What is "schoolroom"

Usage examples of "schoolroom".

And everyone knew that before a girl was of marriageable age she had to leave the schoolroom and be launched onto society during the Season and attend plenty of balls and routs and meet many eligible gentlemen, one of whom she would fall in love with, and hopefully he would be the one who asked her brother for her hand in the usual manner.

I have been made to tend the little girls in the lower schoolroom, and to talk French to the Misses, until I grew sick of my mother tongue.

And she had outgrown any usefulness she might once have had when Sybil had won a shrill argument with Lord and Lady Barrie a few months before and been officially released from the schoolroom.

Her behavior, as predicted, wavered between overfulfilling the promise of her appearance or lapsing into a hot-cheeked awkwardness more suited to a schoolroom.

They were joined by sober clubmen, starchy hostesses, pushy matchmakers, giggling girls fresh from the schoolroom.

As for her brother, the ruler of Strelitz, he never had time for her, so she would soon be sent back to the schoolroom if she attempted to talk to him.

Lady Buxted responded in repressive accents, desiring her not to use expressions unbefitting a lady of quality, and dismissing her to the schoolroom.

They sorted through the purchases from Albany, setting aside the schoolroom supplies and gifts from provisions which needed to be divided between the two cabins.

The revelers were drunk on busthead whiskey, yelling, sometimes jumping down to pick up a dirt clod, flinging it at a schoolroom window.

I was still on the old sofa, and just a few feet away from me sat Phil, on the edge of the schoolroom table, and Nannie in a chair beside him.

With the exception of a short visit in the study, he spent the evening with us in the schoolroom, hearing all that has happened to us since he went away, and playing violin and piano duets with Nannie and me.

Max were waiting in the schoolroom, longing and yet just dreading what Nannie might have to tell us.

I entered the schoolroom I overlooked no fault and received no excuse for nonperformance of tasks, my transformation into the friend and playmate, once the lessons were over, was thorough and complete.

We were then shewn three halls, in which we found at least one hundred and fifty seminarists, ten or twelve schoolrooms, the refectory, the dormitory, the gardens for play hours, and every pain was taken to make me imagine life in such a place the happiest that could fall to the lot of a young man, and to make me suppose that I would even regret the arrival of the bishop.

My disruptive brother will help me put our poor creekside schoolroom to right.