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  • Thumbnail for Louis Bouilhet
    and dramatist. Bouilhet was born in Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, Melaenis, conte...
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  • רבי יונתן, romanized: Rabi Yonatan) was a tanna of the 2nd century and schoolfellow of R. Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely quoted. Jonathan is generally...
    5 KB (728 words) - 06:20, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alain-René Lesage
    and Lesage had little practice. About this time he encountered an old schoolfellow, the dramatist Antoine Danchet, who is said to have advised him to take...
    14 KB (1,786 words) - 05:59, 8 October 2024
  • despite the ordeals he endures at his friend's hand, and their old schoolfellow George Tupper, a man of some wealth and distinction in the Foreign Office...
    12 KB (1,422 words) - 13:18, 26 November 2023
  • Nick's uncle, unreliable and usually untraceable. Peter Templer Raffish schoolfellow of Nick's based on John Spencer, friend of the author's. Jean Templer...
    18 KB (1,392 words) - 21:05, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jurij Vega
    mathematics. At that time there were about 500 students there. He was a schoolfellow of Anton Tomaž Linhart, a Slovenian writer and historian. Vega finished...
    13 KB (1,418 words) - 12:23, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for J. B. Lightfoot
    at Bournemouth and was succeeded in the episcopate by Westcott, his schoolfellow and lifelong friend. He served as President of the first day of the 1880...
    16 KB (1,377 words) - 21:57, 10 November 2024
  •  4. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. "A Boy Shot By His Schoolfellow-A Curlous Affair". The New York Times. June 9, 1867. "Sad Accident"....
    305 KB (10,804 words) - 23:10, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vincent Voiture
    was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied...
    4 KB (455 words) - 02:22, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Clerk Maxwell
    The extended biography The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, by his former schoolfellow and lifelong friend Professor Lewis Campbell, was published in 1882....
    86 KB (8,975 words) - 03:02, 16 November 2024
  • during the late 1940s and early 1950s Famous Five (Greyfriars School), schoolfellows of Billy Bunter Famous Five, a group of United States Senators honored...
    1 KB (184 words) - 23:47, 16 January 2024
  • and inept attempts to conceal his antics from his schoolmasters and schoolfellows, combine to make the character highly entertaining, though hardly sympathetic...
    36 KB (4,612 words) - 04:08, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hoist with his own petard
    England, Hamlet tells his mother: There's letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fanged, They bear the mandate; they...
    32 KB (3,767 words) - 14:19, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edessa
    illustrious disciples of the School of Edessa, Bardaisan (154–222), a schoolfellow of Abgar IX, deserves special mention for his role in creating Christian...
    41 KB (4,836 words) - 23:34, 21 October 2024
  • pupils stories about the fictional Jennings (based, however, on an old schoolfellow Diarmaid Jennings), a prep schoolboy boarding at Linbury Court Preparatory...
    11 KB (1,355 words) - 13:56, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
    and distinguished himself by his eloquence in debate, eclipsing his schoolfellow, Robert Walpole, and gaining an extraordinary ascendancy over the House...
    42 KB (4,435 words) - 23:54, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whipping boy
    adopted, it does not seem likely that any one individual among the King's schoolfellows should have been uniformly selected, whether he were in fault or not...
    31 KB (3,480 words) - 06:14, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Door in the Wall (short story)
    narrator begins by telling us that this story was told to him by an old schoolfellow of his, Lionel Wallace. After a period of doubt he has come to believe...
    17 KB (2,071 words) - 15:16, 8 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fernando Pessoa
    towards inertia and withdrawal. The young Pessoa was described by a schoolfellow as follows: I cannot tell you exactly how long I knew him, but the period...
    99 KB (10,864 words) - 18:22, 28 October 2024
  • placed in the custody of Count Pencherjevsky; he also meets his old schoolfellow Scud East and Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev, a vicious Russian army...
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