What is "schoolhouse"

Usage examples of "schoolhouse".

You see, although this place belongs to Akron, there are many children who cannot journey back and forth to school, so we have a little schoolhouse near.

CHAPTER IV DREAMS AND WAKINGS The incomparable Lucy Tait was still but a star to be adored in her distant heaven when I went away from Little Arcady to learn some things not taught in the faded brick schoolhouse.

As a young man, Barnett built up his savings in an old coffee can on a cupboard shelf by picking cotton stalks as a field hand, working as a schoolhouse janitor, operating an outdoor barbershop, and organizing a fourteen-piece brass band that played county fairs across the state, with Barnett playing the French horn.

They crowded the little schoolhouse to the doors to watch their offspring clodhopping about the floor.

James, from his sickbed, anxious to move to his new home, gave orders that a log cabin should be built for his family at the edge of the site, and a small schoolhouse for the children.

Most of the others looked like guilty children caught sneaking puffs of cigarettes or sips of gin behind the schoolhouse.

Smoke began to curl from the eaves of the schoolhouse, and out of it stepped the huge Uran, bearing lightly in his arms the form of an unconscious woman.

At Red Willow they turned west and drove on, past the country schoolhouse at Lone Star and across the high open wheatland, and after a while they topped a rise and could see down into the South Platte River valley, wide and tree-lined, the cliffs far away on the other side, with the town laid out below.

He made the sixty-mile journey from Braintree to Worcester by horseback in a single day and, though untried and untrained as a teacher, immediately assumed his new role in a one-room schoolhouse at the center of town.

These Chokoloskee pioneers were good and honest settlers who had sent away for a teacher for their schoolhouse and held prayer meetings whenever they could catch the circuit preacher.

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.

Bronze tablets bearing this oration for their inscription have been put on the walls of schoolhouses and public buildings all the way across the continent--plates in renewal of possession, that are another fruitage of the valley where the French planted their plates of possession and repossession a century before.

All were in freestanding buildings--old schoolhouses, abandoned bars, service stations, general stores, even a retired church or two.

Gwen did, watching with mild affection as he somersaulted off his hands and ran to join a half-dozen other youngsters playing outside a small concrete-block schoolhouse.

It was 200 miles from our village of tepees to the big, unpainted schoolhouse and dormitories and a white church with a steeple that pointed to the residence of the God we were to learn about.