Because of its excellence, it soon gained a reputation in the whole country and attracted the most brilliant pupils of France.

According to one report she was "counted an especially brilliant pupil" at this school.

In this way, he stylishly passed on the baton to his brilliant pupil.

He felt like a schoolmaster forced to confront a brilliant but wayward pupil.

Napoleon as a boy was anything but a brilliant pupil.

A brilliant pupil in school, he initially studied to become a chemist.

The old man's words came back to me; Lestat a brilliant pupil, a lover of books that had been burned.

Blunt later considered MacGregor "the most brilliant pupil he ever taught".

'Poor Girl' has a little of her life as a governess: her brilliant pupil is there, but not his parents.

She was reported to have been a "brilliant and unruly pupil".