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boy and came
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.
And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.
winter came, and with it Mary's baby -- a boy as she had wished.
I stopped the tractor and climbed down and the boy came eagerly up to me.
The boy came around behind me, dragging the stake.
As a boy, he came under the influence of Zachariah Mudge, whose Platonistic philosophy stayed with him all his life.
" It was ( after a cake fight ) that the cry came to ' debag ' the birthday boy ...
Along the route, Frémont and party came across a Mexican man and a boy who had survived an ambush by a band of Natives.
When he was a boy, he met a young girl at the beach and she went out into the water and never came back.
In the unfinished TV serial " Shada ", fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis said that the Type 40 models came out when he was a boy.
" During Vladimir's interrogation of the boy, he asks if he came the day before, making it apparent that the two men have been waiting for an indefinite period and will likely continue to wait ad infinitum.
This boy also has a brother who it seems is sick but there is no clear evidence to suggest that his brother is the boy that came in Act I or the one who came the day before that.
The inspiration for the surname came from a boy called Palmer whom Caine knew at school.
") Still, his time alone gave the boy ample freedom to read every book which came his way.
For example, in Basque the noun mutil (" boy ") takes the bare singular article-a both as subject of the intransitive clause mutila etorri da (" the boy came ") and as object of the transitive clause Irakasleak mutila ikusi du (" the teacher has seen the boy "), in which the subject bears the ergative ending-a-k.
Kazan notes that much of it came from stories that he heard as a young boy.

boy and on
He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.
The boy lifted the girl by the waist and set her on the lip of the floor.
There are ghostly scenes in which the little boy on his rocking horse rocks madly toward the climax that will magically give him the name of the winning horse.
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.
The disappearance caused his family to assign a full-time maid to keeping an eye on the boy.
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.
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.
You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.
There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.
Our suspicions eventually centered, by the process of elimination, on a grocer's boy, a thoroughly bad hat, who delivered cartons to the people overhead.
Thus in it's incredible what that boy can eat dominant stress is likely to be on incredible, and eat will have strong stress also.
For Marvin Goulding, like Giovanni Martini, the bugler boy who carried Custer's last message, or Margarito Lopez, the one-man Army on Leyte, was a Garryowen, through and through.
A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.
He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.
`` Send out a pickup on Mrs. Mason and the boy when you've got enough to go on '', Bill said.
Hastily the boy switched on a ceiling light.
Then, after I'm back, another fifty so you can put some mileage on yourself and have a solid alibi somewhere while I take care of your seat cover boy ''.
Each boy opened his small mouth wide and rocked back and forth on the bench in the way his grandfather and great-grandfather had studied and prayed in the ghettos of Europe.
The old woman had a nephew from North Italy, a poor boy from a lumber mill who had got tired of the seasonal unemployment, and who had migrated to Canada to work on the railway.
Victoria was fourteen months younger than Quint, a head taller, and could lick any boy or girl on the beach.
He stood on the rock, a skinny, dignified boy surrounded by the ocean.
Even at that distance, with no sound but the sound of the tractor, I could tell the fierce mark of brutality on the boy.

boy and porch
Barely able to outrun them, she reaches the front porch and manages to shout a pre-arranged warning to Edward, but is wounded in the shoulder by a thrown tomahawk, and the boy fires the gun through the front window, killing three raiders and driving off the remaining two ( one of them, apparently wounded, is later killed by the returning militia ).
During his long drive to the Beer ' N ' Brawl, Homer passes a boy playing a banjo on a porch, a reference to the " Dueling Banjos " sequence in the film Deliverance.

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