BOYHOOD in a Sentence

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When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOYHOOD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
boyhood
 n.  the childhood of a boy
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
3  Yes; there had been things in his boyhood that he had not understood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
4  Grace was his, and the white purity of boyhood, and beauty such as old Greek marbles kept for us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  When the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mask of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
6  There would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted body, that he remembered in the grandfather who had been so stern to him in his boyhood.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  I had visited it frequently during my boyhood.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and recognized, reminded me of days gone by, and were associated with the lighthearted gaiety of boyhood.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  It was as if the tranquil sanctuary of my boyhood had been sacked before my face, and its peace and honour given to the winds.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
10  I said he was my dearest friend, the protector of my boyhood, and the companion of my prime.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
11  I cannot say at what stage of my grief it first became associated with the reflection, that, in my wayward boyhood, I had thrown away the treasure of her love.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
12  It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In I
13  No bitter meanness now shall sicken his baby heart till it die a living death, no taunt shall madden his happy boyhood.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  For the first time the young man recognized his dark boyhood playmate, and John knew that it was the Judge's son.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
15  In fact, the greater part of the education I secured in my boyhood was gathered through the night-school after my day's work was done.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
Example Sentence:
1  He had a fund of stories about his boyhood.
2  The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.
3  My album of boyhood photographs often reminds me of the past happiness.