boyish (adj.)
- adolescent
- airy
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beardless
- boylike
- childish
- childlike
- coltish
- delicate
- diaphanous
- diluted
- ethereal
- fine
- finespun
- flimsy
- frail
- gauzy
- girlish
- gossamer
- gracile
- immature
- insubstantial
- juvenile
- lacy
- light
- maiden
- maidenly
- misty
- papery
- puerile
- puppyish
- puppylike
- rare
- rarefied
- slender
- slight
- slim
- small
- subtle
- svelte
- sylphlike
- tenuous
- thin
- thin-bodied
- threadlike
- vague
- wasp-waisted
- watered
- watery
- weak
- willowy
- wispy
- young
- youthful
Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it:
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history;
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline.