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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.
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Still she would probably have sense enough not to call in the local sheriff to find her boy friend who, apparently, had run away.
The abduction of Cephalus had special appeal for an Athenian audience because Cephalus was a local boy, and so this myth element appeared frequently in Attic vase-paintings and was exported with them.
Banks played in local colliery football as a boy and was offered an apprenticeship by Chesterfield after initially going to work as a coal bagger and then as a bricklayer on leaving school.
The local newspaper Tønsbergs Blad in Tønsberg, Norway similarly used Kult in relation to the disappearance of a boy called Andreas Hammer on July 1, 1994.
Miles investigates a cryogenic corporation on the planet Kibou-daini, with the assistance of Jin, a local boy.
It was produced by Disney and featured over 3, 500 local children from different ethnic backgrounds and a performance by boy band New Kids on the Block, with special guest Warren Moon.
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 ".
* Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln was an English boy whose disappearance in 1255 prompted a blood libel against the local Jews.
The anti-Semitic newspaper Бессарабец ( Bessarabetz, meaning " Bessarabian "), published by Pavel Krushevan, insinuated that a Russian boy was killed by local Jews.
Zulu was a Waikiki beach boy and local DJ when he was cast for the part of Kono, which he played for the next four years.
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.
As a boy, he took many odd jobs around Russell, and he would later work as a soda jerk in the local drug store.
As a boy he was thrown out of the grounds of local estates for trespass so in later life he purchased and gave land to the town to provide a public space ; this park, which opened in 1906, is called Collett Park in his honour.
Norval Jones ( Eddie Bracken ), a local 4-F boy who has been in love with Trudy for years, steps in to help out, but Trudy's over-protective father ( William Demarest ), a policeman, gets involved and complicates matters.
He often found himself working for jewellers, first, at eleven, as an errand boy, and later as a salesperson for a local goldsmith.
A boy recognizes the mules ' brand and alerts the local police, leading to a gunfight with the outlaws.
While attempting to secure drivers for their vehicles ( to be delivered to the takeout point ), Drew briefly connects with a local banjo-playing boy by joining him in an impromptu bluegrass jam.
During a game of golf after Vicky becomes offended by Steve's need to beat a local boy, who has bet with him while playing.
Subsequently, she placed the boy in a local evening school, though not without objections from a neighbor.
The town of Bluford was named after Bluford " Bluf " Green ( 1868 – 1912 ) when he was a small boy by his father Wiley Green ( 1835 – 1878 ), who was the local justice of the peace.
boy and school
During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.
In general, however, it may be said that when a boy or a girl leaves the high school, the school authorities play little or no part in the decision of what happens next.
Returning to the school crossing, the officer was informed by the Sisk boy that he recognized the driver, a neighbor, and had obtained the license number.
At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: " The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.
A teacher's marriage and identity are threatened by a dangerously obsessed teenage boy at his school.
Danny said he had wanted to become a surgeon as a young boy, but there was no chance of the family being able to afford a medical school education for him.
On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).
A California school district sought to prevent a young boy with AIDS, Ryan Thomas, from attending kindergarten.
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.
Nicknamed " Kim " after the young boy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, Philby attended Aldro preparatory school.
A sketch about a boy who dies at school appeared on the unreleased The Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck Album ( 1981 ).
This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class — which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.
He dropped out of school at age 14 to become a copy boy for the New York Sun, with the ultimate aspiration to become a journalist.
Rabbi Solevetchik taught all religious Ashkenazi Jews with the exception of hardline Hasidim, not should, or if they show motivation, but must teach their female children Gemarah like the boy school children.
" Indeed, many seemingly invincible juggernauts have been instantly defeated with a single school boy pin.
Upon his debut, Roger sported the usual school boy shorts, however he began wearing trousers during the 1970s.
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