How To Use Boyhood In A Sentence

The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.
But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
My boyhood heroes in baseball were Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Willie Mays.
Had Stark known from the beginning that the story of the upstate boyhood was all an invention?

Through his open window came the faint, distant beating of the sea; a bird flew past him, a white flash of light; some one was singing the refrain of a Cornish "chanty" -- the swing of the tune came up to him from the garden, and some of the words beat like little bells upon his brain, calling up endless memories of his boyhood. The Wooden Horse
Recently, however, a group of researchers led by James Cone has challenged this view, arguing that King's theology and oratory sprang mainly from his boyhood training at Ebenezer Church.
Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
His son Brian had, in accordance with an old Irish custom, passed his boyhood in "fosterage" at the court of Callaghan, King of Cashel, in East Munster. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
By contrast, Dickens's second protagonist, Oliver Twist, experiences what seems set to be his climacteric in an intensely fraught boyhood.
I always thought the band showed promise, but this is beyond our boyhood dreams. The Sun
While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority.
Forced move, insisted on joining boyhood heroes. The Sun
For this British astronaut, a boyhood dream comes true today. Times, Sunday Times
They meant the Boer War, recalled by Francis from boyhood, concluded twelve years earlier. DARE CALL IT TREASON
He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays.
Orion's boyhood was spent in that wee little log hamlet of Jamestown up there among the "knobs" -- so called -- of East Tennessee. Chapters from My Autobiography
He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays.
Years later, after spending a night in the house where he was born and raised, he recalled the fondest wish of his boyhood. Archive 2007-05-01
To fits of hypochondria and deep dejection he had, as he himself tells us, been subject from his earliest manhood, and he attributes to overtoil in boyhood this tendency which was probably a part of his natural temperament. Robert Burns
The Lincoln Boyhood Nature Trail is a circular trail, approximately one mile in length, which winds through a natural reforested area.
Nine chapters take the unnamed narrator from boyhood to early middle age. Times, Sunday Times
But by 1972 he had decided to fulfil his boyhood dreams of working overseas. Times, Sunday Times
The rough hand of the New World had been laid upon the Scotsman from his boyhood; but sterling honesty was written in every line of his bitter-seamed face, while a prognathous jaw proclaimed to the onlooker that honesty was the best policy, -- for the onlooker at any rate, should he wish to do business with the owner of the jaw. CHAPTER 6
I have a host of similarly faded and dusty memories of my boyhood that pop up unbidden when I'm in a situation that stimulates my memory.
The sketch involved a grown man going back to his boyhood school. Christianity Today
From early boyhood the men were trained either to work in the quarries or to farm the land.
In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus.
He gives a tough, tight smile as he contemplates his boyhood self, and you can almost hear the schoolchildren of Glasgow breathe a sigh of relief.
Auden, who cannot have read many advice columns, was publicly known as a communicant of the Episcopal Church, a return in his celebrated genius to the church of his English boyhood. Funny as a Crutch
Moreover, Orestes's journey from boyhood to maturity is a metaphor for the transformation of Athenian society itself.
The face was less stern than she remembered it; it had yet some of the bloom and bonniness of his boyhood; renunciation had not written its deeper meaning in lines about the lips and eyes. Mary Gray
I thought of my father's unhappy boyhood.
And for its value and utility it must be plainly avowed that that wisdom which we have derived principally from the Greeks is but like the boyhood of knowledge, and has the characteristic property of boys: it can talk, but it cannot generate, for it is fruitful of controversies but barren of works. The Great Instauration
The 21-year-old has again seen his name touted by presidential hopefuls at boyhood club Barcelona. Football.co.uk news feed
The apprentice is nearer the long long thoughts of boyhood, and his imagination rides cap-a-pie through the chambers of his brain, seeking some knightly quest in honour of that Fair Lady, the last but one of the girl apprentices to the dress-making upstairs. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
Tippy's death was the tragedy of my boyhood.
Obviously he existed only in my mind, a bird plucked from the pages of the bird books of my boyhood. Times, Sunday Times
Success at politics seldom depends entirely upon good intentions and is often torpedoed with a single strike by matters as trivial as boyhood pranks or otherwise pardonable youthful indiscretions.
My sons and their friends spent many boyhood hours in the Copse, which they called "the jungle", in the 1970s.
All my boyhood and youth I thought of the word nobility and what it meant," he wrote. Rocket to the Moon revived
Professionally, if not artistically speaking, Doré passed straight from child to man; in one sense of the word he had no boyhood, the term tyro remained inapplicable. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
Riley's best "holt" as a poet was his memory of his own boyhood and his perception that the child-mind lingers in every adult reader. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters
Bacon's history is open to the world, from his boyhood to his death in old age -- a history consisting of known facts, displayed in minute and multitudinous detail; _facts_, not guesses and conjectures and might-have-beens. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
Surreptitious observation had been a habit of his since boyhood, practiced first on wildlife and then on women.
But nowhere are the vitality and virtues of his boyhood locality celebrated more compellingly than in this novel about a national nightmare.
He has been a Derby County supporter since boyhood.
Nine chapters take the unnamed narrator from boyhood to early middle age. Times, Sunday Times
He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays.
It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood; its poetry is that of a pastoral New England before the motor car.
In the life of the nineteenth-century male, the time of transition from boyhood to manhood was variable in length and loose in the definition of its boundaries. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
He was a real boyhood hero in my early years. The Sun
The apprentice was represented by his master to be a praedial -- the master testified on oath that he was registered as a praedial; but in the course of the examination it was proved that he had always been a mason; that he had labored at that trade from his boyhood, and that he knew 'nothing about the hoe,' having never worked an hour in the field. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
But as the boy reached the age of maturity and the boyhood locks were shorn from his head, she balked at the prospect of yielding the throne to this half-royal heir.
James Bond was a boyhood hero of mine.
Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats.
The 21-year-old has again seen his name touted by presidential hopefuls at boyhood club Tribalfootball.com
I was living at the time in Boston, and had not seen the West for several years, and my return to the scenes of my boyhood started me upon a series of stories delineative of farm and village life as I knew it and had lived it. Other Main-Travelled Roads
As he wrote in after years: "I had acquired from early boyhood the idea that it was expected of me to become a pianist, and every moment spent in 'scribbling' seemed to be stolen from the more legitimate work of piano practice. Edward MacDowell
Boyhood's end is a short but dramatic work full of conflicting emotions and nostalgia for days of yore.
Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
The great world which I knew in my boyhood and early manhood is gone. Page 2
From boyhood the romantic, poetically inclined hero, Denis Stone, found the word carminative particularly evocative. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
From a boyhood steeped in the Anzac tradition, Johnston became a pacifist.
From boyhood, he learned to keep his feelings to himself, repressing memories of his father and of the emotional impact of early orphanhood.
She found him touching in his ignorance of everything-partying, love, money-felt worldly and desperately caring for this moment of boyhood among his ways imperialized and set (he was 33), his pre-Austerity, in which Scorpia figured as his Last Fling-though herself too young to know that, to know, like Pirate, what the lyrics to "Dancing in the Dark" are really about .... Gravity's Rainbow
As he wrote in after years: “I had acquired from early boyhood the idea that it was expected of me to become a pianist, and every moment spent in 'scribbling' seemed to be stolen from the more legitimate work of piano practice.” Edward MacDowell
That phrase, learned in boyhood from my Marryatt and Cooper, recrudesced in my brain. CHAPTER XLII
No more challenges in boyhood, no more hurdles to leap on the way to manhood.
He had eaten the young of the fritillary a thousand times during his boyhood; they tasted delicious, juicy and sweet, just as they should. THE BROKEN GOD
I spent my boyhood summers on my grandfather's farm in Ness City, Kansas.
Hardened and embittered by the selfish treasons that had beset his early boyhood, and which had forced him into manhood before his time, he came to England as one called thither by the late king's designation, and, therefore, the lawful heir. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood.
You sensed the only downside to those countless starring roles for his boyhood club was the headlines. The Sun
Visiting Disneyland has fulfilled a boyhood dream .
In response to a vague stirring of something within him -- a thing which might have been the primitive underman yawning and stretching to its awakening -- he had been trying in the window-facing intervals to reconstruct the passing panorama of mountain and plain upon the recollections of his boyhood. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
His intellectual precocity, and his dedication to work, which remained compulsive from boyhood onwards, are characteristic.
The Lincoln Boyhood Nature Trail is a circular trail, approximately one mile in length, which winds through a natural reforested area.
This brings me to consider what I call my boyhood days. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
It was his boyhood ambition/dream to become a film director.
Ah, the golden, sun-dappled world of boyhood in our lost Edwardian age!
It is the stuff of boyhood dreams for any young Australian cricketer. Times, Sunday Times
The man rises from his state of prostrate surrender to join himself to the force of the wind," writes Irene H. Chayes, "master it — fulfilling his [Shelley's] boyhood ambition to 'outstrip' it (ll. 50-51) — and turn it into an instrument of his own. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
His is not a story of hothousing a talent through academies from early boyhood.
The boyhood home of President Woodrow Wilson in Augusta was one of the excellence-in-restoration award winners from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.
If there was anything he harboured a passion for, it was that universal boyhood dream of becoming a footballer.
It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood.
This boyhood mistake has forced him to stand down, as the law bars any candidate convicted of an imprisonable offence. Times, Sunday Times
These were, in general, ancient inhabitants of that region; born, and bred there from boyhood. who had long since become wheezy and asthmatical, and short of breath, except in the article of story – telling; in which respect they were still marvellously long – winded. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
He is the son of North Sea sailors (the flat openness of the Dutch polders is beautifully evoked in a flashback to Leon's boyhood) and it turns out he's been in love most of his life.
The pair were boyhood friends who grew up in Sydney. Times, Sunday Times
Here is a lesson which I brought along with me in boyhood from the Latin School, and which ranks with the best of Roman anecdotes. The Conduct of Life (1860)
What recollections of boyhood and innocence might have been flitting across his brain? Vanity Fair
Thus I promised myself, as I journied towards my destination with roused and ardent expectation: expectation of the fulfilment of all that in boyhood we promise ourselves of power and enjoyment in maturity. I.3
Kirby came of age in the 1930s, was toughened by his Depression boyhood and perhaps scarred by his frontline experiences in World War Two.
Obviously he existed only in my mind, a bird plucked from the pages of the bird books of my boyhood. Times, Sunday Times
What recollections of boyhood and innocence might have been flitting across his brain? Vanity Fair
The scene woke memories of my boyhood.
The negative images against which manhood has been constructed, such as womanhood, boyhood, dependency, slavery, and racial and class difference, will be examined.
He had taken to life of sannyasin at this tender age of boyhood.
He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Les Miserables
My boyhood dream was to be a tail gunner in the Royal Air Force.
The colonel-to-be and his boyhood chums were among the school's fans.
He readily admits that it is a dream job for someone who has been passionate about cars since boyhood.
That in boyhood, at Odds or Evens, I could never once guess the right way; that my bread and butter always fell on the buttered side; of all these sorrows I will not speak; but is it not a frightful destiny, that now, when, in spite of Satan, I have become a student, I must still be a jolthead as before? The Big Apple
It brings boyhood dreams of wonders of the Arabian Nights. Times, Sunday Times
A boyhood spent on the cliffs at Kirkcaple had made me a bold cragsman, and the porphyry of the Rooirand clearly gave excellent holds. Prester John
Or Richard Garey, a 30-year Twain impersonator, who at the moment is leaning on the white picket fence outside the author's boyhood home, his ice cream suit impeccable, his bushy white hair stiff with hairspray. Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again
Spring, in the character of "ethereal mildness," was unquestionably a female; but here she is "unsexed from the crown to the toe," and changed into an awkward hobbletehoy, who, having passed his boyhood in the country, is a booby who blushes black at the gaze of his own brother, and if brought into the company of the lasses, would not fail to faint away in a fit, nor revive till his face felt a pitcherful of cold water. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Had he, who in boyhood had known no law, who in manhood had exalted himself above law, in truth found the shining ways? BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
Success at politics seldom depends entirely upon good intentions and is often torpedoed with a single strike by matters as trivial as boyhood pranks or otherwise pardonable youthful indiscretions.
For instance, there is no doubt whatever that my mother and I were treed by the wild pigs and fled and fell in the days before I made the acquaintance of Lop-Ear, who became what I may call my boyhood chum. CHAPTER IV
Finally, in a "postlude" Sachs recalls his own boyhood discovery -- in Cleveland -- of Beethoven and touches on the composer's importance to him. 'The Ninth: Beethoven and the World of 1824,' by Harvey Sachs
Now a professor of history at Yale University, and the author of numerous works of religious history, he recently wrote a memoir about his boyhood.
He has created a lavishly stunning, sweeping story of the little wooden doll's many adventures on the road to boyhood.
There, around a campfire, his boyhood games of piracy and Robin Hood met the tall tale and the demotic idiom.
I was never a perfect specimen of boyhood and always got chosen last or next to last.
Yet he is still willing to take a huge cut to stay at his boyhood club - as long as Wasps are prepared to increase their offer. The Sun
He has completed a book of boyhood memoirs and a handbook on creative writing, both unpublished.
James Bond was a boyhood hero of mine.
For Galen Cook, his lifelong interest in the mysterious skyjacker began on his boyhood newspaper route in Alaska.
It was his boyhood ambition/dream to become a film director.
Farrow, who said he realized he was gay in boyhood, never revealed his sexual orientation to anyone. Fresno priest comes out as gay, opposes Prop. 8
Shpack is herein classed Russian for lack of a more adequate term; for Shpack's father, a Slavonic convict from the Lower Provinces, had escaped from the quicksilver mines into Northern Siberia, where he knew Zimba, who was a woman of the Deer People and who became the mother of Shpack, who became the grandfather of Jees Uck. Now had not Shpack been captured in his boyhood by the Sea People, who fringe the rim of the Arctic Sea with their misery, he would not have become the grandfather of Jees Uck and there would be no story at all. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
He completely lacked the gift of making friends, from boyhood almost to middle age. Times, Sunday Times
He has been a Derby County supporter since boyhood.
It was there, in the 1940s, that the young Robert Smithson would first have seen them, on one of his many boyhood visits to what was (and would continue to be) his favorite museum.
It's only a matter of time before he is forced to leave his boyhood club and has the football world at his feet.
But, five months on, he is set to fulfil his boyhood dream. The Sun
Of this locality, now considerably changed in its character, but still endeared to him by the associations of his boyhood, he has given a graphic description in a poem, in which he records some of the cherished recollections of the days when amid its "howffs," and "laigh" half-doored shops he "gat schulin 'and sport. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh. Little Dorrit
Gran grew up down the road from him, but they weren't boyhood friends. Times, Sunday Times
This was a development of the mysterious attraction which weak light appearing in darkness had had for him since his boyhood, when he had, with his school fellows, warmed fluorine crystals to make them luminescent; and now he took up, with the astronomer W. Wolf, the study of the luminosity of pyrogallic acid when it is mixed with alkali and bisulphite for developing photographs. Philipp Lenard - Biography
That turned out to be his parting gift to his boyhood club as he heads for the Theatre of Dreams in great shape. The Sun
For them, Star Wars was the ultimate personification of their boyhood dreams and wishes.
He laughs about his earthquake phobia, turns glum when reflecting on a domineering father and gives weight to theories of his eternal boyhood in enthusiastic chatter about toys and theme parks. Archive: Michael in the mirror
So to get there in an Ashes Test is a boyhood dream. The Sun
They meant the Boer War, recalled by Francis from boyhood, concluded twelve years earlier. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Obviously he existed only in my mind, a bird plucked from the pages of the bird books of my boyhood. Times, Sunday Times
To come through the ranks and play for your boyhood club is a dream come true. The Sun
Nine chapters take the unnamed narrator from boyhood to early middle age. Times, Sunday Times
Watching Court's smooth unhurrying movements, the splayed limbs leechlike on the rock face, he found himself reliving some of the climbs of his boyhood and making the ascent with them, mentally documenting each stage. She Closed Her Eyes
Or should we argue the opposite, that the way he used the butterfly net of his boyhood has no bearing on the way he flourished his pen? The Times Literary Supplement
It is intended primarily for boys, but, in the present unsatisfactory state of English education, we entertain a hope that it may possibly be found not unfit for some who have passed the age of boyhood; and in this hope we have ventured to give it the title of _English Lessons for English People_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
During the writing process, however, he decided that Tom shouldn't grow up in the book, and focused specifically on Tom's boyhood.
And as phases of life, manhood and boyhood had little relation to each other. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
The transition from boyhood to manhood can be a confusing period.
His skills on his high school debate team, in fact, lifted him out of boyhood poverty in Seattle, winning him a scholarship to Harvard.
But these were not the only changes that signified the end of boyhood. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
He writes that his first experience of the police came through his unruly boyhood and that he is the father of an illegitimate child, born while he was a military police officer in South Korea.
Still, for adventuresome lads like Jack, the exotic destination was a boyhood dream come true, and Patagonia's star-filled sky a path to independence from the strictures of their homelands.
He had a fund of stories about his boyhood.
Book auctions bring back many memories from my boyhood days.
Forced move, insisted on joining boyhood heroes. The Sun
This event triggers flashbacks of his boyhood in Jerusalem during 1938, when British troopers searched his family home.
The narrative deals with events of boyhood, then courting, matchmaking, and marriage, and afterwards the unremitting harshness of life.
Surreptitious observation had been a habit of his since boyhood, practiced first on wildlife and then on women.
His hands and feet seemed to have reverted to their hobbledehoy clumsiness of some years back, in his pimply boyhood, but for all that, the look she gave him in departing made him feel tall, confident and gainly. The Leper of Saint Giles
It's a quirky, wristy, vertical and extremely violent motion that he hasn't fiddled with much since he figured out how to make whiffle balls curve in both directions around his boyhood home in rural Florida. Top Pros Who've Never Had a Lesson
I have confessed myself a temerarious theologian, and in that passage from boyhood to manhood I ranged widely in my search for some permanently satisfying Truth.
In your job do you get a chance to meet a boyhood hero? The Sun
Over a burger the size of Birmingham we get talking to local resident, Gary Fish, who recalls his boyhood at The Sport emptying the cowboy's spittoons for a nickel.
It was these attitudes about the rough, impulsive nature of boyhood that led people to contrast it with the reason and restraint of manhood. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
From a boyhood spent hunting and climbing in southern Idaho, Petzoldt grew into a bearish man with enormous flat feet and eyebrows of legendary bushiness.
From a boyhood spent hunting and climbing in southern Idaho, Petzoldt grew into a bearish man with enormous flat feet and eyebrows of legendary bushiness.
The memories of his early youth and the bright days of his boyhood came back to him as the only antidote to the distress and disappointments of his age, and he strove to forget everything in "bygones" -- "Præterita. The Life of John Ruskin
Historians agree Alexander and his beloved Haphaestion were more than battle mates and boyhood chums.
Rochester, where I hoped to fulfill my plan, formulated in boyhood from my readings and teachings of my aunt and Youden, of studying mathematics, physics, and chemistry in preparation for a career in medical research. D. Carleton Gajdusek - Autobiography
Young males yearn to leave boyhood behind and to become men.
Less surprisingly, he says, ‘I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin’, a hangover of his boyhood love of horror comics and movies.
The transition from boyhood to manhood can be a confusing period.
When people speak of the "hickory" without qualification, they are apt to have in mind some one kind of hickory which belonged to their boyhood environment. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
That phrase, learned in boyhood from my Marryatt and Cooper, recrudesced in my brain. CHAPTER XLII
Parthenopaeus, a youth of peerless beauty; from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood. The Suppliants
The Arsenal star plays for the first time tonight against the team that fuelled his boyhood footballing dreams. The Sun
Forced move, insisted on joining boyhood heroes. The Sun
It was an opportunity to fulfil a boyhood fantasy to mix it with swashbucklers.
When he was younger a series of events starting with the death of his parents atop the Isle of Skye mountains, saw them grow apart and his boyhood idolisation of his Grandfather turn to feelings of betrayal and bitterness. Filmstalker Review: Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle
Billy starts the tale of his boyhood days.
He inspires love and loyalty, makes a strategic marriage but never loses sight of his boyhood love Hephaistion and never loses his eye for a pretty boy.
It had been a favourite resort of Adrian; it was secluded; and he often said that in boyhood, his happiest hours were spent here; having escaped the stately bondage of his mother, he sat on the rough hewn steps that led to the spring, now reading a favourite book, now musing, with speculation beyond his years, on the still unravelled skein of morals or metaphysics. II.9
He was a boyhood hero to many current stars, some of whom have already generously chipped in. The Sun
But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
From the sandlots to the shrine: for John and the rest of the Class of 2002, the call to the Hall is the culmination of boyhood dreams - Hall of Fame Induction Preview
It was chance, acting through the impulses of the War Office, which caused little Laurence to see the light on Irish soil; but though he was born in the melodiously named Valley of Honey, there was little of honeyed sweetness, and much bitterness as of gall and coloquintida, in his early boyhood. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
Born in Ohio, he had an uneven boyhood, curiously dyslexic yet smart, sissyish in team sports but very competent athletically in individual competition.
Surreptitious observation had been a habit of his since boyhood, practiced first on wildlife and then on women.
Like "Penrod" and "Seventeen," this book contains some remarkable phases of real boyhood and some of the best stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written. The Shield of Silence
But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
The opportunity to take an official tour of the ground graced by his boyhood heroes was too good to miss. Times, Sunday Times
It is the stuff of boyhood dreams for any young Australian cricketer. Times, Sunday Times
From boyhood, he believed with a ‘tunnel vision’ intensity, that he had the quick-brained capacity to succeed in professional comedy.
Leaving his boyhood club was like closing the last page on a well-thumbed book.
From boyhood, Darwin had been fascinated by the natural world and while an undergraduate he had acquired a small reputation as an amateur scientist.
The person he was most excited to see was Sandy Penk, a cute majorette who had been his boyhood crush. Three Mets Decades, Only Two Days Off
It is dangerous to know too much about one's boyhood sporting heroes. Times, Sunday Times
For this British astronaut, a boyhood dream comes true today. Times, Sunday Times

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