Boyhood
['bɒɪhʊd] or ['bɔɪhʊd]
Definition
(n.) The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy.
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Examples
- It had laid hold of his imagination in boyhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There are many stories told of the boyhood of James Watt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I said he was my dearest friend, the protector of my boyhood, and the companion of my prime. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The smile passed from Countess Olenska's eyes to her lips: she looked younger, more like the bold brown Ellen Mingott of his boyhood. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Clym had been so inwoven with the heath in his boyhood that hardly anybody could look upon it without thinking of him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But his feelings are not in the least changed or oldened, and his love remains as fresh as a man's recollections of boyhood are. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Wrights’ home was in Dayton, Ohio, and there they had spent their boyhood, in no way distinguished from their neighbors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Travel and experience mar the grandest pictures and rob us of the most cherished traditions of our boyhood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was as if the tranquil sanctuary of my boyhood had been sacked before my face, and its peace and honour given to the winds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- During his childhood and his boyhood he had wanted a sort of savagedom. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To those influences, and to the improving society of my friend from boyhood, commend me with your best wishes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Akki the irrigator reared me to boyhood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What recollections of boyhood and innocence might have been flitting across his brain? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This was a bold move by the young inventor, then just escaped from boyhood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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