Now he tried hard to look as little-boy as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trellisane Confrontation] Reference

Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pop a mint, Newt] Reference

His eyes were clear amber, his lashes little-boy long.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ORCHID] Reference

There was a puzzled, little-boy expression on his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyberbooks]

Or what the headless little-boy robot Sivana's chasing is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week 23: Black Adam and Grey Theology] Reference

Usually his mock little-boy manner of arguing was ingratiating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metrognome and other Stories]

Still, I heard the undercurrent of fear in his little-boy voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Lightning Strikes] Reference

Will it be Dale, his mohawk, and his mischievous little-boy face?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Chef Finale Tonight! Holy Crap!] Reference

The sensation of urine-wet sheets gone cold on my little-boy body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

He looked fondly at the child and stroked his rough, little-boy hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

Trees, a lake with little-boy sailboats, statues went by licketysplit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast At Tiffany's]

How does the grown-up version of Pi contrast with his little-boy scenes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Pi by Yann Martel: Questions] Reference

And I think about the old man again and the little-boy hands and that pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

So self-conscious, so self-centered, so adorable in that cute little-boy way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pew: Obama Losing White Working Class Dems To Hillary In Landslide] Reference

He had a delighted, little-boy grin when the first poisonpen letters arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boiling a frog]

He had a delighted, little-boy grin when the first poison-pen letters arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boiling a Frog]

"I don't want to throw them away," Tyson says in his lisping, little-boy voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [He's Back] Reference

I could only laugh and say, "What a bad dream you had in your little-boy days!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kitchen God's wife]

It was a straight-up question, no puppy-dog little-boy pleading in his big brown eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primal Instincts] Reference

"Let me try, Miss, do let me try, " urged the Funny Man, putting on a little-boy voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rubadub Mystery]

Captain Ryan lifted an eyebrow, and a little-boy grin grew out of one side of his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone of Tears]

They were talking tough, making gestures like full-grown black men with little-boy grins.    From Wordnik.com.  [RL’s Dream] Reference

Liam rolled around on the floor beside the dog, his little-boy laugh full bodied and infectious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Bloom] Reference

Lookout where Lollie, fully awake now, was trying to gather two sobbing women into his thin, little-boy arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

He had that excited little-boy energy like he had when he was looking for Sharon Stone and couldn't find her in The Muse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marianne Williamson: Truth Be Told] Reference

He poured sand into the hopper while Jean rocked and Loll, detailing much little-boy wisdom, dipped up the water from the hole beside them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

It is one of their pet little-boy conceits, this being misunderstood.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'] Reference

Landseer himself never did anything better than that little-boy work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People] Reference

Trail, and sprawled across the front page in a funny little-boy hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daddy-Long-Legs] Reference

For a moment, with that odd, little-boy gesture of his, he held on to my sleeve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference

Mr. Crow once told us about some of his little-boy adventures, as you may remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollow Tree Nights and Days] Reference

Gentle, yes, but the familiar and creepy little-boy voice was left in the playground.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Post: News] Reference

It was such a little-boy thing in comparison with the grown-up, responsible rest of him!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wishing-Ring Man] Reference

She had never seemed bigger to me, even in my little-boy days, when I considered her a giant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguards of the Plains] Reference

E3 2009, I was among the many who made jokes about potential uses for the little-boy simulator.    From Wordnik.com.  [G4 TV - TheFeed] Reference

Just because my boss (nearly 60) still gets a goofy little-boy grin every time he mentions her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference