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I am told that he is an Irish board-school teacher who, in early life, took an oath neither to drink nor smoke, but to contribute the amount so saved weekly to the Irish Cause.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I am told that he is an Irish board-school teacher who, in early life, took an oath neither to drink nor smoke, but to contribute the amount so saved weekly to the Irish Cause.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I am told that he is an Irish board-school teacher who, in early life, took an oath neither to drink nor smoke, but to contribute the amount so saved weekly to the Irish Cause.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I am told that he is an Irish board-school teacher who, in early life, took an oath neither to drink nor smoke, but to contribute the amount so saved weekly to the Irish Cause.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

The child waited by the pass door, hands by her sides like a board-school girl.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

The child waited by the pass door, hands by her sides like a board-school girl.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

I am told that he is an Irish board-school teacher who, in early life, took an oath neither to drink nor smoke, but to contribute the amount so saved weekly to the Irish Cause.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

I am told that he is an Irish board-school teacher who, in early life, took an oath neither to drink nor smoke, but to contribute the amount so saved weekly to the Irish Cause.

Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

"Excuse me one moment," said Sir John, "but do they really use board-school children as tests to see whether toadstools are poisonous or not?"

The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

You find writers like Wells and Bennett who have grown immensely rich and have yet preserved intact their lower-middle-class Nonconformist prejudices; you find millionaires who cannot pronounce their aitches; you find petty shopkeepers whose income is far lower than that of the bricklayer and who, nevertheless, consider themselves (and are considered) the bricklayer’s social superiors; you find board-school boys ruling Indian provinces and public-school men touting vacuum cleaners.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937