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Examples

  • "I'll prove it to you," he announced, beckoning to the black New Hanover boy,

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy,

    All I Ask Is The Chance.... Newmania 2007

  • He stopped what he was saying and said to the boy,

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • “O, we have no bell in the parlour,” returned the boy,

    Cecilia 2008

  • “If you were as good a priest as the Pope,” said the boy,

    The Monastery 2008

  • “If what thou sayest be true,” said the undaunted boy,

    The Monastery 2008

  • Now when Abd al-Rahman saw this case, he arose and said to the boy,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ‘I will tell my loving uncle that,’ replied the boy,

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • “Well, let him whip me if he likes,” said the boy,

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • When we rejoined him in the drawing – room he said he would give us a little ballad which had come into his head “apropos of our young friend,” and he sang one about a peasant boy,

    Bleak House 2007

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