What is "schoolchild"

Usage examples of "schoolchild".

As a result, hundreds of citizens lined up every day to see Barnett, and he took special joy in parading schoolchildren into his office to shake his hand, sometimes 150 at a time.

A body of people in garb familiar to every schoolchild who ever stapled paper feathers onto an oaktag turkey knelt on the deck while the sailors scrambled back and forth, around and through and on top of them.

The stallkeeper must have had in mind schoolchildren with vacation bug-collecting assignments to complete, but his display was devoid of popular items like butterflies and giant beetles.

He stood in line alongside restless schoolchildren on field trips, vaguely interested retirees, and a few military buffs.

It was a typical British summer fete, beginning with a procession through the streets of Woolton led by the twenty-five-piece-band of the Cheshire Yeomanry, followed by floats, Morris dancers, Scouts, Girl Guides, Brownies, Cubs and schoolchildren in fancy dress.

Jenny and all the other schoolchildren school began again, Harras resumed his dog's life, a varied routine which was not even interrupted by the arrival, exactly three weeks later, of the news that the stud dog Harras had once again earned twenty-five gulden for my father.

Inside, crowds of schoolchildren and harassed-looking adults formed a ragged queue that trailed through a brightly lit corridor, its walls covered with huge glossy color photos and computer-enhanced images of hissing cockroaches, hellgrammites, morpho butterflies, deathwatch beetles, polyphemous moths.

Caity nodded, looking like a conscientious schoolchild, and bore Hosea off.

And when on the treeless Neuer Markt a gust of wind had ruffled his mane, he reached for the little brush in the ample pocket of his jacket and, while publicly dressing his astonishing hair, quickly acquired an audience: housewives, schoolchildren, ourselves.

The schoolchildren came to Lake in the Clouds by special invitation on the night before the recital to practice their singing, and to make popcorn balls, sampling extensively as they went.

Kitty and her new baby to look in on, and her schoolchildren seemed to seek her out at every opportunity as if they could not quite believe that she would still be in evidence if the schoolhouse was not.

Tom sat and watched as one by one the girls came out, young and unformed many of them, almost schoolchildren in bathing suits.

Thousands of people streamed past him in the aisle, men in baseball caps, women wearing trenchcoats, uniformed schoolchildren, each bumping into his ribs or his knees with their luggage.

And his discomfort was worsened by the thought that it was he, he who had lunched at Balmoral and whose name had been mentioned in the same breath as the Germanic greats, should be dragged down to the level of an anxious, wriggling schoolchild.

The research, of course, is not without some personal risk to Piers's person, since the Australian magpie is a very aggressive bird known to dive-bomb and attack passing schoolchildren, nature enthusiasts, and pluperfect assholes.