"Boyishly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... boyishly while he measured and fitted in the hinges, and when it came to holding the door while the hinges were screwed in place, he called to Charlotte. She came, with lips as usual closed very tight, but with cheeks ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... respond; tried to do her full part—it would all help so much, if she only could. But this mood of Larry's was fraught with danger—did she not know? Success did not make him understanding and considerate; it made him boyishly ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... shivering at the revelation in her father's voice, Miles Morgan's words seemed like soothing music—"it's but fair that you and I should handle the thing together—what there is of it, Mr. Madigan," he added hastily, as Madigan was about to speak; and he leaned forward, holding out his hand boyishly. "There may not be much, but I can get English capital to develop it, at a sacrifice of half its value now, and its possibilities. So that will leave only quarter shares for each of us. I may be offering you only a lot of ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson
... and Connie escorted them triumphantly down the walk to the waiting car where the young man in the new sentimental gray suit stood beside the open door. His face was boyishly eager, and his eyes were full of a satisfaction that had a sort of excitement in it, too. Aunt Grace looked at him and sighed. "Poor boy," she thought. "He is nice! Carol is a mean ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston
... be thus romantically cast up on the shores of Kon Klayu with them, but woman is potentially a mother and even her heart was touched by his plight. For Harlan, trying—and failing—to appear nonchalant and at ease in his embarrassing situation was boyishly appealing. ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... magazine, clipped it into the big automatic with a deft snap, and turned round toward them. Noting their attitude, he colored boyishly. ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... quickly away into the darkness. He had dressed himself in his Sunday clothes and had put on a black derby hat and a stiff white collar, set off by a red necktie. The shining whiteness of the collar made his brown skin look almost black. He smiled boyishly and raised his hat awkwardly ...
— Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories • Sherwood Anderson
... thought at the time, the poor young man had not needed any artificial stimulant in the days when Adelaide had fully and constantly admired him. He had seen Severance come home several times not exactly drunk, but rather more boyishly boastful and hilarious than usual. Even Mr. Lanley, a naturally temperate man, had not found Joe repellent in the circumstances. Afterward he had been thankful for this weakness: it gave him the only foundation on which he could build a case not for the ...
— The Happiest Time of Their Lives • Alice Duer Miller
... declensions, dread spectres, and approach thou chiefest, Shade and Phantom of the disused (thank Heaven) Birch, at whose entry to my imagination a sudden shiver takes my rump, and a trifle then more would make me begin to let down my breeches to my calves, and turning boy, howl boyishly. ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas
... beautiful, hyacinth eyes—stared strickenly in front of her, wide and horrified like the eyes of a hunted thing, and her hands were twisted and wrung beneath the stress of the overwhelming knowledge which Tim had so joyously prattled out to her. She could hear him now, boyishly enthusiastic, extolling Garth with the eager, unstinted hero-worship of youth, and every word he said had pierced her like ...
— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler
... I have said?" he asked, laughing boyishly, and wincing under her touch. The suggestion of intimacy in her ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... you were my first. I like your looks. I'd hate for you to have the bad luck to get me for your lawyer." He laughed, boyishly. There was a very ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... the drawing-room door in a marvelous creation which seemed made of diamond-tipped, rainbow-tinted mist. From it her youthful shoulders and slim neck rose creamily, surmounted by a small head banded boyishly with golden hair. Her wide eyes were china blue, her nose piquantly retrousse and she was as vacuously pretty ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant
... of his hands, boyishly working them backward and forward, as his elbow rested on the ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte |
