1003 examples of boyhood in sentences

Every cleric is familiar with the prose translations which aided his boyhood's labours in rendering the poetry of Horace and Euripides into modern speech.

I look among the men here and see among you neighbors whom I have known since boyhood, neighbors who have known me since boyhood, and when I arise here to take a citizen's part, in a meeting called to aid and comfort the cause of the Union, I am permitted to speak only by the personal request of one man.

I look among the men here and see among you neighbors whom I have known since boyhood, neighbors who have known me since boyhood, and when I arise here to take a citizen's part, in a meeting called to aid and comfort the cause of the Union, I am permitted to speak only by the personal request of one man.

The old man could talk forever about the happenings of his boyhood.

Since his boyhood he had not known a home; his resting place had been a shack at a noisy construction camp, a room at a crowded cheap hotel, and a berth beside a steamer's rattling engines.

I looked at him for a moment before that incident of my boyhood came back to me.

Ye who remember your boyhood's home!

Over the bed hung a little picture of his mother, which had been there since his boyhood, and Apollonie had also remembered every other detail.

From boyhood till now I have been continually exercised in similar pursuits; I have been much ruled and done much ruling, from which I have learned on the one hand what kind of orders and of what magnitude must be issued, and on the other how far and in what way one must render obedience.

e) Again, during his boyhood, Cicero saw in a dream Octavius himself fastened to a golden chain and wielding a whip being let down from the sky to the summit of the Capitol.]

This old home of histhe old house seemed full of well-remembered sounds of mouse and cricket and leaf against the roof and soft night wind at the eavessounds that brought his boyhood back, his bare feet on the stairs, his father's aloofness, his mother's love.

For Marcos had, like most Spaniards, grown from boyhood to manhood in the saddle, and Juanita had no fear of horses.

NOTES: In a subsequent stage of boyhood, when these exercises had ceased to be compulsory, like most youthful writers I wrote tragedies; under the inspiration not so much of Shakspeare as of Joanna Baillie, whose Constantine Paleologus in particular appeared to me one of the most glorious of human compositions.

Whether it were sage, statesman, or philanthropist, Ernest received these visitors with the gentle sincerity that had characterized him from boyhood, and spoke freely with them of whatever came uppermost, or lay deepest in his heart or their own.

" "Yes," the old lady replied; "I know he loves mewhen he thinks of old times and his boyhood.

Glück started for the door; since his master's boyhood, he had watched over him, attended himhe could read his countenance like an open book.

There was always the possibility that he might not yet have escaped entirely from the tenderness of boyhood.

It is impossible to reflect on the boyhood of Byron without regret.

Byron himself has said that he passed his boyhood at Marlodge, near Aberdeen; but the statement is not correct; he visited, with his mother, occasionally among their friends, and among other places passed some time at Fetteresso, the seat of his godfather, Colonel Duff.

CHAPTER II Moral Effects of local Scenery; a Peculiarity in TasteEarly Love Impressions and Traditions Before I proceed to the regular narrative of the character and adventures of Lord Byron, it seems necessary to consider the probable effects of his residence, during his boyhood, in Scotland.

I have watched scientific discoveries which were supposed in my boyhood to be contrary to revelation, found out one by one to confirm and explain revelation, as crude and hasty theories were corrected by more abundant facts, and men saw more clearly what both the Bible and Nature really did say; and I can trust that the same process will go on for ever, and that God's earth and God's word will never contradict each other.

"Now!" Appleyard looked half-carelessly across the streetthe next instant he was devoutly thanking his stars that since boyhood he had sedulously trained himself to control his countenance.

"In early boyhood and youth nothing can replace the active sports so much enjoyed at this period; and while no needless restrictions should be placed upon them, consideration should be paid to the amount, and especially to the character, of the games pursued by delicate youth.

All the story of Cartwright's spoiled boyhood and viciously selfish youth were written in his face for the reading of such a man as Sinclair.

The first lectures concerning Edison's boyhood were repeated.

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