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Meanings of barefoot boy in English

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Usage of barefoot boy in English
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Elizabeth looked at him, a lanky barefoot boy with trousers too short.
Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance
2
Poverty is not the grand difficulty with the little barefoot boy of spring.
Remarks
3
A ten-year-old, barefoot boy could be seen coming down the road from the wood.
The Created Legend
4
This family was that of the merry barefoot boy.
Les Misérables
5
He kept seeing a small, barefoot boy who rummaged in a treasure box labelled "Cake."
The Wrong Twin
6
The barefoot boy did persevere until he had overcome every difficulty and become a master of his art.
Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power
7
The sweet, happy voice of a woman and a whistling barefoot boy-theseseemed utterly out of place here.
The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border
8
Coming toward me I perceived a pretty little barefoot boy, with a basket full of red, luscious strawberries.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
9
Photographs from the time show a barefoot boy sitting on a swing or on a pony called Prince.
The Irish Times
10
Painted in 1926, it depicts a barefoot boy standing next to his sister, who is ensconced in their mother's lap.
Reuters
11
I love to think of you, a little barefoot boy, bringing home the cows-andnever, never dreaming once of me!
Lewis Rand
12
The barefoot boy did persevere until he had overcome every difficulty and become the greatest master of art the world has known.
An Iron Will
13
Upon a rock outside of Colombo stood a barefoot boy, his dark eyes gazing toward the tropically green mountains of the island.
Out of the Triangle: A Story of the Far East
14
She cried pitifully, and was almost dead when a brown-faced, barefoot boy, with a fishing-pole on his shoulder, passed and heard her.
The Song of the Cardinal
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The barefoot boy of spring will also proceed to bathe in the river as soon as the ice and the policeman are out.
Remarks
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An excited woman bathed his face, and a barefoot boy, as fleet as a deer, was sent across the creek for a doctor.
Old Ebenezer
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