How To Use Schoolboy In A Sentence

Not convinced by these public schoolboys! Thinking the Unthinkable
The 27-year-old, who is in training for next summer's Olympic Games, began his swimming career at the Longsight baths by competing in galas there as a schoolboy.
The Brits, with their propensity for schoolboy humour and scatology, deal with the subject by uproarious laughter.
Mathieson's legacy to folklore included not only his own extensive oral repertoire of folksong but a manuscript collection of 545 songs written down in 3 huge ledgers as he heard them through the years, beginning as a schoolboy and continuing in the bothies, chaulmers and farm kitchens where he feed as a farm servant. Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
They have a stadium full of passionate, vociferous supporters whose legendary backing often reduced opposition players from star performers to schoolboy trialists.

Euan," I said, foolish as a flattered schoolboy, and as awkward. The Hidden Children
At the bar a leather-clad schoolboy was buying a pint of lager, served in a plastic beaker.
Within seconds we were discussing the next tour with the gleeful enthusiasm of two schoolboys. Times, Sunday Times
Accounts of life there come from a variety of viewpoints - a schoolboy home for the holidays, a man employed on the project, a woman who shared memories of schooldays and of working in the office, and a district nurse.
A group of schoolboys run amok when they are abandoned on a desert island. Times, Sunday Times
For the sake of schoolboy humour, each friend should receive two plums and one courgette. The Sun
His style was a mixture of wit, sharpness and schoolboy sarcasm, with large shots of Wodehouse and Beachcomber.
They remind you of a bunch of schoolboys wandering down a lonely road, kicking a ball along.
He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
'Lord of the Flies' is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
The cast consists of ill-assorted schoolboys and workmen, turned gradually into a competent team.
Schoolboy Will Greer watched in horror as two yobs rode off on his prized BMX bike.
Born in Kiev, he was a schoolboy in the classical gymnasium in Kiev.
More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
The schoolboy racer is planning to set the drag car world alight - at the age of eight.
For every schoolboy, the reredorter will be the star attraction, but for me it's the priory's imposing west front. Times, Sunday Times
With its bad language and schoolboy humour, Alfred Jarry's first and most influential play is the story of Mum and Dad Ubu, two gloriously evil megalomaniacs, who spur each other on to overthrow the regime.
But it is soon clear that the schoolboy can't handle the high-performance car and it careers out of control! The Sun
2 Your starter for 10: A schoolboy play-on-words between Latin and English, what jocular translation is usually given to the phrase semper ubi sub ubi? Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The audience becomes preoccupied with this sort of schoolboy brawl.
The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
The CCF is the successor of the Officers Training Corps, in which the young Terence Troy served as a schoolboy in the late 1930s, before escaping from Jersey in 1940, just before the Occupation, to enlist in the British Army. Archive 2008-09-01
I feel like the naughty schoolboy who's been called to the headmistress's office.
He looked like a schoolboy socialist's dream - the leader of the left whose selfless devotion to democracy exposed his enemies as unprincipled cads.
Before I could protest or even defend myself, she left in search of the overgrown schoolboy.
Two years before, he had begun writing to them, asking for photos, information, anything to sate a schoolboy's appetite for space exploration.
Every football-crazy schoolboy in Europe dreams of one day being involved in the championships.
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When he hooks a ball over square-leg it is with the cheek associated with schoolboys.
If moral rectitude and marital fidelity are requirements of those who play for England one can see a future when a schoolboy team will represent the country. Times, Sunday Times
At first, in spite of his sex, it was hard not to believe that his nest was in the tree; and to satisfy himself, my companion "shinned" it, schoolboy fashion, -- a frightful piece of work, which put me out of breath even to look at it, -- while I surveyed the branches from all sides through an opera-glass. The Foot-path Way
A privileged schoolboy, using his own ties to the Kittur underworld, sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga: Book summary
Only keen students of schoolboy humour should think about attending. Times, Sunday Times
He made a schoolboy error by accepting a lunch invitation from a journalist. Times, Sunday Times
The headmaster's chair and canopy featuring a portrait of the school's founder still dominate the original panelled schoolroom, complete with the carved initials and names of generations of schoolboys.
Choosing where and when to play with ambition, and respecting areas on the field, stages of the game and scorelines at which efficiency is more important than genius is the difference between schoolboy rugby and the league version.
‘Most English public schoolboys these days speak a kind of public school mockney,’ says the author.
No undistinguished schoolboy could hope for more.
Out in all weathers, he combines schoolboy enthusiasm with true insight and in-depth knowledge. The Sun
The former Trowbridge schoolboy and well-known football player died less than a week later on February 8 from a fatal bleed to the brain.
The 30-year-old beauty, whose character has an affair with a schoolboy in the hit popular series - admits she would be interested in bagging herself a toyboy like her racy character..
The school has a rich history of producing members of Britain's judo team another old schoolboy finished fourth at this year's Olympics in Athens.
Holly was right too; he did remind me of an English schoolboy.
There is some basis for the rumour in her defiance of imperial protocol by riding cross-saddle, and a hint of overstimulation in her breathless reports of frantic gallops, but Catherine's nymphomania is a schoolboy legend.
He was a bit of a porcupine to the last, still shedding darts; or rather he was to the end a bit of a schoolboy, and must still throw stones, but the essential toleration that underlay his disputatiousness, and the kindness that made of him a tender sicknurse and a generous helper, shone more conspicuously through. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Bob is a fine type of schoolboy.
For sure, however, every schoolboy (of my generation anyway) knows when at teatime on 16 September the final score – Devon 4 New Zealand 55 – was received by the London sports news agency, the unbelieving subeditor confidently presumed a transmission error and reversed the result to Devon 55 New Zealand 4. How the original All Blacks went down in the annals of history
Between him and Millikin, his brother-in-law, there was not much sympathy: for he pronounced Mr. Milliken to be what is called a muff; and had never been familiar with his elder sister Lavinia, of whose poems he had a mean opinion, and who used to tease and worry him by teaching him French, and telling tales of him to his mamma, when he was a schoolboy home for the holidays. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
When he was a schoolboy at an insufferable snob establishment on the south coast of England, George Orwell developed a strong aversion to all things Scottish.
Following the establishment of compulsory elementary education in 1872, a growing number of children attended classes, but schoolgirls remained fewer in number than schoolboys.
It is a scenario they played out in their schoolboy games of rugby league in their back garden. The Sun
Us littery men I take to be like a pack of schoolboys — childish, greedy, envius, holding by our friends, and always ready to fight. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
But by criminalising the taking of any bird's egg, our legislators inadvertently cut off one route in which many of today's older naturalists learned their trade, the schoolboy pastime of "egging". Enjoying the natural world
A schoolboy was pulled up,because he rode his bike too fast in the crowded street.
It does not look out of place: the dark sleeve design features spooky silhouettes instead of the bespectacled schoolboy who grins from covers in Britain.
All very funny for the overgrown schoolboys responsible. The Sun
As a matter of fact, his screw-ups would make ours look like schoolboy pranks.
He just grins like a mischievous schoolboy. Times, Sunday Times
It describes a snowy landscape dotted with figures, snowsuited schoolboys scattered around a bus. SFGate: Top News Stories
It was a rather cramped affair, too, since a horde of schoolboy cricketers had found their way in. Times, Sunday Times
Three overgrown schoolboys doing wild things and providing hilarious entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
When he was a schoolboy in Glasgow his father would take him to matches and tease Alex for being a jinx when Rangers lost.
There followed some schoolboy pranks up and down the corridors and, to cut a long story short, I ended up being locked out starkers.
It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits.
The ball the schoolboys originally swatted was a globe of vulcanized India rubber pierced with a hole.
In recounting his teenage travails as a Boston schoolboy growing up with a "dollop" of Catholic guilt and a full spectrum of FM stations, Sheffield navigates Reaganomics, Boy George, and Rambo with wit, self-deprecation, and not an ounce of trepidation. Kristi York Wooten: A Girl Talks to Rob Sheffield about Duran Duran (and His New Book)
She received many floral tributes plus a more unusual gift - a tube of pastilles from a five-year-old York schoolboy.
Famously, Forster accused the educational systems of the time of retarding the emotional development of schoolboys.
As a schoolboy I once scattered a little on my desktop, a fly landed on a speck and blew itself to smithereens. Times, Sunday Times
A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000 - volt electric shock.
He had me spluttering with laughter all the way with his schoolboy comedy but left our German guest convinced that he was possibly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever his successes with the fictional Tom Brown, Scud East and generations of real English schoolboys who followed them, Thomas Arnold thought he had failed with Flashman who lived unregenerate to the last.
I first met him in 1958 as a schoolboy at a simultaneous display he gave. Times, Sunday Times
Two years or so ago he was a gangling schoolboy, but we have worked hard and he has worked hard.
TWO schoolboys were questioned by police for sledging down a hill. The Sun
The vivacious schoolboy suffered from serious reflux as a baby that damaged his vocal cords.
Yet he comes across like a guilty schoolboy fearing a wigging from the headmaster. The Sun
More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
Schoolboys cannot understand that this shrinking from danger (I speak of palpable danger), which they call cowardice, nearly always emanates from a superior intellect. The Channings
Scotland, as every schoolboy knows, provided the shock troops of the British empire.
Tonight, groups of cherubic-faced public schoolboys are bopping about. Times, Sunday Times
They're acting like a couple of schoolboys caught playing tricks on the teacher.
The schoolboy was diagnosed with narcolepsy a year ago. The Sun
Last year, he even collaborated on an operetta like – as Tucker would have put it – a mimsy, bleating public schoolboy who lives with cats and an Aga. Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition'
Heavy metal shutters which crushed a schoolboy to death as he played a daredevil game were branded a death trap by his mother at an inquest.
To a schoolboy like myself at the time, they were a sudden flash of lightning that lit a dark landscape.
However, an unlucky schoolboy aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise, it came with so much violence, that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpion: but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten, and turned out of the room. Gulliver's Travels
The schoolboy way they defended corners certainly left them with no excuses as they face a relegation dogfight. The Sun
Long ago, when he was just a schoolboy, his closest friend had gone by the name St. James.
He had me spluttering with laughter all the way with his schoolboy comedy but left our German guest convinced that he was possibly deranged. Times, Sunday Times
Darby has the wide-eyed, infectious humour of an overgrown schoolboy.
All childish schoolboy humour, no doubt, but we enjoyed it enormously and laughed ourselves silly.
A schoolboy died after being hit in the back by a discus thrown by another pupil during a school sports practice.
His lawyer described the incident as "a schoolboy prank" that got out of hand.
He wanted a chantry founded at the school so that schoolboys could sing masses daily to speed his soul to heaven—a practice that had been outlawed the previous decade, but which under Mary was now legal again. Storyteller
I was a shy schoolboy who was too shy to read in class without his heart thumping so loud that everybody could hear.
When she left we felt like two schoolboys scolded. Times, Sunday Times
But these schoolboy verses, remarkable as they are, show little indication of the extraordinary style of 18 Poems.
After all these years I still feel like a schoolboy when I hold your hand.
Sandy was once more demonstrating his inefficiency as a cook, and when he remembered that Sandy's name was printed smudgily upon that page of his life which he had lately turned down as a blotted, unlearned lesson is pushed behind an unwilling schoolboy, he began to consider seriously his next step. The Uphill Climb
They are inhabited by overgrown schoolboys still playing with their toys, needy women who fear reality, and those who run a mile from anyone with a problem. Times, Sunday Times
These strike me as slightly schoolboyish--"Well, you say yes, but your friends say no, nyah, nyah"--perhaps reflecting the growing desperation of a government increasingly anxious to extricate itself from what is, in fact, clear involvement in a war crime. Harper's last stand
In union they changed the rules, trying to get referees particularly at schoolboy level to make the scrum safer; is there any evidence of that preventing injuries?
And Hilary had dash, and style, and good looks - all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero.
So is it worth looking beyond the schoolboy humour of its name? Times, Sunday Times
This looks like the perfect refreshing summer pasta dinner; but I have to confess, I don't even know what a pea shoot is and would have thought it was some kind of schoolboy weapon until now. Gemelli with Shrimp and 3 Peas
A 15-year-old schoolboy has helped change the way science views the way galaxies are formed. Times, Sunday Times
The process of his transformation from English public schoolboy to American citizen is all but complete.
No more did wine wannabes have to resurrect their schoolboy French, or brave the obscurities of the appellation system to order a bottle of plonk.
Anyway I digress, that is alleged schoolboy nazi salutes under the bridge. In Vino Veritas Round Up: Lib Dem Pisshead Squeals
One of the books, Henry's schoolboy text of Cicero's writings, has an inscription by the young royal -- "Thys boke is myne Prince Henry. Backstage: 'Burn Your Bookes' at Taffety Punk, Folger's 2010-2011 season
Jack progresses from schoolboy actor to movie star.
He then goes on to say that he has kicked up "an awful shindy with the Athenaeum Club," about something, just as if he had not been kicking up awful shindies with all sorts of people ever since his schoolboy days at Tours. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose. Heartbreak by Craig Raine
He made a schoolboy error by accepting a lunch invitation from a journalist. Times, Sunday Times
You voted local option in, and now you've thirty-two unlicensed and unregulated doggeries selling rot-gut to schoolboys and contributing not one cent to the public revenues. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
As a former Catholic schoolboy from the Bronx, surely he knows that falsehoods can trip you up.
The same schoolboy would put to silence the pompous declaimer A Philosophical Dictionary
However, an unlucky schoolboy aimed a hazel-nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpion: but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten and turned out of the room .... The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
When he extended his hand for me to use as leverage I got the slight impression that yes, he did have some form of schoolboy crush on me.
A couple of schoolboys pass off a forged 500-franc note at a photography shop.
Skolars punished the schoolboy error with Obi Ijeoma driving over for a try.
Walker was an experimentalist and public lecturer on scientific subjects, who taught Shelley as a schoolboy. Index of People
The lunch was copious, and consisted, I remember, of all such dishes as are generally considered mischievous and too good for the schoolboy digestion -- lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs and numberless delicious flavours; besides sauces, kickshaws, creams, and sweetmeats. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Where can you meet the sanctimonious priest who knows more than he's letting on, the drunken father making a toe-curling speech at his daughter's wedding, or the schoolboy with unspeakable personal habits?
A schoolboy at the back of the room piped up with a remark that made the audience laugh.
A 16-year-old British schoolboy has been arrested over his alleged involvement in a cyber attack which is said to have affected the internet globally. Times, Sunday Times
Detectives investigating the shooting of a Yorkshire schoolboy aged 12 in an area popular with night-time hunters known as ‘lampers’ have arrested and bailed four men.
There's punch ups everywhere as the country's titled elite and public schoolboys take on the invading punks, anarchists and ne'er-do-wells in a battle for dominance.
The literary form, the clerihew, was invented by a schoolboy, all about Sir Humphrey Davy who lived with the odium of having discovered sodium.
Provide a vibrant economy that generates jobs, a good transport system, a good health system, a well maintained housing stock, that doesn't stealth tax earning people to death - that is the message that the leader of the Conservatives should be shouting from roof tops, not the silly pig-ignorant public schoolboy rich kid twit 'fixes'. Archive 2008-01-01
We are on the lovers' side, and yet as Gaveston schemes betrayal from the word go, and as Spencer comes tumbling after him in Edward's affections, we sense more schoolboy crush than heartfelt passion.
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Song, it's about a ragtag gang of ne'er-do-well schoolboys who gain self-respect under the wing of a kindly choirmaster.
There's punch ups everywhere as the country's titled elite and public schoolboys take on the invading punks, anarchists and ne'er-do-wells in a battle for dominance.
It goes back to the 05 Ashes I think; his fresh-faced schoolboy appearance and demeanour, skittishly, coltishly hopping around the crease in defence, against Warne in particular. The Guardian World News
A Redhill schoolboy won a national prize for an outstanding performance in his Spanish GCSE this year.
Since every schoolboy since Radcliffe-Brown knows the importance of the avunculate in African society, I simply counted my blessings, figuring that I must actually be ‘doing’ anthropology.
They allege that he was undone by a schoolboy error. Times, Sunday Times
When you are a 15-year-old schoolboy, there is something to be said for dreaming up ridiculously tasteless lyrics that will annoy your teachers. Times, Sunday Times
As a schoolboy I remember the pride with which I hailed Robin Hood, Robert Bruce, and Robert le Diable as my name - fellows; and the feeling of sore disappointment that fell on my heart when I found a freebooter or a general who did not share with me a single one of my numerous praenomina. Lay Morals
He looked more like an overgrown schoolboy who had lost his satchel. Times, Sunday Times
That isn't an articulation of an argument, it's an inerudite schoolboy's idle doodle. I don't know how even to articulate an argument that it's constitutional to give a vote to a D.C. representative in the House.
He was in shorts, like one of the errant schoolboys he used to chastise, clutching a sheaf of papers, or hastily-composed homework, shaking his general defiance.
He has also represented the Irish schoolboys teams in recent internationals against England.
Although it won't be the last time he tours in Ireland, don't miss this extra chance to check out his hilarious, acutely observed anecdotes and cheeky schoolboy humour.
FIVE schoolboys rescued a walker and his pet dog from a narrow ledge on a cliff by pulling them up on abseiling ropes. The Sun
I felt like a gluttonous schoolboy, who had overdosed on candyfloss - that is to say, absolutely sick!
The first half ended with the skit entitled I didn't do it, in which Joseph plays a schoolboy arrested by the police for obscene language while working in the school garden with hoes, forks and agricultural tools.
At 41 years old, Mr. Refn has a schoolboyish air, neatly dressed in a white shirt, khakis and black glasses. Refn Revs Into High Gear With 'Drive'
I first met him in 1958 as a schoolboy at a simultaneous display he gave. Times, Sunday Times
There is no doubt that behind Goodwin's schoolboy looks lurks a toughie.
The armed and angry schoolboys exacted their vengeance upon my American cliché inside a normal suburban high school.
Not to be confused with the schoolboy's desire to have the body fully exposed, eroticism is thus transformed from a problem of knowledge and possession — of knowing/seeing/having the body of the beloved — into a problem of imagination and relinquishment — of seeing what is to be seen and imagining what is not and letting go of the illusion of mastery. How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision
The bullied schoolboy who clung to his mother's apron strings had done well for himself. Times, Sunday Times
Pushing his way hurriedly through the surging throngs, he was amused to hear how the by-election was sharpening schoolboy wit. POLITICAL SUICIDE
He pauses, then smiles like a mischievous schoolboy again. Times, Sunday Times
FIVE schoolboys rescued a walker and his pet dog from a narrow ledge on a cliff by pulling them up on abseiling ropes. The Sun
He introduced Mr Holt to bee-keeping, which had been a schoolboy hobby of his, and at Mr Holt's suggestion he began his own business of keeping laying poultry and selling eggs.
The ball the schoolboys originally swatted was a globe of vulcanized India rubber pierced with a hole.
When she left we felt like two schoolboys scolded. Times, Sunday Times
Three overgrown schoolboys doing wild things and providing hilarious entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
But there was nothing to dull the spirits of the water-carriers, and they romped and skylarked like a party of schoolboys. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
When former St Peter's schoolboy, James Dougherty, led a lone break-out he was flattened by an excellent Heppleston tackle.
I was actually joking about bastardise being rude, but glad to see schoolboy humour isn't wasted on schoolboys. Everyone's Running Scared of Gordon
By contrast, the judges and commissioners now being appointed to police MPs are empowered to exercise unquestioned authority from the moral high ground, like a headmaster disciplining squabbling schoolboys.
But the all-out award for nauseating singing has to go to the demonic brats who attend England Schoolboy matches.
As a schoolboy in Purley he dreamt of a career in journalism as a tribute to his hero Ernest Hemingway.
They could scarcely have realised it at the time, but the 12-year-old schoolboy and his father were treading the same path as hunters armed with lethal firearms.
It took a while to get the measure of the multiple perspectives in Random, an adaptation of Debbie Tucker Green's one-woman stage play about a black schoolboy stabbed to death in the street. Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour – review
With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to.
Clinching the final question in the quiz that once again held a packed auditorium to rapt attention, the schoolboys from Delhi cycled away with their hoard of prizes.
It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all. Chapter 13
Vice-President Dan Quayle famously advised a young schoolboy to add the letter "e" to the end of the word "potato" during a spelling exercise. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
They resented being told by a privileged public schoolboy that they couldn't have more of the schools that had done so much for them. The Sun
But even more than the set (and the costumes! the mother's exquisite summer-white suits, decollete and sleek; the boys 'polished schoolboy shoes), there is the acting. Karin Badt: Great Fun at the Berlinale: My One and Only
We might have talked about his fascinating journey from schoolboy to senior ashramite. Times, Sunday Times
A mum today launched a campaign to hammer home the dangers of binge drinking after her schoolboy son nearly died following a boozy night out.
They were no older than she was and reminded her of two errant schoolboys.
A schoolboy was today behind bars for subjecting a family to a campaign of terror and intimidation.
Just listen to the evidence of Peter Allan: in 1942 he was a 20-year-old Scottish subaltern with the face of a faun and the build of a schoolboy scrum-half.
Orphaned Eton schoolboy James Bond trains for his later death-defying escapes by climbing school roofs and shinning down drainpipes as well as seeing off school bullies, whose character traits resemble his later opponents. Recommended reads: ages 8–10
British schoolboys sometimes wear caps, ie as part of their school uniform.
Growing up in Lancaster County, Kenneff was considered a fine schoolboy, a high achiever.
The schoolboys of classical Athens memorized the Homeric passages that taught the classical virtues.
He felt like a schoolboy on a dare, though he admitted he would have been much more afraid had he been a schoolboy at that time.
All very funny for the overgrown schoolboys responsible. The Sun
Who like a mother, as he grows to years of sense and observation, and the curiosity is kindled, which is only a cry for light and teaching, can so answer the cry and so teach as to make the mysteries of life and truth to be for ever associated for him with all the sacred associations of home and his own mother, and not with the talk of the groom or the dirty-minded schoolboy? The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
How Roberts, a prodigiously gifted schoolboy, ended up pursuing a life of crime is a book in itself.
In parliament he resembles an overgrown schoolboy, chafing at his collar and tie.
With circuitry built on to a breadboard, it took the two schoolboys two months and four prototype circuit boards to overcome the basic practical problems of the design.
Two generations back they still stood dark and empty; people avoided them as they passed by; the boldest schoolboy only shouted through the key-hole and made off; for within, it was supposed, the plague lay ambushed like a basilisk, ready to flow forth and spread blain and pustule through the city. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
A schoolboy told yesterday how a thug headbutted him and tried to gouge out his eyes after he refused to hand over his mobile phone.
We're talking about the likes of overgrown public schoolboy Will Smith the one out of The Thick Of It, not the one from Men In Black; cricket enthusiast and star of BBC2's Rev Miles Jupp; and the often unfairly overlooked but sizzlingly entertaining Simon Evans. This week's new comedy
They remind you of a bunch of schoolboys wandering down a lonely road, kicking a ball along.

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