When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.

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.

Cows were kept in backyard barns, boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and evening, were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves, and the thwack of a stick on cowhide.

Both these youths, who greatly admired Henrietta, were somewhat younger than she, as were also the neighboring Friedenwald boys, who were then studying medicine ; ;

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.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

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.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.

Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.

His saloon was a meetin' place for influential Wyoming cattlemen, and one year durin' a severe blizzard, when his herd-owner customers were wearin' long faces, he said, `` Cheer up, boys, whatever happens, the books won't freeze ''.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

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.

that there were three children, two boys and a girl ; ;

Police said the boys are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs.

The boys were tiny.

The boys were already waiting in the corridor outside my office when I got to Fairview.

Many students left and were enrolled in the local common school or a recently re-opened private school for boys.

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.

These were too small, so Elmers School, a neighbouring boys ' boarding school, was acquired for the Commercial and Diplomatic Sections.

The boys were promptly sent to Norwood Schools, another charity institution.

Besides a ' normal ' prison, one may find in Zutphen the JPC de Sprengen penitentiary facility for boys.

Catherine de la Pole was to provide Owen Tudor's children with food, clothing, and lodging, and both boys were allowed servants to wait upon them as the King ’ s half-brothers.

: Old hick ' ry never mind de boys

It contains fragments from his journals: his Soirées de Paris ( a 1979 extract from his erotic diary of life in Paris ); an earlier diary he kept ( his erotic encounters with boys in Morocco ); and Light of the Sud Ouest ( his childhood memories of rural French life ).

* Dutch football club Vitesse has a cover version of " Whatever You Want ", entitled " Daar zijn de boys ", as their home song.

" Once we boys ," he said, " went for to tote some rice, and de nigger-driver, he keep a-callin ' on us ; and I say, ' O, de ole nigger-driver!

He sang at Notre-Dame de Chartres from 9 August 1483 until 1486, and subsequently held posts at St Peter's in Geneva ( until 1492 ) and Laon ( around 1497 ) before becoming choirmaster to the boys at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1498 to 1500, and choirmaster to Alfonso I d ' Este at Ferrara from 1506, replacing the famous composer Jacob Obrecht who had died of the plague there the previous year.

Ruffo is scheduled to lead the new remake of a 1960's soap, Corona de Lagrimas where she play the mother of three boys. In which she portrays a typical mother character that suffers because one of his three sons is not as the other 2.

Devshirme < ref > Ottoman, Greek παιδομάζωμα, Paedomazoma-collection of children ;, Mankahavak < nowiki >'</ nowiki >)-child-gathering ; Romanian: tribut de sânge ; Croatian: Danak u krvi, Slovene: Krvni davek, Bosnian and Serbian: Данак у крви / Danak u krvi, Macedonian: Данок во крв / Danok vo krv, and Bulgarian: Кръвен данък / Kraven Danak-blood tax </ ref > was the practice by which the Ottoman Empire forcibly took boys from Christian families, who were selected by skilled scouts to be trained and enrolled in one of the four imperial institutions: the Palace, the Scribes, the Religious and the Military.

In addition to his role in editing the supplement, Hergé was initially involved in illustrating a story known as L ' extraordinaire aventure de Flup, Nénesse, Puosette et Cochonnet ( The Extraordinary Adventures of Flup, Nénesse, Puosette and Cochonnet ), which had been written by a member of the newspaper's sport staff and which revolved around the adventures of two boys, one of their little sisters, and her inflatable rubber pig.

* Franklyn de Winton Lushington, Sermons to young boys delivered at Elstree school, Publ.

In 1845 he married Modesta Garcia de Cossio with whom he had three boys and three girls.

As a member of the Quebec Independence movement, Chartrand staunchly supported the Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) terrorists saying, " We are going to win because there are more boys ready to shoot Members of Parliament than there are policemen.

Júlio de Araújo, who would later become the president of Sporting and is a keen historian of the founding process of Sporting, noted that " day to day, two trends emerged: that of the boys of Lisbon who claimed the current headquarters and that of the boys of Campo Grande who also laid claim to that spot, as was fair and advisable.

" In a letter to Giovanni de Medici written in 1524 Aretino encloses a satirical poem saying that due to a sudden aberration he has fallen in love with a female cook and temporarily switched from boys to girls ..." ( My Dear Boy )

Getting to know the other boys, he is immediately interested in Lucien Rouvière, of whom he is warned by the unsympathetic Marc de Blajan, who cryptically informs him that some of the students " may seem good, but are in fact not ".

One of them, Father de Trennes, likes to invite boys to join him in his room at night for a few drinks and cigarettes.

In its place, a competition known as the Coupe de l ' Espérance was held which consisted mostly of young boys who had not yet been drafted.

Similar in scope and character to the above are the Pieuses Unions de la Doctribe Chrétienne, founded by the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at Brussels in 1851, for giving religious instruction to boys and girls.

Until the earl's death the boys of the family, and possibly the girls, were given a classical education under the tutelage of a Sicilian Greek, Master " Digines " ( Diogenes ), who may have been Humphrey de Bohun's boyhood tutor.

These are called " Tiros de Guerra ", or " shooting schools ", which are for high school boys in medium-sized interior towns, run by army sergeants.

The new colonists, numbering around 300, included 5 young women to be wed, 10 boys to be trained as translators, as well as 14 Calvinists sent by Calvin, and also Jean de Léry, who would later write an account of the colony.