sandboy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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You'd think I'd have had enough of it by now, but as long as the band is cooking and the music is rocking and the audience is laughing, I'm happy as a sandboy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
And Tony, merry as a sandboy, changed the subject, declaring that he had only one desire in life just then, and that was—food.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood
Ay, he’s as cheerful as a sandboy, and somehow, his little bit of scriptur now seems rather consoling than otherwise.”
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
But Young John awoke warm and jolly as a sandboy.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Of course I am;—as jolly as a sandboy," he said.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
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