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Meanings of little boys in English

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Usage of little boys in English
1
The little boys were in worse pickles of mischief than was ordinary.
What Necessity Knows
2
She was afraid the little boys would be falling in every day.
The Peterkin papers
3
For he was not crying in the usual way with little boys.
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
4
For three little boys had been sitting undressed in the bright sunshine.
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, an...
5
He was gentle and kind-especiallyto little boys; I rough and disobliging.
The Thorogood Family
6
This part of the story is for the little boys and girls.
Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear / Or,...
7
The little boys of the village took charge of them every day.
The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One
8
The little boys would prefer having the pasture a great way off.
The Peterkin papers
9
A compact had been made with the little boys the evening before.
The Peterkin papers
10
The little boys were allowed to watch the cow at her feed.
The Peterkin papers
11
The little boys were much encouraged by their wade into the tide.
The Last of the Peterkins / With Others of Their Kin
12
No old-faced little boys in reefed man-trousers appealed to her sleeping pity.
Gloria and Treeless Street
13
No, that would not be right; little boys must not be greedy.
A Melody in Silver
14
But John Stebbins and the little boys would not think of it.
The Last of the Peterkins / With Others of Their Kin
15
Mrs. Peterkin said that Elizabeth Eliza and the little boys might go.
The Peterkin papers
16
For the little boys were to represent two doves and a raven.
The Peterkin papers
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