Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.

Oldenburg's contributions were soon exhausted and the boys had to turn to a wider circle of the town's learned, such as the pastor, to supplement the simple teaching.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.

The M.E.'s boys had finished their on-the-spot examination and the body had been removed for autopsy.

If that picture gets around and I find out you had anything to do with it, I'm going to send a couple of my boys around to see you ''.

But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.

The boys had a tremendous respect for each other's ability.

In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden and thereafter the boys with the cameras had to unsheathe their 300 mm. lenses and shoot at extreme range.

The little boys shrilled out a Yiddish translation or interpretation of the Five Books of Moses, which they had previously chanted in Hebrew.

A man had to have his release -- at least that's what the boys used to say in high school -- and I wasn't providing it for Johnnie.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

A Queen of Thebes and wife of Amphion, Niobe boasted of her superiority to Leto because while she had fourteen children ( Niobids ), seven boys and seven girls, Leto had only one of each.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

Shōnen-ai originally connoted ephebophilia or pederasty in Japan, but from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, was used to describe a new genre of shōjo manga, primarily by the Year 24 Group, about beautiful boys in love.

" In all these tales ," notes Karl Kerenyi, " the beautiful boys are doubles of Apollon himself.

By the 16th century Persian silk was using smaller patterns, many of which showed relaxed garden scenes of beautiful boys and girls from the same world as those in contemporary album miniatures, and sometimes identifiable scenes from Persian poetry.

Outside Japan, bishōnen is the most well-known of the three terms, and has become a generic term for all beautiful boys and young men.

Bishōnen manga are generally shōjo manga ( girls ' comics ) or yaoi ( girls ' comics focused on homosexual relationships between beautiful boys ), however shōnen manga ( boy's comics ) may use casts of bishōnen characters for crossover appeal to female readers.

Yet all this is the least of it ( 216c )- he is crazy about beautiful boys, following them around in a daze ( 216d ).

Herodotus says that the Persians chose the most handsome boys from each city and castrated them, and chose the most beautiful girls and sent them away to the king's harem, and then burnt the temples of the cities.

Muslim — often Sufi — poets in medieval Arab lands and in Persia wrote odes to the beautiful wine boys who served them in the taverns.

He gathered only the beautiful girls and the handsome boys from all over Armenia, so that the latter get married and settled in the newly establish town.

Ellen is a young, beautiful girl and attracts the attentions of the college boys, especially Edward Walcott, a strapping though immature student, and Fanshawe, a reclusive, meek intellectual.

Another example, is instances where Armand is visiting brothels, and gives a detailed description of the " pleasure " he obtained at the hands of " beautiful boys ".

The song was notable for its homoerotic lyrics such as " stubble on my sticky lips " and " beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor ".

# Midir visits Aengus, but is blinded by a sprig of holly thrown by boys playing the Brug, and after he has been healed by the physician Dian Cecht, he demands compensation from Aengus: among other things, the hand of the most beautiful woman in Ireland.

The boys sing Uma a beautiful lullaby until she falls asleep.

" Whether it is adventure, sport, fashion, travel, music, boys toys, beautiful women, or life's essential how-tos, Ralph provides an environment that is purely Australian.

When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg ( meaning " Land of Eternal Youth " in Irish ), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys.

Her sacrifices are turned into stone statues through looking upon her true form, and are either kept in her onboard private collection, or used to decorate the cities under her command ( she seems to have a preference for young and beautiful boys.

' In Japanese popular culture, gay and bisexual men were often considered bishōnen, which translates as " beautiful boys.

Buffy is a cheerleader, a " beautiful blond " with a feminine first name, and " gets to have sex with boys and still kill the monster ".

He built there a new, beautiful church and founded a boys ' college with funds gathered on a tour through France.

The story takes place in provincial France, where a group of young boys (" mistons " roughly translates " brats ") are infatuated with a beautiful young woman.