boylike

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

They were evidently much interested in its contents, for neither noticed the entrance of Rob Jones, nor were they conscious of his presence until he, boylike, gave them both simultaneously a thump on the back.

From 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story by Copus, John E.

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

Jack, boylike, had forgotten all about Mrs. Parker's news.

From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various