white-haired boy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It is a heavy cross for even so magnificent a crusader as Indiana's white-haired boy to bear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geoffrey William Lloyd, 38, Stanley Baldwin's onetime white-haired boy, was a Secretary for Mines who knew nothing about mines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prognosticators searching among the unknown contributors for tomorrow's literary white-haired boy will find New Directions' radar scope pretty murky.
From Time Magazine Archive
The white-haired boy evidently approved of her, now that he saw her close to.
From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
"You took in that Mrs. Treble and Double Trouble," whispered Agnes, who rather favored the suit of the white-haired boy.
From The Corner House Girls at School by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)
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