evans the classmate added, "Her schoolfellows loved her as much as they could venture to love one whom they felt to be so immeasurably superior to themselves".

In the early 1940s, the pair were schoolfellows at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx where, together with the late Richard Avedon, they edited the school magazine.

It's a book which subtly, almost mischievously, rejects subtlety: "the facts of life were a mystery to me, though several of my schoolfellows claimed to have penetrated it".