What is "choirboy"

Usage examples of "choirboy".

At twelve, in the costume of a choirboy, he had lifted a priceless fruitwood Madonna over his head and marched out with a church processional, singing at the top of his lungs.

Roscoe on the right cheekbone and dumped him into a toilet stall, wherein both choirboys switched their attack to the cursing, raging Roscoe Rules who might have shot Pete Zoony to death were it not for Sam Niles keeping a wristlock on his gun hand.

Behind him, idiotically, came a group of choirboys in surplices, waving censers and chanting something too faint for the words to be distinguished.

Steed and Emma, all the choirboys hit the dirt, as 193 INSIDE PHONE BOX The Choirboy grabs the phone, and lifts it up, and Silence.

The vicar and choirboys look on sympathetically, as -- Steed dusts himself off.

The prayers, brief though they had been, the choirboys and then Shane singing so melodiously, the masses of flowers, and the extraordinary beauty of this ancient cathedral had given her a degree of ease from her overwhelming pain.

As they see -- 194 FROM PHONE BOX -- the Choirboy leaves the phone hanging.

He is maybe five feet nine and very slender and has brown eyes and wavy brown hair and a face like a choirboy and a gentle voice.

Guy was swinging back and forth in the mystic give and take of a negro spiritual, hymned by all the choirgirls and choirboys of love.

As the Choirboy nears the PHONE, Steed shouts -- STEED Don't -- don't answer it -- !

The Choirboy can't hear Steed and Emma's shouted warnings, as he lifts his hand up, and -- 192 OUTSIDE Steed sees him reach out, warns the vicar and Choirboys.

Stan Greenlow was no choirboy, but only a monster would stand by and do nothing when his daughter's life was in danger.

Even when Bossie had been restored to parents limp with reaction, but just resilient enough to receive him back with deflationary calm, even when Sergeant Moon and Willie the Twig had ferried all the victorious choirboys back to the bosoms of their families, with flattering accounts of their ingenuity and heroism, calculated to inflame parental pride and disarm parental rage, even when an ambulance had carried away a conscious but incoherent Colin Barren to hospital and strict guard, pending a charge of murder, and a flustered John Stubbs had arrived to complain bitterly about the wanton damage to his wall, the activity within the north walk of the cloister still continued.

Choirboys scarlet cottas and white surplices hung neatly on a rail, there was an old iron-bound trunk, several bell ropes trailed down through the gloom above and a board on the wall informed the world that on 22 July 1936, a peal of five thousand and fifty-eight changes of Bob Minor was rung at the church.

Beyond the memorial the Chapel Royal choirboys in their bright scarlet Tudor costumes are blowing on their blue hands.