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schoolboy days

NOUN
boyhood
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Though they’d been friends since schoolboy days in Pennsylvania, they haven’t spoken since.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2013

We were passing over the yellow Tiber, but I heeded not its associations, either with history or with my early schoolboy days, their studies and their struggles.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

You remember Daniel Boone's schoolboy days, of which I have spoken.

From The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman by Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister)

In 1881 was begun the actual labor of writing “Treasure Island,” the germ of which had been lying dormant in Stevenson’s brain since his early schoolboy days.

From Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work by Various

In his schoolboy days he had always thought a pirate's life very attractive, so stepping forward, he said: "Will you call me Red-handed Jack?"

From The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie by O'Connor, Daniel Stephen




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