I suppose you consider it as boyishness in me, Cousin Wallace, to like to have a squirrel," said he.
What kind of boyishness do you mean then, that is not harmless?
It is a very harmless kind of boyishness at all events," replied Wallace.
That is the nature of the kind of boyishness that I am speaking of.
Still that kind of boyishness does little harm, and we should not probably do any thing about it, but should leave you to outgrow it in your own time.
All but idolaters acknowledge a certain boyishness in him--a boyishness which is in fact no mean source contributary of his charm in verse.
There had been no hint ofboyishness before, in fact something of baffling inscrutability in the black eyes, gave the man an expression of extreme sophistication.
Always, during these brief visits, her lurking distrust of him vanished in the frank boyishness of his personality.
Then the boyishness pent up within him came bursting out once more.
She understood the type with which she had to deal, the absurd boyishness that was linked with the brutality of it, the lack of mind to give words their true, their inmost meaning.
His boyishness was quenched for a moment, but it revived at the sight of Peter riding up to the gates of the park.
All the boyishness had gone out of his face, which now had the spent look of one who has had a great fright or suffered great pain.
His shoulders dragged as though under a pack, and every trace ofboyishness was wrung like a rag out of his face.
Then all the boyishness died out of you--the sweet, idle reveries, the mystic responsibilities.
The boyishness to which I have referred ran through every part of his character and every act of his life.
He told me many anecdotes of the cavalier, nearly all of which turned in some way upon the generous boyishness of his character in some one or other of its phases.
His boyishness was always apparent, and the affectionate nature of the man was hardly less so, even in public.
After the adventure in Munich their unimportant boyishness had not even been observed by such perils as might have threatened them.
And he pulled off his cap with quickboyishness and added, "God be thanked!
There was a lingering boyishness in the financier, the boyishness of the boy who muddles along in an unsympathetic world and can never do anything right: and this quality called aloud to the youth in her.
That lingering boyishness in him which endeared him to Ann always led him to open his Sabbath reading in this fashion.
She went to him, her eyes still full of the music, and noticed that he was a little white and very grave, with something of his boyishness stricken out of him.
Sylvia couldn't help smiling at the boyishness of his protestations, earnest as they were and touching in their unwonted humility.
One day as he rode out of Rome he saw that fog was gathering; and he resolved, for there was an inexhaustible well of boyishnesswithin him, to get lost in it.
Boyishness and high spirits and impetuous independence of soul are not crimes, however, and the college in later years was glad to confer upon him his degree.
His frequent artificiality and his lack of sincerity came from his boyishness and his high spirits.
Guy looked sure and seasoned as he poured out his plans; and together with the maturing tan and breadth from his rough life, there was an unconquerable boyishness in the lift of his head and the light of his eyes.
The weak and shaken invalid still had something of unconquerable boyishness in the lift of his head and the light of his eyes.
She liked the homeliness of his tinkering about the house; his strength and handiness as he tightened the hinges of a shutter; his boyishness when he ran to her to be comforted because he had found rust in the barrel of his pump-gun.
What aroused her to something more than liking was his boyishness when they went tramping.
There was a certain boyishness about Prescott, however, which usually enabled him to carry these things off without offence, because they were obviously so natural and so unpremeditated.
His boyishness took other forms which were more generally pleasing.
There was a touch of boyishness that appealed, a touch of insistent masterfulness that alarmed.
Perhaps her hesitation hung on the very boyishness of his proposal.
But, taking all things into consideration, he was singularly unspoilt and unassuming; and sometimes blended with an old-fashioned, paternal air a boyishness and power of enjoyment that could not fail to charm.
An unguessed boyishness and charm had come to Ben in these ripe, full summer days: the hard lines softened in his face and mostly the hard shine left his eyes.
There was a sweetness, a hint of kindly boyishness in his face now, so changed since she had left him beside the glowing coals.
But enough boyishness remained to make him feel highly delighted, in spite of everything, at the prospect of showing the girls to his new friends, and his new friends to them.
She found herself trying to find the right word to describe his strength and cleanness and physical beauty, the odd boyishness of him, the passion that was without animalism,--and failed.
Or it may have been that her deep nature found delight in the excellent boyishness of the tanned face.
He chaffed the native who waited upon him, and his face softened into charmingboyishness as he laughed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyishness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
