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Meanings of boyhood in English

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Usage of boyhood in English
1
He worked in his boyhood and youth in a factory in Waltham.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
2
He was not afraid; he had been the same in his boyhood.
The Blind Spot
3
Once more as in boyhood he saw the world full of allurement.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
4
These muster-days happened three or four times in my boyhood in Concord.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
5
This outrage had appalled and disgusted the boyhood of Wesleyanism in Bursley.
Clayhanger
6
Golf:He has put himself in a position to fulfil his boyhood dreams.
The Irish Times
7
It is a boyhood dream, he told reporters ahead of the flight.
Radio NZ
8
The Emperor was his friend; they had known each other from boyhood.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
9
He had spent a great part of his boyhood in the country.
The Girl at Cobhurst
10
The proceedings of courts had possessed to him in boyhood peculiar interest.
The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. H...
11
The childhood and boyhood of Aurelius fell during the reign of Hadrian.
Seekers after God
12
Such knowledge, gained in boyhood, sinks in deep and is never forgotten.
The Unwilling Vestal
13
And the boyhood Evertonian could hardly have chosen better opponents to punish.
The Irish Times
14
But similar crazy seizures had been incident to the Egyptian from boyhood.
Idolatry: A Romance
15
The bathing pool had been the greatest pleasure of his uncared-for boyhood.
The Shuttle
16
He never again escaped out of boyhood in her consciousness of him.
Poor White: A Novel
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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