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But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo.

From Time Magazine Archive

His face was scarcely human in its fierce unboyish emotion.

From The Lost Prince by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

He ran a good part of the way home and burst into the house with a slam, utterly unlike his usual quiet, unboyish steadiness.

From Still Jim by Morrow, Honoré

"No, sir," he said again; and added with his faint, unboyish smile, "I haven't much to lose anyway."

From Charles Rex by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

If he had had a little fear that he would feel diffident and unboyish among lads of his own age, it vanished at the first contact.

From Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm by Emerson, Alice B.