school-days

The researchers suggested that eating habits learned and practiced at home swamp the effects of school snacks and, what's more, that regimented school-days limit students' opportunities to go back for seconds and thirds.

Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea Christopher Shea 2012

I was told in my school-days that ice melts at about +32º.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

We all remember from our school-days what a fine string of rules had to be committed to and kept in memory, before we were able to scan a Latin or Greek verse without breaking its neck by tripping over false quantities.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Unformed suspicions to a similar effect had sometimes passed through my mind in my earlier school-days, and had always caused me great distress; for they were worldly in their nature, and wide, very wide, of the spirit that had drawn me from Sylvia.

George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

Unformed suspicions to a similar effect had sometimes passed through my mind in my earlier school-days, and had always caused me great distress; for they were worldly in their nature, and wide, very wide, of the spirit that had drawn me from Sylvia.

George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

I have always had a regard for dunces; — those of my own school-days were amongst the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turned out by no means the dullest in life; whereas many a youth who could turn off Latin hexameters by the yard, and construe Greek quite glibly, is no better than a feeble prig now, with not a pennyworth more brains than were in his head before his beard grew.

Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

Nothing more was heard of Attwood for some years; a tailor one day came down to C — —, who had made clothes for Jack in his school-days, and furnished him with regimentals: he produced a long bill for one hundred and twenty pounds and upwards, and asked where news might be had of his customer.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

I reviewed his school-days and his early manhood, and his first encounter with love, very much as one might review the proceedings of an ant in the sand.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

From our school-days we have been taught to admire it.

The History of Pendennis 2006

He plunged at once into conversation, talking the Dutch of Holland, which Peter, who had forgotten his school-days, found a bit hard to follow.

Greenmantle 2005