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

I was layin' in the hay, an' boylike, the tears was rollin' down.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by Moore, John Trotwood

As he spoke, he gathered Flea's black curls into his fingers and cut them off boylike to her head.

From From the Valley of the Missing by White, Grace Miller

While almost everything was novel and strange to them, they were most interested in the heavy dog-whips, and, boylike, must try their hands in wielding them.

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