Pronunciation of the English word boy.
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1. | A boy having sold a cow at the fair at Hereford, was way-laid by a highwayman, who at a convenient place demanded the money; on this the boy took to his heels and ran away but being overtaken by the highwayman, who dismounted, he pulled the money out of his pocket and strewed it about, and while the highwayman was picking it up, the boy jumped upon the horse and rode home. | |
2. | "What's today?" cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him. "Eh?" returned the boy, with all his might of wonder. "What's today, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge. "Today!" replied the boy. "Why, Christmas Day." | |
3. | A boy and a girl came in. I spoke to the boy, who seemed to be older than the girl. | |
4. | Your second child is a boy? Lucky you! Things are going according to the saying - Have a girl first and a boy next. | |
5. | I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. | |
6. | Karthik is a boy. He is a good boy. | |
7. | Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership. | |
8. | I've got two kids. One of them is a boy, and the other one's a boy, too. | |
9. | In winter, the windows were sometimes quite frozen over. But then the boy and the girl would warm copper pennies on the stove, and hold the warm pennies against the frozen pane; there would be very soon a little round hole through which they could peep, and the soft bright eyes of the little boy and girl would beam through the hole at each window as they looked at each other. | |
10. | "So, are you all set for the big day?" "Yeah! I can't believe it will be my first day of high school!" cried Link enthusiastically. "I can't believe it, either," mused the King. "It's as if it was just yesterday. I was just teaching you how to add one and one. Now look at you... My little boy's becoming a man." "Huh?" Link said in surprise. "Being in high school makes me a man?" "Yeah, it sure does... Fari, give me my headache wine." "Oh boy!" |