Occasionally, children were given names that were descriptive of the circumstances under which they were born, " Nduku " ( girl ) and " Mutuku " ( boy ) meaning born at night ," Kioko " ( boy ) born in the morning, " Mumbua / Syombua " ( girl ) and " Wambua " ( boy ) for the time of rain, " Wayua " ( girl ) for the time of famine, " Makau " ( boy ) for the time of war, " Musyoka / Kasyuko / Musyoki " ( boy ) and " Kasyoka / Kasyoki " ( girl ) as a re-incarnation of a dead family member, " Mutua " ( boy ) and " Mutuo / Mwikali " ( girl ) as indicative of the long duration the parents had waited for this child, or a lengthy period of gestation.

One night, as she waited for her lover to arrive, he smashed her light, leaving the boy in the middle of the lake without a guide to indicate which direction to swim.

One day, a pony and trap carrying the boy across the causeway became lost and sank into the marshes, killing all aboard, while Jennet looked on from the window of Eel Marsh House as she waited for them.

One of the kidney recipients was a critically ill five-year-old boy, and the other was a 43-year-old grandmother of three who had waited eight years for a kidney.

** Kevin Carter, a freelance photographer, for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese boy who collapsed on his way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.

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.

The boy scowled at him, and the girl looked shocked.

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.

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.

He arrived as a German immigrant and worked as a stable boy at his uncle's hotel, which held the dry town's last ( and maybe only ) liquor license at the corner of Spang and West Main Street across from the railroad station.

His remains were brought by train to Stranorlar, County Donegal, where he is buried in a corner of the Church of Ireland cemetery beneath a tree by which he used to sit and dream as a boy.

As a 12-year old in 1939, Nash was a newspaper boy selling the Toronto Star and Toronto Telegram at the corner of Bathurst and Eglinton for three cents a copy.

This may have been the reference in the legal opinion of United States v. Leviton, 193 F. 2d 848 ( 2nd Circuit, 1951 ), makes reference in its opinion, " As I have elsewhere observed, it is like the Mark Twain story of the little boy who was told to stand in a corner and not to think of a white elephant.

The text in the lower right corner says: " He drives a Maserati / She's a professional model / The boy is the son of the / art editor of Time magazine / Some revolution!

His family struggled financially and at a young age Adams took a job as a chore boy at a corner grocery store to help subsidize the family ’ s income.

At the turn of the century, the streets were so bad that a boy named Joseph Bufonchio drowned in a sink-hole at the corner of Third and Jackson.

In Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas ( Parliament ) in Ireland, the Ceann Comhairle ( chair ) has ruled that it is disorderly for one Teachta Dála ( deputy ) to describe another as a brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, coward, fascist, fatty, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous speaker or yahoo ; or to insinuate that a TD is lying or drunk ; or has violated the secrets of cabinet, or doctored an official report.

Sure, when Twenty-five comes, we'll have our own agin, the right will overcome the might-the bottomless pit will be locked-ay, double bolted, if St. Pether gets the kays, for he's the very boy that will acommodate the heretics wid a warm corner ; an ' yit, faith, ther's many o ' them that myself ' ud put in a good word for, after all.

Situated on the lower right hand corner, the whole spectacle is being watched by an infant boy dressed in a sailor ’ s suit who is said to represent Dali as a youth.

The first experience involved a " young boy sitting in the corner ".

Recurring characters in the skits include: Sugar ( Sue Scott ), a romantic interest ; Jimmy ( Tim Russell ), a bartender ; and Wendell ( Tom Keith ), the boy who works at the deli around the corner.

That Hitler is the boy in the top-right corner is not disputed ( see above right ).