The schools taught by Bradley headstone and Miss Peecher were newly built, and there were so many like them all over the country, that one might have thought the whole were but one restless edifice with the locomotive gift of Aladdin's palace.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The Peecher-headstone schools were described as one of several protests against separating little girls from little boys in schools.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
But Peter still looked dazedly at his black cuff and at the turned earth next to the doctor's headstone, telling himself again that this was for Alix.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris