Word: boying
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...dear boy, are you hurt? Let me - ' And she had her scissors out and ripped the string up in a jiffy. The shoe came off; and there was that cigarette stub...
...meant she would marry the poor beggar boy...
...what he attempts to do. One of his latest works, L'lle Mysterieuse, is a sort of Robinson Crusoe romance. But there is, after all, little choice among his books, of which everybody should at least read one in the original. Hector Malot's Romain Kalbris is a charming boy's book, which would interest...
...father is a lawyer. When I left home last fall for college, he said: "My dear boy some time you may be in want of advice such as I cannot give you. If that is the case, go to the best lawyer in Boston and state your trouble to him. Some men, and many women, like to send their sons to parsons. But I tell you, a lawyer knows forty times as much about the world as a parson does...
...most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist the very boy that knows all about that same himsilf, is more worthy of hearing than a disjointed howl of "Where art thou now, my beloved?" by the unmusical soul who comes up stairs taking three steps to each word. And there is so great a fondness for attempting this latter kind...