Sentence examples for peculiar boy from inspiring English sources

By all accounts, he was a precocious, peculiar boy, schooled mainly by his father's assistant, the vicar, Friedrich Müller; young Wilhelm was so attached to Müller that he moved in with him when the latter got a post in the neighboring village (Boring, 1950: 316).

The peculiar boy touched the pretty truck.

So he signs on for a Bollywood musical whose title translates as "Peculiar Dancing Boy," described by its novice producer as "a serious critique of imperialism and the caste system told through the medium of dance".

Unfortunately it isn't long before Mr. Kattan is gesticulating in "Peculiar Dancing Boy," an Indian film described repeatedly as "a serious critique of the caste system told through the medium of dance".

Men who seemed effeminate, girls with tattoos or peculiar jewellery, boys with long hair, could all be swept up.

He has that crystalline, bitter clarity peculiar to the adolescent boy.

And, when considering the coincidental release of this film alongside "Jersey Boys," some peculiar coincidences turned up.

There, in heady profusion, will be the flower of American youth, all of them waiting — with that blend of sullenness and agitation peculiar to teen-age boys — to see whether the special effects will meet their fastidious standards.

He is known as Koala Boy because the peculiar mask that he wore to disguise himself gave him a marsupial look.

The phenomenon wherein there is an excessive number of girls (even higher than the natural sex ratio at birth considered as 950 1000 girls to 1000 boys) born as the second children to families with a previous boy thus seems peculiar to India and dates back to a period when antenatal sex determination was not feasible.

Take J.K., whose Xanga titled "No Fat Chicks" features a peculiar mix of introspection and bully-boy bombast.