It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

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

Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.

Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.

I am not a prostitute, and I had only one very wealthy boy friend '', she said.

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

One of them was a very friendly, lovely fellow named Ronald, a boy about my age with slick, blond hair and dancing blue eyes.

One source for this was when, as a very young boy, he would hear his father, grandfather, and cowboys give out loud cries when the music moved them.

Gow, his tutor, said he " made himself as big a nuisance as he could " and " was a very unattractive boy ".

Legend has it that Shancai ( also called Sudhana in Sanskrit ) was a disabled boy from India who was very interested in studying the dharma.

Brian's mother protests: " He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy ".

The line, " He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

In addition to retaining many mod influences, early skinheads were very interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and early reggae ( before the tempo slowed down and lyrics became focused on topics like black nationalism and the Rastafari movement ).

As their father thought that the navy was " the very best possible training for any boy ", in September 1877, when George was 12 years old, both brothers joined the cadet training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, Devon.

Previous logic had dealt with the logical constants and, or, if ... then ..., not, and some and all, but iterations of these operations, especially " some " and " all ", were little understood: even the distinction between a pair of sentences like " every boy loves some girl " and " some girl is loved by every boy " was able to be represented only very artificially, whereas Frege's formalism had no difficulty expressing the different readings of " every boy loves some girl who loves some boy who loves some girl " and similar sentences, in complete parallel with his treatment of, say, " every boy is foolish ".

The above theme is present in almost all of Bertolucci's works, starting with his second film, Prima della rivoluzione ( 1964 ), where this theme is very clear in the story of a young upper-middle agrarian class boy from Parma ( Francesco Barilli ), who, incapable of dealing with his best friend's suicide, throws himself into a relationship with a much older distant relative from Milan ( played by Adriana Asti ).

A strong and healthy boy, but very shy, Louis-Auguste excelled in his studies and had a strong taste for Latin, history, geography, and astronomy, and became fluent in Italian and English.

They find that the boy is indeed very strong with the Force, having the greatest midi-chlorian count ever recorded, but say he is too old to begin the training.

Rackin cites the same quote, " Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I ’ th ’ posture of a whore ” to make the argument that here the audience is reminded of the very same treatment Cleopatra is receiving on Shakespeare's stage ( since she is being portrayed by a boy actor ) ( V. ii. 214-217 ).

He was a private conservative and very religious person, who, as a young boy, stayed far from public life.

She very much likes Tom, a boy her age, but when he proposes to her she rejects him (" I don't love yer so as ter marry yer ").

Griffin says that, allowing for rhetorical exaggeration, means " it is fair to conclude that Seneca was in Rome as a very small boy.

`` Yeah, seems so, don't it '', the boy laughed, hugging her close.

The nigger boy was close behind him.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

Sonny was a close friend of Anthony's father, Blackie Dammett, and would often take the boy on weekend trips.

The local government commissioner, Constans-Saint-Esteve, also observed the boy and wrote there was " something extraordinary in his behavior, which makes him seem close to the state of wild animals ".

" As it happened, the childless man had indeed been wishing he had a boy of his own, and the inquiry led not only to a job, but to a close relationship.

The cornett ’ s tone quality was often described as being close to the human voice, particularly that of a boy soprano.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

Only when the old maid Marie, who would carry him on her arm when he was a young boy, get close to her, he will call her with his sonorous baritone, fairly lively, voice.

MacBride was the son of one of Lane's editors with whom she formed a close bond when he was a young boy ; she later admitted that she was grooming him to be a future Libertarian thought leader.

Some of this animosity appears to have come from Clampett's perceived " golden boy " status at the studio ( Clampett's mother was said to be a close friend of cartoon producer Leon Schlesinger ), which allowed him to ignore studio rules that everyone else were expected to follow.

Bud does find a girl who is willing to become sexually involved with him ; when Deanie finds out and is later almost raped by another boy, she is driven close to madness and institutionalized.

Pausanias, the legal expert of the group, begins by taking Phaedrus up on his chosen examples ( 180c ), asserting that the love that deserves attention is not the kind associated with Aphrodite Pandemos ( Aphrodite common to the whole city ) whose object may equally be a woman or a boy, but that of Aphrodite Urania ( Heavenly Aphrodite ), which " springs entirely from the male " and is " free from wantonness "; the object of this kind of love is not a child, but one who has begun to display intelligence and is close to growing a beard ( 181e ).

The boy developed the telltale rash over 80 percent of his body after coming into close contact with his father, who was vaccinated for smallpox before being deployed overseas by the United States Army.

Westheimer befriended the boy, who had no father, and began to urge his close friends to get involved as " big brothers " with other young boys from fatherless homes.

As a young boy he was brought up with the future King Francis I and they became close.

The boy always lamented not having a mother ; he was never close to his father or stepmother.

His education at Alleyn's School and the Glyn Grammar School led him to start his career performing as a boy soprano in several works by the composer Benjamin Britten, who formed a close friendship with him at this time.

Luckily, a stranger walks by at that moment and notices the boy close to the cliff and his camera nearby.

The education of boys differed from that of girls ; it was instilled into a boy that he was called to defend those close to him in the future, to play an independent role in the family and in society, and to become a good worker in the fields.

* The Sisters – After the priest Father Flynn dies, a young boy who was close to him and his family deal with it only superficially.

In 2001 he was caught speeding on a jet ski close to the beach, not long after criticising boy racers.

"... despite the close relationship between parents and children, compare the birth of a boy resulting in celebration versus the birth of a girl resulting in her being killed.

Though Weston loved his daughters and was close to them, he always wanted a boy and occasionally expressed regret at never having had one.