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Certainly the natural, boyish side was more in evidence on the surface.
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His doings in the past seemed just the outcome of boyish spirits.
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He only thought of the young, almost boyish, promise in the lines:
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Scratched in his boyish hand on the first page were these lines:
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Once in the fresh air again he promptly recovered his boyish spirits.
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They had all accompanied his travels, and boylike he valued them immensely.
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Harvey, boylike, was a little embarrassed, but he did not object, however.
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He was confused and, boylike, tried to laugh off my praises.
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But, boylike, they were flying kites, and letting their huge-horned charges herd themselves.
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At times she had a boylike unconcern of sex; again, a spirit wholly feminine.
Usage of schoolboyish in anglès
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Bernal makes a less bearish and schoolboyish impression than Haldane.
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Kathleen, however, was much taken by their schoolboyish ways.
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This crude medieval psychology of heart and brain-Shakespearwould have called it liver and wits-isreally schoolboyish.
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It is jolly hair, schoolboyish hair, hair that apparently refuses to be anything other than it is.
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During this stay in Paris Oscar read enormously and his French, which had been schoolboyish, became quite good.
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They made schoolboyish sounds of assent.
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It sounds schoolboyish but you start trying to work out who to be buddies with -are they going?
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Except for the schoolboyish signature, that was all; but there was a world of importance between the laconic lines.
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He flushed, moved uneasily in his chair, and instead of irony, his face wore a look of stupid, schoolboyish dismay.
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Mr. Prohack felt schoolboyish.
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It is from Madeira. She glanced rapidly over the four pages of straggling writing in the young sailor's bold schoolboyish hand.
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He stood for a moment on the landing outside the door of the private sitting-room, with an absurdly schoolboyish air of bashfulness.
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Because she was too busy to fuss with fine clothes, she wore outsize schoolgirl black dresses with schoolboyish white collars and cuffs.
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But there is something a little schoolboyish in it; and I do not know that Balzac has succeeded entirely in eliminating this something.
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They treated the scouting mission with an almost schoolboyish enthusiasm; although she admitted they were well trained and physically impressive with their boosted muscles.
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All of the men he knew were, to some extent, split in their natures: privately bawdy and schoolboyish, publicly courtly and reserved with women.