He squints slightly, has a squared jaw, and speaks in British-accented English, the product of a boarding school education.
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Like Donal, he requested to go to boarding school to escape his homelife; also like Donal, he was initially miserable there.
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Tickets will be free, but anyone who has ever denied anthropogenic climate change will be automatically denied a boarding pass.
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First: Was he contagious when boarding the plane and are his plane-mates therefore at risk?
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He lived in a boarding house in Cambridge, Mass., while Ina stayed on Long Island with their son Chase, who was in school.
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I have a hunch that after eating a while in boarding houses a good home-cooked meal must be a welcome change.
The Radio Boys at the Sending Station|Allen Chapman
Magnus, storming furiously forward at that moment, was wounded in the wrist as he was boarding a hostile ship.
Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15)|Charles Morris
I have no desire for these boarding schools in the abstract.
The Boy's Voice|J. Spencer Curwen
I found on entering the smoking room of the boarding house, that "Uncle Dick Moss," a rank spiritualist, had the floor.
Out of the Fog|C. K. Ober
There were upwards of a hundred boarding at the same house with ourselves.
A Visit To The United States In 1841|Joseph Sturge
British Dictionary definitions for boarding
boarding
/ (ˈbɔːdɪŋ) /
noun
a structure of boards, such as a floor or fence
timber boards collectively
the act of embarking on an aircraft, train, ship, etc
(as modifier)a boarding pass
a process used in tanning to accentuate the natural grain of hides, in which the surface of a softened leather is lightly creased by folding grain to grain and the fold is worked to and fro across the leather