Now from the sunny apple seek The velvet down that spreads his cheek; And there, if art so far can go, The ingenuous blush of boyhood show.
The dream, that wishing boyhood knows, Is but a bright, beguiling spell, That only lives while passion glows.
But the lays of his boyhoodhad stolen to their ear, And they loved what they knew of so humble a name; And they told him, with flattery welcome and dear, That they found in his heart something better than fame.
For many years that boyhood of eager concern in the printed page had seemed to him to belong to somebody else.
A small boy guarded these wares, and Thorpe considered him briefly, with curious recollections of how much of his own boyhood had been spent on that very spot.
One of the very best of the stories of Dickens to show his perfect sympathy with boyhood is the story told by Jemmy Jackman Lirriper about "the boy who went to school in Rutlandshire.
He had especially the power of recognising in the things for which boys are often rebuked the best evidences of their strength, and he could remember his own boyhood so well as to fully sympathize with the boys.
He was the kindest of men," full of sympathy with boyhood and with individual boys.
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.
He had been an expert boatman all his boyhood days.
It caused him to value profitable conversation in boyhood and youth.
The foregoing was one of the incidents of Benjamin's boyhood that decided his future eminent career.
The peculiar genius which he exhibited in hisboyhood gave him his world-wide fame at last.
What, indeed, most of all surprises us, is the courteous, flattering, and even brilliant reception which Pope found from his earliest boyhood amongst the most accomplished men of the world.
Here is my boyhood because the earth is always young and repeats her miracles for the children by my side as it did for me so many many years ago.
Here rises again my boyhood spent in an orchard now passed away, as father and mother have passed, as playmates have fallen one by one, the old place holding only memories.
For this meant the graduation from boyhood into manhood, the winning of a warrior's diploma.
His own boyhood had been task-filled and he saw nothing unnatural in the regular employment of his children.
My father took us all to see and hear this orator hero of his boyhood days in Boston.
The David of my idolatry, the laughing giant of my boyhood world, could be found now, only in the mist which hung above the hills and valleys of Neshonoc.
I link his name with that of the two great men, for I have abundant materials for forming my opinion of him in the shape of three volumes of correspondence, begun in my boyhood and continued for years during my friend's lifetime.
I had seen so much of Aubrey de Vere all through my boyhood that I almost felt as if I knew Tennyson too, so vivid were his accounts of him, and his descriptions of his ways and surroundings.
He had from early boyhood been familiar with the fact that Wolsey and Cromwell in Henry VIII.
His boyhood and school days were spent in Hesse Cassel.
Samuel Fielden was born in Todmorden, Lancashire, England, in 1847, and spent thirteen years of his boyhood working in a cotton mill.
He was filled from boyhood with a passion for finding unknown lands and waters; he was haunted by ideals and visions of noble exploits for the good of mankind.
No one who is familiar with the little red schoolhouse can look at these pictures and read these chapters without having the mind recall the boyhood experiences, and the memory is pretty sure to be a pleasant one.
He was born in 1869 in one of the poorest quarters of Copenhagen, but spent his boyhood in his beloved island Bornholm, in the Baltic, in or near the town, Nexo, from which his final name is derived.
A man who has reached the age at which his boyhood becomes of interest to the world may even have survived many such relations.
Her memory was the only existing record of her brother's boyhood and youth.
His boyhood days came back to him, when he used to crush down the stubble with his bare feet.
And yet it is so offered by the same individual who, though he has survived a boyhood of mosquito bites and school drinking cups, refuses to allow his child to risk what he now knows to be a possible carrier of disease.
Quintius Flamininus,--but who had been carefully educated from their boyhoodin Greek accomplishments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
