"Boarding school" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it fall? It was not able to keep itself from falling. The lady fainted and fell from her seat. If there is no action in sitting, why did she not remain as she was? A company of ladies and gentlemen from the boarding school and college, entered the parlor of a teacher of neuter verbs; and he asked them to sit down, or be seated. They were neutral. He called them impolite. But they replied, that sit "expresses neither action nor passion," ...
— Lectures on Language - As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. • William S. Balch
... education be not practicable, great care must be taken in making choice of a school. Boarding school education requires great reformation. Accomplishments, superficial acquirements, and brain-work, are the order of the day; health is very little studied. You ought, in the education of your daughters, to remember that they, in a few ...
— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse
... said she would soon be able to walk quite nicely again, perhaps Gertrude did not think about her so much as she had done at first. She was going to be married, you see, and to live in a foreign country, and even if she sent Lucy to boarding school, she did not know who was to look after her during the holidays. But to tell you the truth, Gertrude had so many other things to think of that she forgot all about Lucy's future, and although she would be going away very soon now, ...
— The Bountiful Lady - or, How Mary was changed from a very Miserable Little Girl - to a very Happy One • Thomas Cobb
... when Master Bob must go off to school—a day school, or a boarding school, or first one and then ...
— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)
... said. "I still don't get all the idea, but I don't much care if I don't. I haven't had so much excitement since I ran away from boarding school." ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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