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

So, boylike, I resolved, in my great love for Shakoona, to try and kill that bear.

From Winter Adventures of Three Boys by Laughlin, J. E.

Noel, boylike, unmindful of the justice of the little sutler's complaints, was greatly angered at the treachery of his comrade.

From The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam by Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)

Then, boylike, I flipped her heavy braid of hair over her shoulder and shook the wettest bushes till their drops scattered in a shower about her.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill