Sentence examples for like a small boy from inspiring English sources
Mr. Harold smiled like a small boy.
I scare the ducks for something to do, like a small boy.
He would look like a small boy if he stood alongside today's swimmers.
He is reputed to have run through several fortunes like a small boy running through flowerbeds.
He makes an expression, wrinkling his nose, jutting his chin forward, like a small boy, left out.
"I'm sure other people would say, 'Oh, you're as shallow as a puddle.'" He giggles like a small boy.
His perceptions confused, judgment distorted, no less shackled because he believed in the power of that technology, the mathematical accuracy of transistor computation, he even liked the machines with their illusion of control, but liked them as a small boy likes a mechanical toy - never fully trusting, but with no other choice.
"It's difficult to describe what it's like to be a small boy in a British colony on the wrong side of the equator," he said.
A poem like Alphabets recalls a small boy wondering over the alphabet, but showing no precocious mastery - "First it is 'copying out', and then 'English'" - until, as he puts it, "the poet's dream stole over him like sunlight".
They included early, commercially unsuccessful snow globes, like one depicting a small boy being chased by two polar bears, and various implements that seem to have been used for protection against birds, which he said were at one time a scourge of the townspeople.
Once a year there was an open day at the Marshall's plant; visitors (like me as a small boy) came in queues to wonder at the iron founding process and the great machines that made other great machines, and the bustle and glow of it all.
