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Both characteristics were so well developed that the hours they spent in the schoolroom were chiefly devoted to exploits of a most unscholastic nature.

From Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by George, Vesper L.

What unscholastic reminiscences might we not hear, could book-lined shelves in the shadowy nooks, but speak!

From Missy by Gatlin, Dana

I know 'tis yours, when unscholastic wights Unloose their fancies in presumptuous flights, Awaked to vengeance, on such flights to frown, Clip the wing'd horse, and roll his rider down.

From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas

Sent to Leipzig in his seventeenth year, he finds himself an awkward, ungainly lad, and sets diligently to perfecting himself in the somewhat unscholastic accomplishments of riding, dancing, and fencing.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

Then he remembered that whatever pleasures had mitigated the exasperation of school last term were decidedly unscholastic, and he blushed.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton