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Boarding-school, where the scholars were lodged; and lastly, what was called the Little Convent.
Les Miserables 2008
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The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and the
Les Miserables 2008
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Boarding-school boys still took the College Board essay exam, and often the
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Boarding-school has a tendency to round people out -- too much!
Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's Caroline E. Jacobs 1924
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St. Xavier's Academy and Boarding-school was begun.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Had the Edial Boarding-school turned out well, we had never heard of Samuel Johnson; Samuel Johnson had been a fat schoolmaster and dogmatic gerundgrinder, and never known that he was more.
Paras. 25-49 1909
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Now, this was an alternative which Arabella by no means relished Boarding-school had always seemed to her inexperienced mind as a place but little removed from a jail.
Arabella 1907
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"He could have kept her at a fashionable boarding-school from the day she was born until now for the sum he's turned over to the Board," said
Mary Cary "Frequently Martha" Kate Langley Bosher 1898
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LITTLE boys from quiet, pious households, commonly found, in those days, a chasm yawning at the feet of their inexperience when they arrived at Boarding-school.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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"Boarding-school is so horrid," she remarked, "you get all mixed up with people you don't want to know, -- people not in society at all."
What Katy Did at School Susan Coolidge 1870
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