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boy and young
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
Under the trees, there was a dead redcoat, a young boy with a pasty white skin and a face full of pimples, who had taken a rifle ball directly between the eyes.
He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.
`` When your mother was here he must have been a young boy.
Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.
As a young boy, Tarrou attended one day of a criminal proceeding in which a man was on trial for his life.
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 young boy only of 19 years.
During the sojourn in the city ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá grew from a boy into a young man.
The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".
It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.
The Life of Ceolfrith, written in about 710, records that only two surviving monks were capable of singing the full offices ; one was Ceolfrith and the other a young boy, who according to the anonymous writer had been taught by Ceolfrith and was " now a priest of the same monastery ".
The young boy was almost certainly Bede, who would have been about 14.
The picture book " The Dream Eater " by Christian Garrison tells the story of a young boy, Yukio, who meets a baku and brings it to his village.
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.
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.
The young boy confidently entertained the crowd, and received laughter and applause.
The event seems to have influenced Chaplin's work, as he planned a film that turned the Tramp into the carer of a young boy.

boy and Peter
In 1982, British courts recognised prior art by Peter Chilvers, who as a young boy on Hayling Island assembled his first board combined with a sail, in 1958.
* 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident ; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
Accordingly, Richard asked to have the crossbowman brought before him ; called alternatively Pierre ( or Peter ) Basile, John Sabroz, Dudo, and Bertrand de Gurdon ( from the town of Gourdon ) by chroniclers, the man turned out ( according to some sources, but not all ) to be a boy.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone writes " Hayden Christensen is sensational as Glass, finding the wonder boy and the weasel in a disturbed kid flying high on a fame he hasn't earned.
Garraty becomes closest to Peter McVries, a boy with a prominent facial scar who speculates that his own reason for joining the Walk is a subconscious death wish.
In Barrie's story, Hook captures Wendy Darling, the girl who loves Peter and whom Peter views as his surrogate mother, and challenges the boy to a final duel.
He seeks revenge on Peter Pan for having fed the crocodile his hand amidst battle, and will keep his ship and its crew anchored in Never Land's waters until he finds the boy.
" Another journalist, Peter Heller, echoes that comment: " Sulaiman ... became little more than an errand boy for Don King.
Peter Sellers lived as a boy in a cottage in Muswell Hill Road, where his mother had moved in order to send him to the Catholic St Aloysius boys ' school in Hornsey Lane.
The third Red Skull ( Albert Malik ) is best known for causing the deaths of the parents of Peter Parker, and thus orphaning the boy who would become Spider-Man.
The boy, Peter, was wed to María Rodríguez, a daughter of El Cid, in 1098, a marriage celebrated in the Cantar de mio Cid and subsequent literature.
Peter Hammond is buried on the east side of town under the Hammond Oak along with his wife, three daughters, and a favorite slave boy ( see inset showing the spreading oak at gravesite ).
* Robbie Mannheim, a. k. a. Roland Doe, alleged demonically possessed boy who inspired William Peter Blatty to write the fictionalized book, The Exorcist
Peter learned that May had known this ' Richard Parker ,' in truth a clone of Peter who'd been artificially aged, had been alive for months and had kept the secret from Peter to " protect him ," believing that if Richard had deliberately kept his survival secret from his own family for years then he was not worth knowing and that the revelation that Peter had been abandoned, not orphaned, would be too much for the boy.
As soon as the bullies were gone, he told the boy that he was not welcome at the house or with Peter because of his provoking the bullies and not being able to tell the truth.
Her husband, Peter of Courtenay, was third emperor of the Latin Empire ( also known as Romania, not to be confused with modern Romania ), and had been followed by his son Robert of Courtenay, on whose death in 1228 the succession passed to Baldwin, then an 11-year-old boy.
" pretty boy "), are an Asian version of the elfin boy archetype represented in Western tradition by figures such as Peter Pan and Ariel.
*" The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head ": Viscount St. George appears as a boy as Lord Peter uses clues from a rare book to find a treasure.
Cary also gave the boy a name: Peter.

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

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