Do we say boy or buoy

boy 33484 occurrences

As a boy he had never entered the wood so far; for he was under a prohibition, lest he should lose himself in its intricacies, and be benighted there.

He had often heard that it was haunted ground, and that too would, when a boy, have deterred him.

You used to have me behind the bar when I was a boy, with more of an appetite than I have now.

Never fear for me, my boy.

Yes, it'll be here, my boy; don't fret about that.

Edward Irving went to see a dying boy once, and when he entered the room he just put his hand on the sufferer's head, and said, "My boy, God loves you," and went away.

Edward Irving went to see a dying boy once, and when he entered the room he just put his hand on the sufferer's head, and said, "My boy, God loves you," and went away.

And the boy started from his bed, and called out to the people in the house, "God loves me!

It changed that boy.

It was the mother's ambition for her boy in those days that he should become a prophet.

I was not told when I was a boy that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should have everlasting life."

John Bartlow Martin (A); 10Dec71; R518500. <pb id='420.png' /> Boy hunt.

SEE MEDARY, MARGARET P. MEDARY, MARGARET P. Buckeye boy, by Marjorie Medary, pseud.

Some of the best of these have been excellently translated by Mr. Joyce, whose "Celtic Romances" ought to be in the hands of every one, from the boy of twelve upwards, who aspires to know anything of the inner history of Ireland; to understand, that is to say, that curiously recurrent note of poetry and pathos which breaks continually through all the dull hard prose of the surface.

They feel it would be so trying for their "dear boy" to do any kind of manual labor, and it is so bad that his delicate hands should be soiled and hardened by any toil, that they would deny themselves of even the necessaries of life in order their fair-haired boy may be thought such a "nice young man," and so "genteel."

They feel it would be so trying for their "dear boy" to do any kind of manual labor, and it is so bad that his delicate hands should be soiled and hardened by any toil, that they would deny themselves of even the necessaries of life in order their fair-haired boy may be thought such a "nice young man," and so "genteel."

Washington was a farmer's boy; so were Adams, Jefferson, Putnam, Jackson, Webster, Clay, Douglas, Lincoln, and Raymond, of the past; and Grant, Sherman, Trumbull, Emerson, Bryant, Buckingham, and Greeley, of the present; while nine out of every ten of successful lives in any department of labor have come from the fields of country life.

What a pleasure to recognize the point from which Romer-boy had seen his first wild bear!

And Takahashi, who had many times heard my little boy Loren yell that, grinned all over his dusky face.

The boy and girl of the tenement-dwelling classes, especially where the foreign element is strong, do not share their pleasures in the normal, healthy fashion of other young people.

In the same manner the boy does not play with the girl.

Max was seventeen, a selfish, overbearing prig of a boy, fully persuaded of his superiority over his mother and sisters, and entirely willing that the family should toil unceasingly for his advancement.

Every city has its dance hall problem; every small town its girl and boy problem; every country-side its tragedy of the girl who, for relief from monotony, goes to the city and never returns.

In the glare of red fire and flaming torches, to the confused blare of many Salvation Army brass bands, the quavering of hymn tunes, including the classic, "Where Is My Wandering Boy To-night," and the constant explosion of photographers' flashlights, the long procession stumbled and jostled its way through streets that gave back for answer darkness and silence.

The custom is kept up through the benefaction of a certain Alexander Hogg, a native of the parish, who died about 1790 and left a small sum for the maintenance of a midsummer bonfire on the spot, because as a boy he had herded cattle on the hill.

buoy 212 occurrences

It was battered to pieces by gunfire, and a half dozen sailors, picked up clinging to a buoy by a Danish ship, told of its commander and two seamen serving its only remaining gun until the last minute, when the commander's leg was blown off.

Is it not better to let go a petty interest, than to further it by committing so notorious and heinous a sin; to let an ambitious project sink, than to buoy it up by such base means?

It not only rose itself, but helped to buoy up its unfortunate brother.

"Stream the buoy, and let go the anchor!" shouted Captain G.

* 78 es' say buoy' ant in sip' id fe quent' ing scowl' ing

The only other one to notice the affair was Midshipman Willis, who simply states, "dropped from the Buoy and anchored in the Sound.

When on his way to the ship the next morning for the chronometer, King was informed that the Discovery's cutter had been stolen; it had been moored to the anchor buoy.

It would buoy them up with hopes, without a foundation, and as they could not reason on the subject, as more enlightened men would, they might be led to do what they would be punished for, and the owners of them, in their own defence, would be compelled to exercise over them a severity they were not accustomed to.

Great firing at our buoy, supposing him a Spaniard.

Toilers upon the sea, list to the Bell-buoy's ring!

Toilers upon the sea, the Whistling-buoy would speak!

I see upon the sand-dunes the beach-grass sway and swing, I see the whirling sea-birds sweep by on graceful wing, I see the silver breakers leap high on shoal and bar, And hear the bell-buoy tolling his lonely note afar.

"Well, just think of that tight white hammock, the light weight of the shot, and the very hot weatherthink, too, how easily a fishing-cork is balanced in the water by a very small sinker, and lastly how confined air will buoy up anythingand you have the whole secret of his coming back.

The buoy, with its flaming torch, had drifted far to leeward, and the lookout could do no more than follow its fainting light as the dark of the tropics closed in.

The Indian lets go the line, to which a buoy is attached to mark the course the remora has taken, and follows in his canoe until he thinks the game is exhausted; he then draws it gradually in, the remora still adhering to his prey.

Boy meets buoy.

Boy meets buoy.

Few men, and never a woman, could do a fine thing so delicately as he; but of course it included a divergence from the truth, for to Tommy afloat on a generous scheme the truth was a buoy marking sunken rocks.

I will descend to thee, And buoy thee up.

Chance, though she faint now, And sink below our expectations, Is there no hope left strong enough to buoy her? Dem.

"Hardly in the cabun-buoy line I should say.

"Oh, I brought him aboord last night," said Davey; "he wanted to be cabun-buoy.

When the wind dropped, as it did at brief intervals, the sea was heard moaning on the distant beach, strangely mingled with the desolate warning of the bell-buoy as it rocked to the waves.

About the same time, an information, drawn up in form against the admiral, was found concealed in the buoy of one of the ships, which he also transmitted to their majesties.

10 See where the black fishing-boats, each at its buoy, Ride up on the swell with their dare-danger prows, To sight o'er the sea-rim what venture may come!

Do we say   boy   or  buoy