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  • So I didn't quite enter into his joyous spirit of reunion, but was civil enough, and after he had got over his sham-ecstasies at meeting his dear old school-fellow again, I said:

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • I wanted to tell you ... and shake your hand, old school-fellow, and hear from you that my ... my sin is forgiven me.

    Fiancée 2010

  • At Newcastle the Captain had the good luck to find a small brig, commanded by an old acquaintance and school-fellow, which was just about to sail for the Isle of Wight.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • Were there not a hundred similar instances on record, the rate of my poor friend and school-fellow, Dick

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • The master of the brig, in honour to his passengers, and affection to his old school-fellow, had formed an awning upon deck, and proposed to have the pleasure of giving them a little treat before they left his vessel.

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • “They may well be,” said his son, “when some of them are giants themselves, like my tall school-fellow opposite.”

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • There by chance he met one of his most intimate friends, a school-fellow and studio-mate, with whom he had lived on better terms than with a brother.

    The Purse 2007

  • There by chance he met one of his most intimate friends, a school-fellow and studio-mate, with whom he had lived on better terms than with a brother.

    The Purse 2007

  • It was little Newcome, my school-fellow, whom I had not seen for six years, grown a fine tall young stripling now, with the same bright blue eyes which I remembered when he was quite a little boy.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • I have a school-fellow there — but I cannot get to

    The Woodlanders 2006

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