"Boarding school" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... if you're going to study," went on Mrs. Blair. She had an idea that Yale was a sort of higher-grade boarding school, ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes
... countries with distinguished success, and returned home profoundly instructed, as he supposed, in the ways of woman, and a perfect master of the art of pleasing, he had the mortification of being jilted by a little boarding school girl, who was scarcely versed in ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving
... most brutal assault that fell to my lot. In summing up I said, "The attendants claimed next day that I had called them certain names. Maybe I did—though I don't believe I did at all. What of it? This is no young ladies' boarding school. Should a man be nearly killed because he swears at attendants who swear like pirates? I have seen at least fifteen men, many of them mental and physical wrecks, assaulted just as brutally as I ...
— A Mind That Found Itself - An Autobiography • Clifford Whittingham Beers
... see how you made the mistake," she smiled. "The letter on top of the packet was addressed to a very dear friend whose first name happens to be the same as mine. She and I were great chums in boarding school. The letter had been sent to her by a girl we both knew and who had been traveling abroad, and as Ruth knew I would be interested in it, she sent it on for ...
— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes
... been born here, too; had known no other home except when at boarding school or on shopping trips ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
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