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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

  • (K-3), BrainPOP, and BrainPOP Español for online learning during school-hours (7am – 5: 30pm local time).

    2009 November | BrainPOP Educators 2009

  • 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.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • We used to have pleasant school-hours in those days. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • 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

  • Thus I am a good deal by myself, out of school-hours; but that does not signify.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • The school-hours were from nine to twelve (the luncheon hour), when the boarders and half-boarders — perhaps two-and-thirty girls -

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • 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.

    Louis' School Days A Story for Boys

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