Boys

Examples

• She was dressed in blue, with woollen yellow stockings, like the Bluecoat boys. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He had met her before breakfast as he was returning from a walk with his little boys, when it had been just beginning to rain. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We loved each other about as boys generally do,--off and on, and in general;--he was my father's pet, and I my mother's. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now,' said another gentleman. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The papers were then brought home again, and the boys amused themselves to their hearts' content until the line was pulled down by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Bless his dear heart, he's been doing it all his life--helping poor boys, I mean, not getting rich, that he'll never be. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I must help my boys first, because, even for you, I may not break my word to Minna. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My Dear Mentor, Please make my adieux to your aunt, and exult within yourself, for 'Lazy Laurence' has gone to his grandpa, like the best of boys. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Wal, boys, the best way is to give him the flogging to do, till he gets over his notions. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The post-boys wondered at the fees he flung amongst them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The boy--not being able to make up his mind, at the moment--hung about among some other boys, staring at the good things in the eating-house window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My dear boys, what are you thinking about? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Here the boys called out that Mas'r Haley was coming, and then an unceremonious kick pushed open the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Well,' said Sam, 'of all the cool boys ever I set my eyes on, this here young gen'l'm'n is the coolest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Some English girls and boys are coming to see me tomorrow and I want to have a jolly time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Now, let me ask you girls and boys, Would you paper a room with representations of horses? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Go--leave me to my misery, boys, I am a ruined community. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I saw it was not easy to train him to the business,' replied the Jew; 'he was not like other boys in the same circumstances. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The affectation of the gauzy child, and her condescension to the boys, was a sight. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yes, if you are good, and love your book, as the boys in the primer are told to do, said Meg, smiling. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I've always longed for lots of boys, and never had enough, now I can fill the house full and revel in the little dears to my heart's content. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Switches were brought in bundles, from a beech wood near the school house, by the boys for whose benefit they were intended. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In advanced life we enjoy, while girls and boys pursue shadows and live on hope. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Two guineas a-piece, boys--don't let 'em gain on us--keep it up--keep it up. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I never see any difference in boys. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There was more agrarian revolt in the north than in the south; the Steel Boys, and later the Peep-o'-Day Boys, were Ulster terrorists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are made pleasant to some, but I would more rather give my boys gunpowder to play with than this bad trash. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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