Altogether he had, since the seizure, the appearance of a boy who overindulged in food and took no exercise.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

Seems like she's willing, but the male just flops around all day like the bashful boy who took Jeannie May behind the barn and then didn't know what to do, and the people at the zoo haven't got any vulture chicks to show for their trouble.

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.

This was a broth of a boy, our Felix, and nothing was more obvious than the joy he took in demonstrating how agile he was and how full of juice and spirit.

Thirty-one minutes later, when it took off for El Paso, hardly anyone of the crew of six or the 65 other passengers paid any attention to the man and teen-age boy who had come aboard.

After a few unsuccessful stabs at entry-level office work and other jobs suitable for adolescents, Julius took to the stage as a boy singer in 1905.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

Sanitte also took care of the infant boy Jean.

The boy had problems adjusting to life in America and never took well to school.

Powell advocated the privatisation of the Post Office and the telephone network as early as 1964, over 20 years before the latter actually took place ; and he both scorned the idea of " consensus politics " and wanted the Conservative Party to become a modern business-like party, freed from its old aristocratic and " old boy network " associations.

Tracy had his own concerns with a young homeless boy whom he took under his wing to become adopted son and sidekick with the name, Dick Tracy Jr., or simply " Junior.

Emerson took a paternal and at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to a circle of local writers and thinkers, including Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian Hawthorne, who was a boy at the time.

Upon the exile of Henry's father in 1398, Richard II took the boy into his own charge and treated him kindly.

In 1802, she adopted a three-month old boy, William Austin, and took him into her home.

At school, David developed a defence against bullies by making them laugh: and took on the lead role in the school play, when the boy playing it developed measles.

As a boy, he took many odd jobs around Russell, and he would later work as a soda jerk in the local drug store.

The boy then took a seventh grader hostage.

Ray Brower, the boy who went missing and the reason Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern took the camping trip to Back Harlow Road, is from Chamberlain, which is the setting for the King's first novel Carrie.

When Jacob was six years old, his father taught him to play the violin ; within two years the boy was composing songs and dances, and at the age of nine he took up the cello.

Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia ( a region of southeastern Greece ), took as his first wife the cloud goddess Nephele, by whom he had two children, the boy Phrixus and the girl Helle.

Rudolph's ally, a Carolingian himself, Count Herbert II of Vermandois, took Charles captive by treachery and the young Louis's mother took the boy " over the sea " to the safety of England, hence his nickname.

Adult males were excluded from bridal processions ; these took place at night and were headed by a young boy, who carried a torch in honour of Ceres.

From the 1950s on, shōnen manga focused on topics thought to interest the archetypal boy, including subjects like robots, space-travel, and heroic action-adventure.

As a boy Banks enjoyed exploring the Lincolnshire countryside, and developed a keen interest in nature, history and botany.

I'd look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley.

As a boy he had an interest in landscape design and gardening, and his parents allowed him to landscape the yard at their new home in Elmhurst.

Deighton's interest in spy stories may have been partially inspired by the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, which he witnessed as an 11-year-old boy.

Noah Webster as a boy studied Dilworth's book, and was inspired partly by it to create his own spelling book on completely different principles, using pictures and stories of interest to children.

He seems to have taken an interest in the marriage and career of his stepdaughter and he also took a young slave boy under his wing, as he was childless, who died c. 95.

* Justin Walker as Christian Stovitz: Cher's love interest, a boy whose parents are divorced ; he alternates semesters in Chicago and Beverly Hills ( Cher believes this " is a travesty on the part of the legal profession ").

Bobby is unaware that, as a boy his own age, Adolf Hitler had a related interest as an amateur artist.

Despite Port Vale being Matthews ' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion ; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £ 1 a week.

The lyrics tell a story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood and leaves Puff alone and depressed.

Since the costs of the school surpassed the family's means, the boy was supported by public resources and spent his school years in a dwelling for poor students ; he was given special attention and instruction by the rector of the Gymnasium, Georg Nikolaus Köhler, who sparked his interest in languages, loaned him Greek texts, and devised special exercises in which the boy had to reconstruct intelligible texts from fragments.

Lee Harvey Oswald, at that time a 14-year old disturbed boy living in the Bronx, received one of thse pamphlets, and six years later would tell a reporter in Moscow ( after he had defected to the USSR ) that this marked the beginning of this interest in " socialist literature ," which he then proceeded to seek out and read, soon becoming a self-described lifelong " Marxist.

: Monica Colby's biological son, with Cash Cassidy, a bright young boy with an interest in space technology, who was raised by Cash and his wife, Adrienne.

Fortunately, a well-known orthopedic surgeon took an interest in his case and agreed to treat the boy for free if his parents would allow medical students to observe.

King George's fatherly interest and patronage of the young boy gave rise to rumours, quite unfounded, that he may have been his illegitimate son.

He published Essay on the Education of Youth, in which he wrote that he did not " study the interest of the boy but the embryo Man ".

By the time he was twelve, he was playing so well that one day he was practicing in a cellar when the legendary Henri Vieuxtemps, passing in the street, was so impressed with the sound of his violin that he took an interest in the boy.

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.

However, the latter does credit Sir Frank with sparking his interest in astronomy ; because they shared the same last name, Sir Frank's achievements were discussed by Freeman Dyson's family when he was a young boy.

As a boy, Dunstable is raised as a Presbyterian, but he also takes an avid interest in Catholic saints.

As a boy, he showed an interest in flight, experimenting with kites and earning the nickname " the flyer ".