Example Sentences

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Sisters-in-law and school-friends were different creatures; she had found that out already.

From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

After all the years that had passed since the parting in the cabin of the ship, it was thus the two school-friends met again.

From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie

Should we travel like a couple of school-friends, or should I make him understand that he was under my charge and control, and must behave himself accordingly?

From A Jolly Fellowship by Stockton, Frank Richard

I had sought the safe retreat of my room, that I might, as I had promised, write long and loving letters to some of my much-regretted school-friends.

From The Doctor's Daughter by Vera, [pseud.]

Some of her school-friends had seen her smile—a wonderful and charming phenomenon, during which her expression grew sweet and bewitchingly animated and her brown eyes radiant with mirthful light.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)