He went straight back to the quiet figure on the hearth, lifted the free arm, and drew it boyishly round his neck.
There was a boyishly pathetic note about the words though the lips that uttered them still smiled.
In consequence, he felt quite boyishly eager for the hours to pass on Wednesday, and when at last it was time to start, dismissed his chauffeur with a curt sentence, and started off alone.
Hal, with her shining eyes, rising coulour, and laughing lips, and Hermon with a sort of answering glow in his face, boyishly gripping her shoulders as if to shake her.
It was difficult to suppose she did not half guess what was in his mind, and yet, without showing the smallest consciousness or shyness, she faced him with a look so boyishly frank and open it utterly disarmed him.
You are the Comtesse de Verneuil," said I in English, veryboyishly and eagerly.
Master," said I, boyishly full of my new idea, "do you think Major Walters would sit to me?
As he stared at her, with surprise, relief, and admiration struggling in his boyishly handsome face, she smiled, and in that instant the phlegmatic young man experienced a new sensation.
At this point Monck laughed so suddenly and boyishly that she found it utterly impossible to continue her reproaches.
His respect for him was unbounded, and his pride in their intimacy was boyishly whole-hearted.
All right," he boyishly answered, but his heart contracted with sudden fear of finding her false.
By the time the coffee came on he was talking almost boyishly with his hostess and his face had lost its troubled lines.
He was quiet, but no longer sullen, and he was boyishly interested in the wonders of the Canyon.
I hope so," Nucky's hard face looked for a moment boyishly worried.
He flushed boyishly in happy embarrassment, incapable of words for an instant; and silently the staff looked on.
She saw that he was blinking almost boyishly at the compliment and noted the little deprecatory shake of his head, as much as to say that they were making a mistake.
Miss Arlee Beecher, with a direct gaze more boyishly eager than he knew.
He hesitated, blushedboyishly through his tan, and blurted, "There's something mighty queer about that departure of hers yesterday.
The Black Panther and the boyishly slim girl in mauve tunic and tights waltzed, for one recurrence of the tune, alone.
This was a very tall, dark girl with an impish face, a figure boyishly slim.
He nodded toward the bank president with a boyishly mischievous air.
The young man's face took on a boyishly confidential look.
Terry had complainedboyishly that Stella ran away from him, was shy of his caresses.
To conceal from his stomach the fact that it was hungry, Father grew boyishly enthusiastic about going Southward.
He kissed her boyishlyand trotted over to the window.
The image of Chief Larkin's boyishlyhandsome face came into focus on the screen.
Larkin was tall, in his forties, but stillboyishly handsome.
His reverence for Mary was doubled, and he was much concerned at his exclusion, attributing it to his mistimed proposals, and becoming sensible that he had actedboyishly and without due respect.
Johnnie felt boyishly shy and awkward then, looking at the floor and wriggling his toes, and taking back into his cheeks quite a supply of color in the form of blushes.
He laughed boyishly in his excitement and new hope.
He had just been guided to that table, and pending the arrival of a waiter, he was gazing eagerly, boyishly about him at such delights as the somewhat garish Peacock Cabaret displayed.
Perhaps he was recalling her as he had seen her at the Kursaal--boyishly slender, her eager, pointed face alight with gay enthusiasm and amusement.
Ann's heart grew very soft at the thought of Tony's boyishly crude effort to protect her from the possible consequence of their night's sojourn at the hotel.
She was almost boyishly slender in build, and there was a sense of swift vitality about all her movements that reminded one of the free, untrammelled grace of a young panther.
There was something almost boyishly disarming about his manner.
But he kept a pleasant face upon all things, believed in play, loved it himself, shared boyishly in theirs, and knew how to put a face of entertainment upon business and a spirit of education into entertainment.
Not that she ceased to like Earl Usher, who awkwardly resented her overtures and wasboyishly ashamed of them, but her jealousy seemed, after the handing over of Mr. Logan, to lose its bitterness.
As she compared him with Humiston, he seemed handsomer and more boyishly frank than ever.
Bryan explained simply and boyishly that he had no women in his own family and that she was his closest woman friend.
And then forgetting what she had just said, she took off her hat for the second time to wave it boyishly at the approaching train.
The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.
He was becoming boyishly dramatic with sweeping gestures which amazed her; but she was conscious that it was all sincere and very real to him.
He looked up at her, the same slight pucker between his brows, boyishly slender in his evening dress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyishly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
