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.

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.

Jones was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy in the 1960-61 academic year.

He entrusted the boy to be educated in Montfort's care in 1211, but was soon forced to take up arms against him, dying at the Battle of Muret on 12 September 1213.

Suffering from occasional poor health as a boy, he was educated at home by the Reverend Edward Wilson.

.. Sceaf ; who, as some affirm, was driven on a certain island in Germany, called Scandza, ( of which Jornandes, the historian of the Goths, speaks ), a little boy in a skiff, without any attendant, asleep, with a handful of corn at his head, whence he was called Sceaf ; and, on account of his singular appearance, being well received by the men of that country, and carefully educated, in his riper age he reigned in a town which was called Slaswic, but at present Haithebi ; which country, called old Anglia, whence the Angles came into Britain, is situated between the Saxons and the Goths.

The son of a village policeman, Waite was educated at Stockton Heath County Secondary school where he became head boy.

Brummell was educated at Eton and made his precocious mark on fashion when he not only modernized the white stock, or cravat, that was the mark of the Eton boy, but added a gold buckle to it.

His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

He was first educated as a young boy by a teacher of grammar, who came, according to Thomas, " I know not by what fate save it was the Grace of God ".

In 1821 Captain Robertson retired to Beverley, where the boy was educated.

Curry, the son of a teacher, was educated at the Ripon Grammar School where he was head boy in 1962, and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he received a BA degree in Modern History in 1966.

However, one has to remember that Gojong was not chosen to become King because of his acumen ( which he lacked because he was never formally educated ) or because of his bloodline ( which was mixed with courtesan and common blood ), but because the Pungyang Jo clan had falsely assumed they could control the boy through his father.

The boy was educated in a school established by the Jesuit priest, Father Le Jeune and later baptised as Olivier Le Jeune, taking the first name of the colony's head clerk, Olivier Letardif, and the surname of the Jesuit priest.

He was educated at Queen Victoria School ( Fiji ), where he became the head boy in his final year.

He collected a great many new specimens in 1801 and 1802, though Baudin's journal suggests that he did not work particularly hard ; apparently the poorly educated gardener's boy Antoine Guichenot collected more plant specimens than Leschenault did, and gave them more useful labels.

Tom Bingham was educated at the Cumbrian public school Sedbergh School ( Winder House ), where he was described as the " brightest boy in a hundred years ".

He was educated at Eton College, where he caused a fellow pupil to be expelled for making advances to another boy.

Educating towards arete in this sense means that the boy would be educated towards things that are useful in life.

This boy she freed and educated, leaving him the property and books of Buddas-Terebinthus.

He “ enjoyed the resources and visibility of the GGL establishment without being confined to its agenda ,” and “ built an image of an articulate, smooth, Harvard and MIT educated man .” Cisneros also was a local grown home boy who “ cared about the problems of the common person .”

Walpole was educated at a series of boarding schools in England, principally at Truro School for two years, the King's School, Canterbury for two years and as a day boy for four years at Durham School, when his father was principal of Bede College at the university.

As a boy, William Smith was educated at the Miller Instituition, known as the “ Thurso Academy ”.

As a boy, he was educated at Gladstone Road School.

His aims were simple but ambitious ( as expressed to an educated man ): " I defy the Pope and all his laws: and if God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scriptures than thou dost.