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  • “Kondo-san, after all, had seen talent in the wild street-boy, aggression, perhaps even a future.”

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  • “The street-boy Biden speak, I've loved every time I've agreed with him throughout the years.”

    Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes

  • “David still possessed some ascendency over the young fellow, due not to his position as master, nor yet to the interest that he had taken in his pupil, but to the great intellectual power which the sometime street-boy fully recognized.”

    Eve and David

  • “Nature had endowed Cerizet with an insignificant, rather pretty little countenance, red hair, and a pair of dull blue eyes; he had come to Angouleme and brought the manners of the Parisian street-boy with him.”

    Eve and David

  • “To Lucien, watching this creature, who played for him alone, caring no more for Camusot than a street-boy in the gallery cares for an apple-paring, there came a moment when he set desire above love, and enjoyment above desire, and the demon of Lust stirred strange thoughts in him.”

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

  • “And on his canvas there appeared, in place of the proud lady, a street-boy, and behind him a vast, sloping, purple background which made one think of the Place Pigalle.”

    Within a Budding Grove

  • “He smiled, with a secret quirk of sheer street-boy naughtiness in his twisted lips, only to receive a considerable shock as he found it not only remarked and recognised but also forgiven by the old priest.”

    The Tiger in the Smoke

  • “The tempter, in the form of a "street-boy," waylaid him at the corner with a challenge to a competitive show for tops.”

    Choice Readings for the Home Circle

  • “The aim of this novel is to describe the course of a street-boy who takes to thieving before he knows that it is not a legitimate business, and who being possessed naturally of a good character is brought to repentance and reform when subjected to better influences.”

    A History of English Prose Fiction

  • “A ragged street-boy, with eager eye, turned upon him instantly, and said in a hoarse whisper”

    Sketches New And Old

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