schoolboy
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Richmal Crompton’s chronicles of an English schoolboy and his misadventures began in 1922 and charmed readers for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
I will continue to wage this lonely battle as long as septuagenarian Angus Young is hopping around in schoolboy shorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A schoolboy named Waldham slipped off the cliffs after a scrum with friends and broke his arm in 1881.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"I've been working in Japan since 1982. And when I first went there, there was one person who spoke schoolboy English. So, it was very much about communicating through gesture, drawings, but also humour."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He bobbed his head like a shy schoolboy and picked up his briefcase.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
The pair, who met as schoolboys in Bushey, Hertfordshire, found themselves acting as unlikely cultural ambassadors, introducing western pop music to audiences unfamiliar with it.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Hanging by a Wire" tells the story of the nail-biting race to save schoolboys dangling from a stranded cable car in the Himalayan foothills.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
We know Augustine in a way that we do no other ancient individual except perhaps Cicero, the Roman orator of the late Republic whose writings were required texts for centuries of schoolboys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
"Sonny scored a great goal to give us that extra buffer. We had the schoolboys out there in the end."
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
On the mantelpiece were photographs of two schoolboys with round, smiling faces.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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