The case of refusing the schoolboy is a clear one. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Once in ten thousand times it happens that the schoolboy is a born master of what they try to teach him. From Wordnik.com. [Major Barbara] Reference
Coleridge adapted Wordsworth's translation of a drinking song, which Mays describes as a schoolboy exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Translation of a Celebrated Greek Song] Reference
But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow for the matter in hand; and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories] Reference
But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow for the matter in hand, and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he. From Wordnik.com. [The Purloined Letter] Reference
But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow, for the matter in hand; and many a schoolboy is a better reasoner than he. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
Then I recalled a schoolboy expedient against big dogs, and twisted the rock into my handkerchief, and gave this a turn round my wrist. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
He was given the nickname "schoolboy" by his classmates at Webb. From Wordnik.com. [Dodge, Ward K.] Reference
"The schoolboy is the easiest wrestling maneuver in the WRESTLING 101. From Wordnik.com. [PWTorch.com] Reference
Wenger refuses to put blame on deputy keeper after he lets in two 'schoolboy' goals. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
But I was surprised that this kind of schoolboy/girl antics are actually not limited to school yards. From Wordnik.com. [Niamah!!!] Reference
It recalls your schoolboy days, when you pretended to go to bed and then stole out to skate by moonlight! ". From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
John Lewis - standard "schoolboy" grey socks, pack of 5 pairs, £6 (08456 049 049; www. jonathanaston.co.uk). From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I recall a schoolboy coming home. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
"schoolboy" when it comes to the task of chasing experienced campaigners like Rafael Benitez and Sir Alex Ferguson. From Wordnik.com. [TEAMtalk Football News] Reference
As a schoolboy athlete, Edwards never sulked in defeat. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOYISH WONDER] Reference
He tells ribald stories, then cackles like a schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln Reconstructed] Reference
It was a remarkable comment for any 10-year-old schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [SCHOOL DAYS WITH A QAEDA SUSPECT] Reference
But don't let Harris's innocent schoolboy profile fool you. From Wordnik.com. [He's His Own Doublemint Twin] Reference
Like a schoolboy seeking affirmation, he asked, "" Did I do OK?. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Gloves] Reference
Not bad for a runner who never won a Texas schoolboy championship. From Wordnik.com. [Good As Gold] Reference
It was schoolboy simple: four laps, four quarter miles, four minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: On Athletes And Heroes] Reference
Navy at the end of World War II, when he was still a 17-old schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [At What Cost?] Reference
In shorts, sandals and a pink shirt, he looks like any other schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Soldiers] Reference
At Berkhamsted the schoolboy Graham was bullied and suicidally unhappy. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis] Reference
Dad was as giddy as a schoolboy that day, showing off the various exhibits. From Wordnik.com. [Why I'll Always Wave The Flag of My Father] Reference
"I carried a torch for her for 55 years," Masters explained, giddy as a schoolboy. From Wordnik.com. [Sexual Masters of the Universe] Reference
He studies legislation in obsessive detail, writing analyses in a dear, schoolboy longhand. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Wave] Reference
More likely, he will follow the rough-and-tumble code of the schoolboy and play hard to the end. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning In America] Reference
In 1941, at De Witt Clinton High School, he was named the schoolboy poet laureate of New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Avedon] Reference
Anti-America and anti-Israel hacker attacks attributed to Islamic militants have already gone well beyond schoolboy pranks. From Wordnik.com. [Computer Lessons For Terrorists] Reference
One historian tells the story of a squeamish Japanese schoolboy in the 1930s who burst into tears when told to dissect a frog. From Wordnik.com. [Exposing The Rape Of Nanking] Reference
MOVIESGet Real A skinny English schoolboy (the marvelous Ben Silverstone) falls for a handsome star athlete in this coming-out drama. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Mass] Reference
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