schoolboy days
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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
What lessons that I used to learn In schoolboy days to me return!
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Butterworth, Hezekiah
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
My father's precept of perseverance carried me through my schoolboy days gloriously, even as it had borne him through the expense of paying out of his scanty earnings for the education of nine children.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
I find among the little scraps which survive from his schoolboy days, the following note.
From Hugh Memoirs of a Brother by Benson, Arthur Christopher