Sentence examples for a delicate boy from inspiring English sources

He was a delicate boy, but when the Franco-German War of 1870 broke out his mother sent him to the army.

He seems from adolescence to have been a delicate boy, always ailing, and at this period of his stay in Germany he suffered a breakdown, with thoughts of suicide.

A delicate boy, he grows up to love art - the great American landscape art of the 19th century, what has been called "The American Sublime", which celebrated the vast terrible beauty of nature and dwarfed man.

Having introduced us to his French mother, Clémentine, and his Syrian-born father, Abdel-Razak – and, of course, to the young Riad, a delicate boy with luxuriant blond hair – it took us on a series of journeys.

Tom had been a sickly, delicate boy, and as a teenager began to suffer the panic attacks that would dog him until the very last days of his life.

An Easter Island statue reborn as a sensitive, delicate boy.

A rather delicate boy (to quote his own estimation of himself at that age), he nevertheless produced and acted in school plays.

In a world that allows Raymond Buys to be tortured to death because he was a soft and delicate boy, the travesties continue.

He was moved by pictures like "Selling Newspapers," a photograph of a delicate young boy in Ho Chi Minh City, holding a newspaper under one arm, gazing with tired eyes at the camera.

As a child, he was cast in the role of the "delicate" boy, always wrapped up and fussed over by his mother Lily, and always with half an eye on the farm boys next door.

The mother with the delicate boy arrives, spends each day with her friends, wearing them out with tales and worries of all her son's illnesses.