Sentence examples for high-spirited boy from inspiring English sources

Francis, a high-spirited boy, was their leader and paid the bills, which made him popular.

(Ages 10 and up) The hero is a good boy with no internal brakes; this novel about the lovable Joey's troubled summer with his father is insightful, without being preachy, about the problems a high-spirited boy faces today.

As a teen-ager, he belonged to a gang of rowdies from prosperous Assisi families who, of a night, would eat a fine dinner, get drunk, and, in the words of Francis's first biographer, commit "every kind of debauchery". Francis, a high-spirited boy, was their leader and paid the bills, which made him popular.

Memoirs by British and American officers who, at a later stage in the war, conducted daring parachute drops into partisan territory, romanticize the partisans as bands of high-spirited boys and girls who might dance late into the night in a farmer's barn before setting out to blow up a bridge.

Even if one questions the huge increase in Ritalin prescriptions for children -- by one estimate, 500 percent in the last decade -- or wonders why the United States consumes 90percentt of the world supply and if we as a nation aren't being unduly harsh on what were once called high-spirited boys, it's virtually impossible to be a parent today and not know a child who is on drugs.

My beautiful, creative, high-spirited son hoarsely whispered, "We're sorry we made you late again".

Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Gulliver's Travels 5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding The adventures of a high-spirited orphan boy: an unbeatable plot and a lot of sex ending in a blissful marriage.

Mr. Bush was a rabble-rouser of sorts, but only in the high-spirited way that fraternity boys a generation earlier had swallowed goldfish or sat on flagpoles.

Finney was the new roaring boy of that high-spirited, colourful decade – cheeky, northern and working-class.

If America saw this married man in his late 30s as a boy — handsome and high-spirited, mischievous, not a criminal — he'd be able to squirm out of his misdeeds with minimal punishment.

Investigators said the disappearance of the beloved statue from Carl Schurz Park appeared, appropriately enough, to be the work of a band of overly high-spirited youths, perhaps latter-day Lost Boys who turned on their own icon.