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

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

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.

He brought his Winchester in from the front of the house, then faced the boy.

`` You brought him back to this valley thinkin he would help you find your boy.

The boy was becoming acquainted with the contadini families that brought produce into Rome.

Goll killed Fionn's father, Cumhal, in battle and the boy Fionn was brought up in secrecy.

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

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.

She and Marshall had been unable to have children, and when she brought the baby home, Marshall told her that she could " keep him, provided he did not squall ..." Marshall grew to love the boy and wrote that he " never walked the streets of Washington with as sure a certainty as he walked into my heart ", and, as the boy grew older, that he was " beautiful as an angel ; brilliant beyond his years ; lovable from every standpoint.

When he was six the family moved to Woodford Hall, where new opportunities for an out-of-door life brought the boy health and vigour.

Clotho, one of the three Fates, ordered by Zeus, brought the boy to life again ( she collected the parts of the body and boiled them in a sacred cauldron ), rebuilding his shoulder with one wrought of ivory made by Hephaestus and presented by Demeter.

With little money in the family, this brought the boy to reality and he realized the need for academic excellence.

He was brought to the château at Meudon in the hope that its country air would help the young boy recover.

Muirne left the boy in the care of Bodhmall and a warrior woman, Liath Luachra, who brought him up in secret in the forest of Sliabh Bladma, teaching him the arts of war and hunting.

Rider is described in the book as having buttocks like a boy, which brought a response from Fleming's friend Noël Coward that " I was also slightly shocked by the lascivious announcement that Honeychile's bottom was like a boy's.

She imagines that " the quick comedians / Extemporally will stage us, and present / Our Alexandrian revels: Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I ' th ' posture of a whore.

For instance, in act five scene two, Cleopatra exclaims, “ Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I ’ th ’ posture of a whore ” ( ll.

Rackin cites the same quote, " Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I ’ th ’ posture of a whore ” to make the argument that here the audience is reminded of the very same treatment Cleopatra is receiving on Shakespeare's stage ( since she is being portrayed by a boy actor ) ( V. ii. 214-217 ).

The boy was brought up to believe that he was Adolphe Bizet's child ; only on her deathbed in 1913 did Reiter reveal her son's true paternity.

After landing at the island of Naxos, some of the sailors brought a beautiful sleeping boy on board with them.

The case was brought before Cercyon, who, on recognizing by the dress whose child the boy was, ordered Alope to be imprisoned in order to be put to death, and her child to be exposed again.

Muirne left the boy in the care of Bodhmall and a warrior woman called Liath Luachra, who brought him up in secret in the forest.

That year, the Daily Mail brought up further examples of disconnection, including a 13-year-old boy who disconnected from his father and a woman who said her fiancé was forced to abandon her.

Pecksuot brought with him Wituwamat, a third warrior, an adolescent boy ( Wituwamat's brother ) and several women.

Unwanted attention was brought to the village in 1993 by the slaying of a young boy, Derrick Robie, aged four, by thirteen year old Eric Smith.