"Schoolroom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... room, and try to keep strictly to one particular crack in the floor as I hummed a fragment of some tune or repeated some vague formula—in short, at one of those moments when the mind leaves off thinking and the imagination gains the upper hand and yearns for new impressions—I left the schoolroom, and turned, with no definite purpose in view, towards the head of ...
— Boyhood • Leo Tolstoy
... she chose, she could do them in a hundredth part of the time taken by her companions; she hated getting up in the wintry dark, and her cold ablutions with some dozen others in the comfortless lavatory; she hated the meals in the long schoolroom, where, because twice meat was forbidden and twice pudding allowed, she invariably hungered fiercely for more mutton and scorned her second course, making a sort of dramatic story to herself out of Miss Frederick's tyranny and her own thwarted ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... day when old gray, bristling Leggett, our Principal, opened the schoolroom door upon Lucy Tait, are as poignant, as sweetly terrible, now as in that far time when the light of her wondrous ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... teaching, 51; fine clothes, Margaret's headache, illness, death, A.'s discouragement, longs to go to California, 52; sec. Daughters of Temp., opposed by women, describes temp. supper, first public address, 53; returns home, revels in peaches, takes charge of farm, supply teacher, leaves schoolroom forever, 55; reasons for adopting public life, 57; friendship of May and Channing, 58; calls on F. Douglass, 59; not quite in favor of wom. suff., 61; manages temp. festival, offers toasts, 62; meets S. S. and A. K. Foster, 63; ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... me the red brick buildings of my first school and the chapel that adjoined it. The fields a little way off were full of boys in white flannels playing cricket. On the asphalt playing ground, just by the schoolroom windows, stood Agamemnon, Achilles, and Odysseus, with their Argives armed behind them; but Hector stepped down out of a ground-floor window, and in the schoolroom were all Priam's sons and the Achaeans and fair Helen; and a little farther away the Ten Thousand ...
— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany
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