Boyish

Examples

• To complete her confusion, she saw Belle nudge Annie, and both glance from her to Laurie, who, she was happy to see, looked unusually boyish and shy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• This boyish notion won no converts, and at the age of eighteen he went on a lecture tour on chemistry, under the dignified title of Dr. Coult. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The realization of my boyish day-dreams is at hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• In Edison's boyish days it was quite different, and telegraphic supplies were hard to obtain. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was boyish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Herr Loerke was the little man with the boyish figure, and the round, full, sensitive-looking head, and the quick, full eyes, like a mouse's. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I made the admission with reluctance, for it seemed to have a boyish look, and she already treated me more than enough like a boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In my boyish days she was the universe to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Jo quite glowed with pleasure at this boyish praise of her sister, and stored it up to repeat to Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The boyish weakness of this speech, combined with its great selfishness, made it a poor one indeed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, want to read it? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A boyish scheme, indeed! Jane Austen. Emma.
• The boyish abandon of that stout man was charming to behold, for though he 'carried weight', he danced like an India-rubber ball. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I remembered the dark monk, and floating figures of The Italian, and how my boyish blood had thrilled at the description. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Clym's boyish love for her might have languished, but it might easily be revived again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It's so boyish! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Little Sweeting, small and boyish as he was, would have been worth twenty of them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was in the hey-day of youth, in the pride of boyish folly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In our boyish want of discretion I dare say we took too much to drink, and I know we talked too much. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But when his boyish figure bobbed away, its shabbiness and cheerful patience smote the tears out of her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Everything on our side,' repeated the boy with boyish confidence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Get thy wounds healed, purvey thee a better horse, and it may be I will hold it worth my while to scourge out of thee this boyish spirit of bravado. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He laughed out again, this time in boyish satisfaction. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I think he was possibly disappointed at my being so young a man; I had only just turned twenty-one, and had a very boyish appearance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ungrateful dog--boyish to cry--can't help it--bad fever--weak-- ill--hungry. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I was a boyish husband as to years. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I say, Jo, that's rather too much, he began, just in his old boyish way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Yes; but I shall hardly ever see you now, said Will, in a tone of almost boyish complaint. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ordinarily he was like other normal lads of his age--full of boyish, hearty enjoyments--but withal possessed of an unquenchable spirit of inquiry and an insatiable desire for knowledge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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