He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

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

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

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.

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.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

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.

She had the hips of a boy and a loose-jointed walk that reminded me of a string of beads strolling down the street.

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.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

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.

Altogether he had, since the seizure, the appearance of a boy who overindulged in food and took no exercise.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.

The colored boy had it, and Trig lunged at him with a knife and said, ' Give that to me, you black bastard.

Under the trees, there was a dead redcoat, a young boy with a pasty white skin and a face full of pimples, who had taken a rifle ball directly between the eyes.

From the 1950s on, shōnen manga focused on topics thought to interest the archetypal boy, including subjects like robots, space-travel, and heroic action-adventure.

As a boy Banks enjoyed exploring the Lincolnshire countryside, and developed a keen interest in nature, history and botany.

I'd look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley.

Emerson took a paternal and at times patronizing interest in Thoreau, advising the young man and introducing him to a circle of local writers and thinkers, including Ellery Channing, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his son Julian Hawthorne, who was a boy at the time.

Deighton's interest in spy stories may have been partially inspired by the arrest of Anna Wolkoff, which he witnessed as an 11-year-old boy.

Noah Webster as a boy studied Dilworth's book, and was inspired partly by it to create his own spelling book on completely different principles, using pictures and stories of interest to children.

He seems to have taken an interest in the marriage and career of his stepdaughter and he also took a young slave boy under his wing, as he was childless, who died c. 95.

* Justin Walker as Christian Stovitz: Cher's love interest, a boy whose parents are divorced ; he alternates semesters in Chicago and Beverly Hills ( Cher believes this " is a travesty on the part of the legal profession ").

Bobby is unaware that, as a boy his own age, Adolf Hitler had a related interest as an amateur artist.

Despite Port Vale being Matthews ' favourite team growing up, and despite rumoured interest from Wolverhampton Wanderers, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, and West Bromwich Albion ; Tom Mather convinced his father to allow Matthews to join the Stoke City staff as an office boy on his fifteenth birthday for pay of £ 1 a week.

The lyrics tell a story of the ageless dragon Puff and his playmate Jackie Paper, a little boy who grows up and loses interest in the imaginary adventures of childhood and leaves Puff alone and depressed.

Since the costs of the school surpassed the family's means, the boy was supported by public resources and spent his school years in a dwelling for poor students ; he was given special attention and instruction by the rector of the Gymnasium, Georg Nikolaus Köhler, who sparked his interest in languages, loaned him Greek texts, and devised special exercises in which the boy had to reconstruct intelligible texts from fragments.

Lee Harvey Oswald, at that time a 14-year old disturbed boy living in the Bronx, received one of thse pamphlets, and six years later would tell a reporter in Moscow ( after he had defected to the USSR ) that this marked the beginning of this interest in " socialist literature ," which he then proceeded to seek out and read, soon becoming a self-described lifelong " Marxist.

: Monica Colby's biological son, with Cash Cassidy, a bright young boy with an interest in space technology, who was raised by Cash and his wife, Adrienne.

Fortunately, a well-known orthopedic surgeon took an interest in his case and agreed to treat the boy for free if his parents would allow medical students to observe.

King George's fatherly interest and patronage of the young boy gave rise to rumours, quite unfounded, that he may have been his illegitimate son.

He published Essay on the Education of Youth, in which he wrote that he did not " study the interest of the boy but the embryo Man ".

By the time he was twelve, he was playing so well that one day he was practicing in a cellar when the legendary Henri Vieuxtemps, passing in the street, was so impressed with the sound of his violin that he took an interest in the boy.

As a boy, Nānu would listen to his father with keen interest when he narrated stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the simple folks of his village.

As a boy he took an interest in the Native American artifacts in the surrounding countryside and taught himself how to knap flint ( make arrowheads and such from flint ).

However, the latter does credit Sir Frank with sparking his interest in astronomy ; because they shared the same last name, Sir Frank's achievements were discussed by Freeman Dyson's family when he was a young boy.

As a boy, Dunstable is raised as a Presbyterian, but he also takes an avid interest in Catholic saints.

As a boy, he showed an interest in flight, experimenting with kites and earning the nickname " the flyer ".