schoolfellows

I was indifferent, therefore, to my schoolfellows in general; but I united myself in the bonds of the closest friendship to one among them.

Chapter 2 2010

Clerval is almost a family member in the Frankensten household: when Victor complains that "My brothers were considerably younger than myself," he notes, "but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency" (I: 1: 11), and Victor includes Clerval in his account of his "domestic circle" because "he was constantly with us" (I: 1: 13).

Henry Clerval 2010

Self portrait by Robert Fulton, nicknamed "Quicksilver Bob" by his schoolfellows.

Carolyn Vega: Quicksilver Bob Invents the "Highest Blessing of the Water" Carolyn Vega 2011

Self portrait by Robert Fulton, nicknamed "Quicksilver Bob" by his schoolfellows.

Carolyn Vega: Quicksilver Bob Invents the "Highest Blessing of the Water" Carolyn Vega 2011

My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency.

Chapter 1 2010

Then the transatlantic narrator says that an unexpected young gentleman was announced, whose card had on it the name of one of the artist's old schoolfellows.

From the archive, 18 January 1883: The ghost story which 'inspired' Charles Dickens 2012

Not as clearly as he saw his schoolfellows, but enough to describe him if someone asked.

Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

His day was as a month and his month was as a year; 447 and, when seven years had passed over him, his grandfather sent him to school, enjoining the master to teach him Koran-reading, and to educate him well. he remained at the school four years, till he began to bully his schoolfellows and abuse them and bash them and thrash them and say,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Born in Budapest in 1905, he later recalled that as a boy, he was "lonely, precocious and neurotic, admired for my brains and detested for my character by teacher and schoolfellows alike."

The Conscience of Communism 2008

He and I were schoolfellows, though he was somewhat the younger; and many a good thrashing have I given him, and one cannot help having a tenderness for a man after that.

Westward Ho! 2007