awkward age

"The Awkward Age," fairy godmother and spotless lamb and all the rest of it.

When he had last seen her she was at the awkward age of thirteen.

Such a novel, if it existed, would be a counterpart to The Awkward Age.

It is not for nothing that The Awkward Age is as lonely as it seems to be in its kind.

She had large brown eyes and a long black plait, and was a graceful example of what was formerly called "the awkward age."

Still she gives promise of being attractive when she has passed the awkward age.

Like the rest of his stories, The Awkward Age has little to do with the world of affairs in any group aspect.

He was, indeed, at that awkward age when a well-grown boy is verging on manhood.

Such things were no longer possible when England grew out of her awkward age.

Matilda was emphatically at what is called “an awkward age”; an age more awkward with some girls than with others.