schoolboys

According to the New Zealand Herald the latest fad among Auckland schoolboys is wearing household slippers to school.

New Zealand Kids Have a Great Shoe Fad | Impact Lab 2007

At Harrow the inch-thick oak planks of the Elizabethan benches have been completely worn through in places by the perpetual fidgeting of hundreds of generations of schoolboys, which is as remarkable in its way as the knee grooves at

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

His sons, the Archbishop and his brother, attended the grammar school, rather celebrated in the country; they ran about and played like other lads, and were known as schoolboys to the peasantry.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

The reason the admins took this line about "schoolboys" is to cover their butts over their provable collusion with this man Crushed by Ingsoc.

[day dawns] armistice is a nice word, don't you think 2006

But the Editor of a Catholic Boys’ Paper rose to the situation; he collected petrol, roused the neighbourhood, called the schoolboys about him, probably their parents, wired for a film photographer that all might be displayed in Dublin, and having ‘bought up all unsold copies ଎ burned them in the public thoroughfare’.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Nevertheless, there was much to admire in the older men, who possessed a self-reliance, a knowledge of nature, and a certain rough grace which made them interesting companions, and rendered them effective teachers of camping and trailing, and while they were secretly a little contemptuous of the "schoolboys"; they were all quite ready to ask for expert aid when knotty problems arose.

The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Hamlin Garland 1900

He turned to me with a singular furtive smile, such as schoolboys use when in fault; and says he, in a private whisper and without the least preface: “Where have you buried him?

Summary of Events During the Master’s Second Absence 1889

(Fig. 56) such as schoolboys use, a stick tied to the end of a string; this he constantly whirled, producing a sound like that of a rain storm.

The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 Washington Matthews 1874