Citations:starboy

English citations of starboy

• 2010, Rabindranath Maharaj, A Perfect Pledge, Vintage Canada (→ISBN), page 362:

  “Big starboy now. Draw your gun, hombre." “Bam bam,”Jeeves shouted. “Pu-jing, pu-jing.” Chandra slammed her plate on the table and strode off. In the night, Jeeves heard her singing a sad movie song while she was helping her mother ...

• 1974, Jaimy Gordon, Shamp of the City-solo: A Novel

  There were twenty starboys , and I was neither first nor last in magnitude : I was “the turkey-wattled”. I had the benefit of Shipoff's expertise every morning all the same, in his class in Calculus On The Recoil, which balanced ...

• 2015, Austin Clarke, ’Membering, Dundurn (→ISBN)

  And as we know in Canada, and in America, and in the United Kingdom, “starboys” in sports have a way of squeezing through and walking around certain encumbrances put in their way, when they deserve to be curbed by those reservations, ...

• 2011, M. P. Rogers, Lifespanners (→ISBN), page 177:

  “Starboss of the starboys.” Jon smiled. “First class. Helene is figurehead of the new world. You'll have to mend your ways a bit, Manta.” “I'll do all I have to if I can get my mind to accept what's happened.

• 1996, Sue D. Royals, Our Global Village - Sweden (eBook), Lorenz Educational Press (→ISBN), page 20:

  Brothers, called “starboys,” often join the procession wearing tall, white, conical hats with stars. After a big breakfast, the family goes to work or school where smaller versions of the procession are repeated.

• 1996, Marcus Cafagna, Marcus Cafagña, The Broken World: Poems, University of Illinois Press (→ISBN), page 19:

  Or this boy's voice on the radio, rusty and slick as something washed from the sea now that he admits he's no Aphrodite reeling from improvisation and gaudy starboys with glittered eyelids. Some nights I dream of such a fall, my arms ...

• 1988, Michael Thelwell, The Harder They Come: A Novel, Grove Press (→ISBN), page 222:

  He had heard stories of poor boys who were singing this new music, cutting records and becoming starboys. That excited him as much as the music did. When he had first come to town, at the dances nothing was played but rhythm and ...