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

Villiers, boylike, tried to ride his pony up the steep bank of a nullah.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

With the passing of the years, many changes have occurred to sunder the friendships formed during those boylike expeditions.

From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Rees, Alfred Wellesley

"I think I have stopped them," I answered, turning suddenly shy, though, boylike, I had been longing a few minutes before to talk of my victory.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John