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
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
His imagination, boylike, was aghast at the unknown.
From The Varmint by Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo
Lollie, poking about, came upon a piece of rope, which, boylike, he took outside and wound about his waist.
From Where the Sun Swings North by Willoughby, Barrett
