schoolfellow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of schoolfellow
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at school 1, fellow
Example Sentences
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Grey Stuart, my dear, where has your schoolfellow gone?”
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
Mr. Popple was secretary to the Lords Commissioners, for the affairs of trade and plantations, and a particular friend of Penn and of his schoolfellow, John Locke.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
Your cousin is going on a visit to a married schoolfellow, who is her senior by two or three years, and who, I understand, was the most exemplary pupil Miss Pruins ever had.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 by Various
"Let's get out of this crush," continued Dacres, grasping his old schoolfellow by the arm.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
I got back to Oxford just in time for the festival dinner of the Canning and Chatham Clubs, at which my old schoolfellow Alfred Lyttelton, Hugh Cecil, and other Tory notabilities, were guests.
From A New Medley of Memories by David Hunter-Blair
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