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  • Their feeble vaporings show no more than a schoolboy's comprehension of the nature of the revolution.

    Revolution 2010

  • Even in the poems written in the last, ailing years of his life, you sense a schoolboy's impish hunger for plunder: Auden was forever on the lookout for another unviolated orchard from which he could pilfer a couple of apples, a glowing orange.

    Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011

  • He was only a schoolboy, with a schoolboy's tongue, when he was in her presence.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • Mr. Faulks finds himself having to re-adjust his early reading of "Pride and Prejudice," which he says was clouded by a typical schoolboy's sense of injustice.

    The Work, Not the Author, Matters Tobias Grey 2011

  • That was the year of his last cap, won in extraordinary circumstances: Wales were a man down when a player simply didn't turn up, so Kenrick lived every schoolboy's dream and jumped the fence, playing in his civvies and putting in a stellar performance while wearing his everyday clogs.

    Has a referee ever won an international cap? Scott Murray 2010

  • A bloke like Virgin's Richard Branson, who literally takes notes on every meeting in a schoolboy's notebook, will seem like a quaint oddity from the Oulde Country.

    Michael Conniff: Aspen High Dis Cursive Michael Conniff 2010

  • Fitzgerald said that even if at the time this assessment may have been justified, the former schoolboy's progress towards rehabilitation while in custody had been excellent.

    Boy who raped teacher gets life term cut to eight years 2010

  • His top major, Reno, who seemed a dapper, quiet, clever sort of chap, concealed any animosity he may have felt, but the dominant spirit in the mess, a big burly bargee with prematurely white hair and a schoolboy's eyes and grin, called Benteen, seemed ready to lock horns with Custer as soon as look at him.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • A bloke like Virgin's Richard Branson, who literally takes notes on every meeting in a schoolboy's notebook, will seem like a quaint oddity from the Oulde Country.

    Michael Conniff: Aspen High Dis Cursive Michael Conniff 2010

  • And the height of silliness: Following the tepidly-postmodern assertion that genre prison films presen a unique opportunity to deconstruct "masculinity", the author makes a schoolboy's reference to a ubiquitous prison-sodomy scene as a "sex-related shower scene".

    Movie Review: A Prophet (Is the Cannes Fave Really a Godfather-esque Masterpiece?) | /Film 2010

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