boy-play

Updated: June 21, 2025

It was not to be any trifling little "boy-play" wood-hauling. Harry's father owned a woodsled one of the very few sleds or sleighs in the county which was quite an imposing affair, as to size, at least.

Frank Richard Stockton - What Might Have Been Expected

On, on rode Two Arrows and his companion, and it almost seemed as if both were growing older. It was no sort of boy-play to ride like that, with such tremendous consequences depending upon them. Sile's merry face put on a tremendously sober and earnest expression, while Two Arrows looked as if he were already a chief in command of a war-party. So he was, only that the party was a very small one.

William Osborn Stoddard - Two Arrows: A Story of Red and White