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

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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

    Sean Penn: Mountain of Snakes 2008

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2007

  • 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 2003

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