I will go back to the home where of old in my boyish pride I pierced my father's heart with a murmur of unbelief.
We parted at the main entrance, the prisoner, with head erect and a certain fearless, uncowed look on his boyish face, preceding the deputies down a short flight of stone steps, closely followed by the officer.
Before we had gone a mile into the forest Jim jerked the mare back upon her haunches and, pointing to a great hemlock standing sentinel over us, cried out withboyish enthusiasm: "Take a look at him once.
His tone and smile were so roguishly eager that Patty felt a strong liking for this big, boyish chap.
Patty's glowing cheeks were almost as scarlet as her coat and cap, while Ferris was grinning with boyish enthusiasm.
There was a remembrance of this in his boyish and enthusiastic greeting of Mr. Oakhurst.
We catch a similar glimpse of his ardent, boyish spirit in a letter written from Fort Necessity later.
Over and above the anxieties with which he was ever beset, there shines out clearly the exuberance of boyish zest and valor--soon to be hardened and quenched by innumerable cares and heavy responsibilities.
Edward Arundel retained a good deal of that boyish chivalry which had made him so eager to become the little girl's champion in the days gone by.
Her passionate idolatry of her boyish cousin had been the one solitary affection that had ever held a place in her cold heart.
So, you see, the young man made himself very much at home, in his own innocent, boyish fashion, at Marchmont Towers.
Instantly both the boys lifted their hats in acknowledgment, but Keith exclaimed in boyish impatience, "Oh, pshaw!
On our Way homewards Buckthorne assured me that this Dribble had been the prime wit and great wag of the school in their boyish days, and one of those unlucky urchins denominated bright geniuses.
The stories connected with this wreck made it an object of great awe to my boyish fancy; but in truth the whole neighborhood was full of fable and romance for me, abounding with traditions about pirates, hobgoblins, and buried money.
I really knew not what was to become of me; for I had still the boyish fear of returning home; standing in awe of the stern temper of my father, and dreading the ready arm of the pedagogue.
We hired seats, and set off full of boyish expectation.
In the midst of this perilous strait, and hard by a group of rocks called "the Hen and Chickens," there lay in my boyish days the wreck of a vessel which had been entangled in the whirlpools and stranded during a storm.
I can feel, even at this moment, the thrilling of my boyish bosom, whenever by chance I caught a glimpse of her white frock fluttering among the shrubbery.
Discretion is the better part of valour, and the boyish delegation hastily withdrew.
But when once they were safely out of hearing of the Heer Governor, beyond the Land Gate at the Broad Way, they took breath and indulged in a succession of boyish shouts.
Some one had been seen to enter the office in the twilight who could not be identified with Brown; whom, indeed, even Philip, with his boyish interest in the novelty of the proceedings, vaguely perceived to be another man.
This was the instinctive question that rose in John's mind, and not an amused anticipation of Pippo's original boyish view of the question and the speakers, such as had delighted him on the boy's previous visits to the House.
There was an odd, half-boyish astonishment in him that the accumulated warnings of these recent days had not shown him the truth before.
Yet the boyish utterance was honest; she did not think it foolish apparently.
He felt her hand creep in and rest upon his muscles, and a glow of boyish pride came with it.
Dimly hisboyish heart was aware of happiness and suffering.
He loved the extraordinary sensations that came with it, and tried to probe their meaning in his boyish way.
He chuckled happily over his boyish plan; he would not announce himself; he would surprise her.
He had a wild, boyish conviction that by subjecting himself now to the extremest inconvenience, he could by and by cause the hotel management poignant remorse.
In a moment he had opened the door, and greeted his father in the old boyish fashion, with an honest kiss on either cheek.
It was quite unnecessary and wrong, she said, to prevent Lynmnouth from his innocent boyish amusements.
He always walked back with me, talking in his eager, boyish way.
My heart was yearning over him, he was so boyish and weak and impulsive; but I would not spare him.
I see I have fallen in good hands,' he replied, brightening at this in a boyish sort of way.
The ghosts of lost hopes, the ghosts of good resolutions, the phantom of my boyish innocence, the shadow of my wasted youth, the spectre of my dissolute manhood.
In the year 1397, when he was just ten years old, a few entries occur, somewhat interesting, as intimations of his boyish pursuits.
In a boyish way, and all unrealizing, he loved the child with a sort of love that would one day flower out as an absorbing passion.
In the midst of it, I saw the tall, almost boyish figure of Bonny Page, and the sight of her gallant air and her brilliant, vivacious smile aroused in me instantly the oppressive self-consciousness of our first meeting.
To the boyish mind the lecturer is pictured as an old fossil to whom he has to listen attentively for an hour without understanding a word of his learned discourse.
They have not proved the distinguished, brilliant, and sympathetic beings you imagined them in your boyish dreams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
