Sentence examples for runaway boy from inspiring English sources

Would he have attached himself to a runaway boy?

Consider that Whitney brought a runaway boy home last year and the Hardcastles let him stay.

Upon picking up an injured runaway boy, Tad Bayliss (Chet Allen, Doc and Enochh become targets of the law: the hellish orphanage from which Tad fled is the object of political patronage during a local election.

Mr. D'Arpino has been interested in the sport since reading "My Side of the Mountain," a children's book by Jean Craighead George about a runaway boy and his falcon.

His "What Time Is It There?" was made in tribute to Truffaut and starred Jean-Pierre Léaud, who began his career as the runaway boy in "The 400 Blows".

In 1958, what became a famous Norman Rockwell image-a friendly cop and a would-be runaway boy, a hobo's bindle at his feet, eying each other from adjacent stools at the counter of a diner, with the counterman looking on-illustrated the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.

"I wanted to dance and live, so I took off into the streets by myself with all the other runaway boys.

There, runaway boys and girls stand as embarrassing testimony to the failure of the 21-year-old Islamic revolution to produce a new generation of obedient, chaste "warriors for Islam," untainted by the corrupting influences of the West.

"To me, what was pretty great was it wasn't like she said she saw [something on] CNN about runaway boys in Pakistan.

("I wanted him! I wanted him!" Bogarde declares, in the film's best-remembered scene, as his lawyer hero confesses his desire for a teenage runaway called Boy Barrett).

The movie, which opens a one-week engagement today at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Independent Feature Project, follows the odyssey of two runaway teenage boys scrounging their way across the country, each on his own vaguely defined personal quest.