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Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.
`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.
She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!
Then the boy straight-armed himself up, twisting at the last moment so he landed sitting.
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.
at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.
The colored boy had it, and Trig lunged at him with a knife and said, ' Give that to me, you black bastard.
The boy shuddered at the deathly pale countenance with its wrinkles and gray hair.
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.
Reduced to beggary, he at last got a job as office boy to a television producer.
For the boy, this epiphysis was markedly delayed at Onset but near the mean at Completion.
They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.
He had been a choir boy at the Holy Name Cathedral and also served as an acolyte to Father O'Brien.
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.
When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.
High motivation towards higher education must start early enough so that by the time the boy or girl reaches grade 9 he or she has at least developed those basic skills which are essential for academic work.
Judge Benjamin Michaelson signed the order remanding the boy to the hospital because of the lack of juvenile accommodations at the Anne Arundel County Jail.
I'd never even petted with a boy, and after I met Johnnie he never touched me for the longest while, not until I all but threw myself at him.
The boy usually was sent out at about that time with the water, and he always dragged an old snow-fence lath or a stick along, to play with.
I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.
The boy was there at the lower corner of the field, and he was in the plowed earth, stamping with ferocity and a kind of frenzied impatience.
Even at that distance, with no sound but the sound of the tractor, I could tell the fierce mark of brutality on the boy.

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The boy came on to the porch and sat down, his gaze on Morgan as if half expecting him to shoot and not really caring.
`` You brought him back to this valley thinkin he would help you find your boy.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He wants Mommy to think him a good boy.
The nigger boy was close behind him.
If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.
It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.
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.
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.
Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??
The younger boy said the blast knocked him out of bed and against the wall.
He broke that boy ( Air Force fullback Nick Arshinkoff ) in two and knocked him loose from the football ''.
The story is of a famous strip cartoonist, an arty individual, whose specialty is the American boy and who adopts a 10-year-old to provide him with fresh idea material.
But slowly they take over as Alain Delon ( Life, Sept. 15 ), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from the act.

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