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“Little Boy Blue”

  1. A nursery rhyme:

    Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,

    The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;

    But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?

    He's under the haystack fast asleep.



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Example Sentences

The "Little Boy Blue" rhyme, it has been urged, had only reference to the butcher's boy.

To know the little boy blue in his domestic life had been my desire for years.

Away like a flash went the little boy blue and alighted in a tree beside the house.

Yet it developed that Little Boy Blue had not wept until he had borne up a long time with great fortitude.

Little Boy Blue checked his grief long enough to stare at Cinderella incredulously.

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