What is "schoolfellows"

Usage examples of "schoolfellows".

I had a number of schoolfellows, indeed, in Petersburg, but I did not associate with them and had even given up nodding to them in the street.

I remember how I, invariably so taciturn, suddenly fastened upon Zverkov, when one day talking at a leisure moment with his schoolfellows of his future relations with the fair sex, and growing as sportive as a puppy in the sun, he all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed, that that was his DROIT DE SEIGNEUR, and that if the peasants dared to protest he would have them all flogged and double the tax on them, the bearded rascals.

So it was to this Zverkov that my schoolfellows were going to give a dinner on his departure.

My schoolfellows met me with spiteful and merciless jibes because I was not like any of them.

His comparative inactivity amongst his schoolfellows, though occasioned by no dulness of intellect, might have suggested the necessity of a quiet life, if inclination and liking had been the arbiters in the choice.

She confounded all she was taught, and never could recollect whether the verb was conjugated and the noun declined, or whether it was the other way round, to use one of her favourite expressions, so that her preceptors were compelled to fall back, more exclusively than with her schoolfellows, on her moral conduct, which was outwardly respectable enough, but by the occupant of the other bed might perhaps have been reported on in terms not quite so satisfactory as those in the quarterly form signed by Miss Ponsonby.

In short, I parted from my schoolfellows as soon as I got out into the world.

Joseph Snowdon saw her once or twice before she left London, and from Grace Danver he heard that Grace and she had been schoolfellows in Clerkenwell.

He went regularly to school, and mixed with great dignity with his schoolfellows without ever answering them back.

Now I had much rather feel assured that many of my schoolfellows were in the same mind of subdued revolt.