Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.

For example, a boy may inherit a small jaw from one ancestor and large teeth from another.

A woman with a small boy slipped in between them.

A spectator picked up the ball and handed it to a small boy, who dropped this suddenly hot potato in a very playable lie.

Each boy opened his small mouth wide and rocked back and forth on the bench in the way his grandfather and great-grandfather had studied and prayed in the ghettos of Europe.

Another time he watched a mouse being pulled from its hole by a small boy.

Here, a small boy is shown knocking down a castle just constructed by a little girl out of children's building blocks.

Despite sharing a last name, he is not related to the early 20th century astronomer Frank Watson Dyson, but as a small boy Freeman Dyson was aware of Frank Watson Dyson.

When John was a small boy, his father left for World War I and served in Gallipoli and France.

* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )

Another claim was put forth by a young boy who stated that he had been hit by a small (~ 3 gram ) stone of the Mbale meteorite fall from Uganda, and who stood to gain nothing from this assertion.

The stone reportedly fell through a number of banana leaves before striking the boy on the head, causing little to no pain, as it was small enough to have been slowed by both friction with the atmosphere as well as that with banana leaves, before striking the boy.

Upon meeting a young boy named Sentaro, who taught her how to ride a bike, Skuld became determined to never quit and began to practice with her powers more, learning how to levitate small objects.

While he was still a small boy, his parents moved to Auburn, New York, where he and his brothers were educated in the public school system.

* Plague kills almost all the monks in a Northumbrian monastery, aside from the abbot and one small boy – future scholar Bede.

News of the murder was carried to Fort Dearborn by a soldier of the garrison named John Kelso and a small boy who had managed to escape from the farm.

When a three year old Christian boy, Simonino, later known as Simon of Trent, disappeared in 1475 on the eve of Good Friday, the city's small Jewish community was accused of killing him and draining his blood for Jewish ritual purposes.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin.

The merchant hastily formed a search party that scoured all corners of the city until the boy was found happily urinating in a small garden.

Another legend was that a small boy went missing from his mother when shopping in the centre of the city.

As a small child, Braille was blinded in an accident ; as a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness ; and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions.

A small Indian dived at Montero, who caught him with a swift upward stroke of his rifle butt.

with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

Mary Jane belonged to a world acquainted with small attractive hotels and pensions in all the major and minor cities.

He cleansed his mouth with a small quantity.

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

A little later, the sports shop man returned with a small pup tent.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

His conception proved workable but slower and it enabled his enemy to make clean, deft, well organized retreats with small materiel losses.

He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.

He defied the Boston hierarchy, and after they sent a small army to get him he befuddled the court, including John Cotton, with one of the most complicated religious discourses ever heard.

His later boastings of his skill with the small sword are indicative of much time and practice devoted to the use of that weapon.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

Starting with small stations not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the firm apparently is seeking to break down the anti-liquor barriers in major-market stations.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass ; ;

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.