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n. A day during which the public schools are open, usually synonymous with weekday during the school year
Usage examples of "schoolday".
And the reason lay in the persecution which overclouded his schooldays.
He found himself negligent of her gentle little friend and guest, Jessie Dean, to whom he had vowed to be a second father, and such a friend as she had been to his Pappoose when, a homesick, sad-eyed child, she entered upon her schooldays.
He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released from the paint-by-numbers page of their schooldays, from their preformatted roles as truant or victim, freed to an unspoiled summer, that inviting medium for doodling in self-transformation.
The droll lightheartedness which won Comus Bassington such measure of popularity as he enjoyed among his fellows did not materially help to endear him to the succession of masters with whom he came in contact during the course of his schooldays.
I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my callup, dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and 71 72ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL water running in and out of bath tubs.
I hadn't heart to add that their son's bloody rendezvous in Themiscyra -- as represented on an Attic black-figured amphiphoreus Polyeidus had once turned into when he was trying for Amphitryon by way of amphigouri back in our schooldays -- was already a matter of the history of the future.
He does not wish his schooldays back, but he longs for the certainties which bounded his life and the hopes which kept up his spirits.
They would drive to the farm each schoolday, work with the four youngsters, then drive back to their lodgings in Bridgend or Bowmore or one of the other south-shore villages when classes were over.
If I saw a few of the companions of my schooldays again, if on my walks through this beautiful, beloved region I met again the lares and penates of my youth, and if good fortune would have it that we might come close to each other again and a dialogue should spring up between us as in the old days, less between you and me than between my problem with Castalia and myself -- then this vacation would not be wasted.