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Boarding School, she may perhaps remember Miss Molly Benson, her class-mate, who has forgotten all the little quarrels which they used to have together (in which Miss Molly was very often in the wrong), and only remembers the generous, high-spirited, sprightly,
The Virginians 2006
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Two days before, when little Theophilus Opperdyke, after a terrible struggle with himself, divided between loyalty to Hicks and a love for his Alma Mater, had betrayed his toothpick class-mate to Captain.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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Maitland informed his class-mate irreverently, as the Dauntless neared the Solarian system.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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At West Point I had a class-mate -- in the last year of our studies he was room-mate also -- F.T. Dent, whose family resided some five miles west of
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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General Longstreet bitterly regretted giving this order so hastily, but pleads in extinuation his utmost confidence in Major Goggans, his class-mate at West Point.
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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Busts down at Jerry's, and various other pastimes, to the vast indignation of his good friend and class-mate, Butch Brewster, who tried futilely to lecture him into the proper serious mood with which Seniors must sail through Commencement!
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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And all because every instinct of honor and justice forbade her betraying a class-mate, even though she entertained for her little less than contempt.
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Here, with Manning as president and Hezekiah Smith (1737-1805), his class-mate at Princeton, as financial agent and influential supporter, the institution (since 1804 known as Brown University) was for many years the only degree-conferring [v. 03 p. 0377] institution controlled by Baptists.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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He explained, that while in England, a class-mate of his, who was an excellent musician, had given him lessons; and that after a time he had become very fond of it, and had practised much during his leisure hours.
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A college class-mate, (Poor B----! the shadows of the Pyramids now fall upon his early grave!) a young man easily agitated, to be sure, and possibly timid, on his way home, late one autumn night, from the house of a relative in the country, was hurrying past a dismal old burying-yard in the midst of a gloomy wood, when he was suddenly startled by a strange noise a short distance from the road.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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