Sentence examples for delicate boy from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde also described football as all right for rough girls but hardly the game for delicate boys.

He finds refuge in the company of a seven-year-old child he babysits, "a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved".

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.

John Sutherland has pointed out the many illogicalities of the narrative, but most readers travel happily and unquestioningly through time and space with Scrooge as he revisits his own past and sees the struggles of the Cratchit family and their delicate youngest boy, Tiny Tim.

"The agenda here was dressing up a soft, delicate little boy into a the sort of iron-stubbled man who looks like he belongs on a battlefield," Ace writes.