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(K-3), BrainPOP, and BrainPOP Español for online learning during school-hours (7am – 5: 30pm local time).
BrainPOP Helps Prepare for Swine Flu | BrainPOP Educators 2009
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(K-3), BrainPOP, and BrainPOP Español for online learning during school-hours (7am – 5: 30pm local time).
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He never read to improve himself out of school-hours, but, on the contrary, devoured all the novels, plays, and poetry, on which he could lay his hands.
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Well, one fatal Monday morning — the blackest of all black-Mondays that ever I knew — as we were all of us playing between school-hours, I saw a posse of boys round a stranger, who seemed to be looking out for one of us.
The Fatal Boots 2006
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Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll — which was, by the way, the confiscated property of Miss Swindle, discovered surreptitiously nursing it in school-hours.
Vanity Fair 2006
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We used to have pleasant school-hours in those days. '
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He was a youth of even temperament, who played in playtime, worked in school-hours, was attentive in class, slept well in the dormitory, and ate well in the refectory.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Thus I am a good deal by myself, out of school-hours; but that does not signify.
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The school-hours were from nine to twelve (the luncheon hour), when the boarders and half-boarders — perhaps two-and-thirty girls -
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He had been desired to remain in this room out of school-hours, and was forbidden to speak to any of his school-fellows without leave.
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