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  • How would I ever feel comforted by their small-boy embrace?

    George Heymont: The Irrationality of Love and Art George Heymont 2011

  • How would I ever feel comforted by their small-boy embrace?

    George Heymont: The Irrationality of Love and Art George Heymont 2011

  • He proceeded to offer his account of the past year—tales of his flotilla of small-boy ships and the littoral war against the dead that kicked off in the early weeks.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • Byord maintained the usual small-boy zoo of bugs and amphibia.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • He proceeded to offer his account of the past year—tales of his flotilla of small-boy ships and the littoral war against the dead that kicked off in the early weeks.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • Taylor ruthlessly recruited children as soldiers; human-rights groups have charged that his troops injected prospective members of a "small-boy unit" with heroin and cocaine and had them carry out atrocities in order to eliminate their natural abhorrence of killing.

    A Bully In His Pulpit 2008

  • Even after the new addition to the Button family had had his hair cut short and then dyed to a sparse unnatural black, had had his face shaved so dose that it glistened, and had been attired in small-boy clothes made to order by a flabbergasted tailor, it was impossible for

    Row Three » Read Fitzgerald’s Curious Case of Bejamin Button - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008

  • Although J.M. Barrie died in 1937, he would not be surprised if he were alive today to hear that many teenage rebels in Sierra Leone were often scared of what Singer refers to as the ruthless "small-boy" units.

    The Humanist Essay Contest 3.3.08 Denise 2007

  • Even after the new addition to the Button family had had his hair cut short and then dyed to a sparse unnatural black, had had his face shaved so dose that it glistened, and had been attired in small-boy clothes made to order by a flabbergasted tailor, it was impossible for Button to ignore the fact that his son was a excuse for a first family baby.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • Jim passed her often on the street, walking small-boy fashion with her hands in her pockets and he knew that with her inseparable Sally Carrol Hopper she had left a trail of broken hearts from Atlanta to New Orleans.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

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