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As a boy, Nānu would listen to his father with keen interest when he narrated stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the simple folks of his village.
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I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.
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In the last year at the gymnasium, Linnaeus ' father visited to ask the professors how his son's studies were progressing ; to his dismay, most said that the boy would never become a scholar.
If a boy struck his father they would cut off the boy's hand or fingers ( translations vary ).
Later a group consisting of the three major servants of Dalai Lama, eminent officials and troops will collect the boy and his family and travel to Lhasa, where the boy would be taken, usually to Drepung Monastery to study the Buddhist sutra in preparation for assuming the role of spiritual leader of Tibet.
He was said to possess the ability to heal through prayer and was indeed able to give the boy some relief, in spite of the doctors ' prediction that he would die.
Astonished, Amphitryon sent for the seer Tiresias, who prophesied an unusual future for the boy, saying he would vanquish numerous monsters.
Davy's friends would often say: “ This boy Humphry is incorrigible.
The Scarletts and the Barretts had been friends for many years in Jamaica, and it seems natural that James Scarlett would have been selected to keep an eye on young Moulton, while the boy was at school in England.
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The Persian intervention prevented Christianity from spreading eastward into Arabia, and Mecca and the Islamic prophet Muhammad who was at the time a six year boy in the Quraysh tribe " would not grow up under the cross.
As a young boy, he was divinely inspired to prophesy about a coming time that would be unbearable and that the time to leave Russia was now.
To receive a wyakin, a young girl or boy around the age of 12 to 15 would go to the mountains on a vision quest.
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Scott admitted feeling " stunned and truly humbled " after the ceremony, saying, " As a boy growing up in South Shields, I could never have imagined that I would receive such a special recognition.
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Despite Jack's instructions to leave Little Jack to self-soothe by himself, Greg cannot bear to listen to Little Jack's cries and tends to the boy to cheer him up, turning the television on, acting funny and inadvertently teaching Little Jack to say " asshole ".
King pointed to his son, saying " This is a boy, I'm a man ; until you call me one, I will not listen to you.
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Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).
" For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother were sent to live with their father, whom the young boy scarcely knew.
Animator Chuck Jones, who lived near his Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered his father saying he watched Chaplin shoot a scene more than a hundred times until he was satisfied with it.
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