It made him more masculine, more boylike, in my eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [There Was a Time] Reference

She found his pouting face amusing and irresistibly little boylike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never Come Down]

The castles in the air that, boylike, he had builded were crumbled into dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

Then over on Kalauria I heard music and saw torches weaving; and boylike I wanted to go and see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King Must Die]

Father Boniface nodded his solemn dark head, and wiped oily fingers, boylike, in the skirt of his gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heretic's Apprentice]

Lollie, poking about, came upon a piece of rope, which, boylike, he took outside and wound about his waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference

But, boylike, we discounted all she said, and felt we wanted some of this world before we knocked at the gates of the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference

As for Archie, boylike, he was full of excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863,] Reference

His imagination, boylike, was aghast at the unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varmint] Reference

He was confused and, boylike, tried to laugh off my praises.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fool Errant] Reference

They had all accompanied his travels, and boylike he valued them immensely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim] Reference

Charles Aycock, boylike, secured a seat immediately under the speakers 'stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock] Reference

I cried, and added boylike: "And she is just as good as you or me, and better.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Carvel — Complete] Reference

So, boylike, I resolved, in my great love for Shakoona, to try and kill that bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Adventures of Three Boys] Reference

This nettled Hilary, who, boylike, had no little idea of his importance in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"] Reference

He discerned shadows, nothing more, and, boylike, he ran from shadows into the sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hill A Romance of Friendship] Reference

Herbert, boylike, was penniless; and he offered a fine brace of snipe to propitiate the oracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Linwoods; Or, "sixty Years Since" in America] Reference

They chuckled, boylike, because they would be late for bed; and it was all mother Wendy's fault!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Wendy] Reference

As he spoke, he gathered Flea's black curls into his fingers and cut them off boylike to her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Valley of the Missing] Reference

She recommends them for a boylike silhouette because they're narrow through the thigh as well as the ankle.    From Wordnik.com.  [LSU Tigers Central] Reference

She had liked the young doctor at first sight; had discerned in him something charmingly boylike and appealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Window-Gazer] Reference

And when Steve caught sight of Jim's sober face and heard the story, he thought it very boylike and rather amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference

I followed in boylike imitation, searching every thicket for alien form and color, and yearning for stature and responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

Next, distending his ruddy cheeks, twitching his moustache, and regarding me covertly out of boylike eyes, the Lieutenant resumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Russia] Reference

It was then past midnight and he was eighty, but, boylike, after he got Mrs. Gladstone safely home he had determined to see the show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie]

The hope of reward was effectual for awhile in securing silence, but, boylike, "Tad" soon forgot his promise, and was as noisy as ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference

The humiliation on Cidro’s face was genuine, boylike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Town] Reference

"I was layin 'in the hay, an' boylike, the tears was rollin 'down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

A true affection for the girl, boylike concealed it by a show of indifference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference

I stared at him, boylike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

Dextry's enthusiasm was boylike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spoilers] Reference

That maltreated pillow was so funny and boylike.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've Married Marjorie] Reference

"Glorious, Ruth!" he cried, with boylike wonder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One Woman] Reference