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I have been to two boarding-schools, & gained a great many friends in diffirent ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, thank goodness, we're not competing against boarding-schools.

From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Brazil, Angela

My parents lived comfortably; they sent me to boarding-schools at North Cornwall, Conn., Ballston Spa, N. Y., and the Military School at Danbury, Conn., and finally to one of the New York colleges.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous

In addition to these primary and boarding-schools, the American Mission, in 1830, established schools for teaching English, and for elementary instruction of a more advanced description.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

One of the chief sanitary evils in our boarding-schools, convents, and similar institutions, is the stupid sameness in the food which may be otherwise unobjectionable.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin