He had heard that some savages despised the purest pearls, while they set a high value on bits of glittering glass, and so he thought that some of his accomplishments might be very little thought of by other boys.
He felt that he could do a number of things, but he was diffident from not knowing of what value they might be considered by other boys.
Other boys, following the old system, went hammering and hammering away at their grammar without understanding it, and without being able to apply its rules, and lost their own time and patience, and that of their unfortunate masters.
This inability to do his lessons so well as other boys was a deep and lasting grief to Hugh.
Do you have any firsthand knowledge of that difference between him and the other boys as far as refinement and being well mannered?
Indeed, there were hundreds of other boys of his own age for whom anyone would have felt safe in prophesying a more notable career.
John Wanamaker, the boy, had no single thing in all his surroundings to give him an advantage over any one of hundreds of other boys in the city of Philadelphia.
Illustration: His cleanliness pleased his mother and she boasted of it to the mothers of other boys.
He found himself promoted to stay beyond the hour of pupilage in order pleasantly to pass away a second hour by dancing formally with the sisters and cousins of other boys.
When he showed it to Madame Flauve, she professed herself shocked by the cruelty of it and begged him to release the fly, asserting that she would find him a substitute which would deceive all the other boys.
He was not anxious to fall in love: many times to other boys he had mocked at woman and dilated upon the folly of matrimony.
He was probably much as other boys are as far as badness or goodness is concerned.
Other boys' instincts led them to poach a trout out of a stream, and rejoice in their success if they were not caught.
He acted according to his instincts, but having so acted the difference between him and other boys came in.
I kotch him at it one time, and he give me a set not to tell t'other boys.
He has to guard the home and catch the other boys if he can.
Other boys form a ring round him, joining hands and alternately raising and lowering them, to imitate bell-pulling, while the girls who play sit down and weep.
Accroshay A cap or small article is placed on the back of a stooping boy by other boys as each in turn jumps over him.
I think a boy ought to be here at least two years before he goes up, so as to be well grounded; and if Shepard did go up, and did pass by cramming, it would make the parents of other boys discontented if I kept their sons two years.
Sometimes Walter was allowed to take Eden for a stroll on the shore during school hours, when there was no danger of their being excited or interrupted by the boisterous society of other boys.
Only because it fell heavier on me than on other boys.
He told him of many ways in which, by kindness, by moral courage, by Christian principle, he might be a help and a blessing to other boys.
Not just now and again, as other boys do, but he rarely touched a game or a sport before he would ingeniously twist it into a "pretend" railroad.
He seemed to be a born leader, with a crowd of other boys always at his heels ready to follow where he ventured, or to mimic what he did.
But once during the entire morning the Indian stirred; he did not seem to awake as other boys do, but more like a rabbit.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other boys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
