She thought of David, her brilliant, beautiful, beloved boy, and shuddered.

There is a tomb of the beloved boy (eromenos).

For years, long before the deaths of her beloved boys, Marion had wondered if she should divorce Ted.

What am I supposed to tell him when he calls for his beloved boy, and the child does not come as he used to?

Our family of friends will forever miss our beloved boy with a mischievous smile.

He'd use every dirty trick to get back at the man who nailed his beloved boy.

Ruth is later told that she was conceived in a vain attempt to replace the two beloved boys.

It was not my beloved boy who did that.

But the beloved bad boy Sprewell would not be pushed to the periphery or turned into a sidebar.