boarding-schools

As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

Sole Music 2010

He had two children, a boy of seventeen and a girl of fifteen, both at boarding-schools; their school fees made a heavy drain upon his income.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

The floors, never waxed, were of that gray tone we see in boarding-schools.

A Start in Life 2007

Is for having separate churches as well as separate boarding-schools for the sexes.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Full as proper, I think, for the promoting of true piety in both, [much better than the synagogue-lattices,] as separate boarding-schools for their education.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

All these academies are in general called boarding-schools.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

So the girls are sent to tip-top boarding-schools, where amongst other trash they read Rokeby, and are taught to sing snatches from that high-flying ditty, the

Lavengro 2004

In the silly mind of the general public the various judges of Quarter Sessions, like girls incarcerated in boarding-schools, were supposed in their serene aloofness from life not to know what was going on in the subterranean realm of politics; but they knew well enough, and, knowing particularly well from whence came their continued position and authority, they were duly grateful.

The Financier 2004

We were all at lunch, in the room with the new French windows that open into the verandah, and the Count (who devours pastry as I have never yet seen it devoured by any human beings but girls at boarding-schools) had just amused us by asking gravely for his fourth tart — when the servant entered to announce the visitor.

The Woman in White 2003

So I resolved to do all I could for her — teach her whatever I knew, if she would allow me — and gradually, if possible, effect some civilising changes in her language, and, as they term it in boarding-schools, her demeanour.

Uncle Silas 2003