boylike

Example Sentences

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His scientific interest in his illness was enormous�even though, boylike, he had a personal pride in the misfortune that had suddenly made him special.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its lure is the image of girls kicking ass, being boylike.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, boylike, I flipped her heavy braid of hair over her shoulder and shook the wettest bushes till their drops scattered in a shower about her.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

To O'mie and myself, however, remained the resolve to drive him from Springvale; for, boylike, we watched him more closely than the men did, and we knew him better.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

But, boylike, we discounted all she said, and felt we wanted some of this world before we knocked at the gates of the next.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin